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| [TennesseeConservativeNews] Homeschooling Bill Killed In House Subcommittee Over Concerns That Parents Might Abuse Their Children A pro-homeschooling bill that was endorsed by both state and national homeschooling advocates died in the House Education Administration Subcommittee on Tuesday over concerns that parents might abuse their children without any state oversight.
House Bill 0552 (HB0552), sponsored by Representative Todd Warner (R-Chapel Hill-District 92), would not have repealed any current regulations regarding homeschooling in Tennessee. Instead, the “Family Right to Educational Emancipation Act” or FREE Act” would have created a new independent category for homeschooling that would have been exempt from compulsory school attendance while also keeping homeschool families who might have chosen the new option free of any data collection, reporting, or assessment requirements. According to Warner, this new option would have kept homeschool families from participating in any state program like a future expansion of school vouchers that would include homeschool families or the current TSSAA rules that allow homeschool students to participate in sports at their local public schools. Following testimony on the bill, Committee Chair William Slater (R-Gallatin-District 35) read a few lines from a letter that he received from the Sumner County Juvenile Court Judge in Slater’s district. “It could potentially create a loophole for some rather unscrupulous parents to abuse Tennessee’s educational system,” Slater read. “And our greatest fear is unscrupulous parents when threatened with the notions of mandatory referrals for abuse would remove a child from school and place them under the umbrella of this bill so as to avoid detection.” Slater said that while he understood “the importance of the freedom to homeschool” he nevertheless was inclined to side with the judge’s opinion which sounded strikingly similar to a Stewart County Juvenile Court Judge’s letter shared by Free YOUR Children whose founder wrote the FREE Act. | |
| Posted by:Mercutio |
| #7 Well done, NN2N1. You have much to be proud of. I never home schooled, because even before I fell ill I lacked the discipline, so I admire anyone who can do it effectively. But I enriched the heck out the trailing daughters and whichever of their friends came home with them on any particular day, challenging them to meet my standards for both learning and work. I wish I’d got my hands on final daughter while she was still in school — td #1 only met her when both were in their mid-twenties. She is bright, but autistic and both dyslexic and dys-numeric(?). The public school where she grew up was not prepared for her; unfortunately, her mother also was not prepared for all that while home schooling, thinking the child lazy rather than learning disabled. Coupled with severe health issues, final daughter never got past eighth grade in terms of formal education. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2025-03-12 23:24 |
| #6 Outcome Based Education, perhaps. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2025-03-12 22:34 |
| #5 OBE? Order of the British Empire??? |
| Posted by: Clusing Speaking for Boskone4956 2025-03-12 19:05 |
| #4 Given that we have a good record now of teachers sleeping with their students, the concern is OBE. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-03-12 17:10 |
| #3 Liberals/Democrats hate the idea of Homeschooling, because it by-passes the 12 years of NEA training and indoctrination process.. NO MY BRAG HAT ON Started Homeschooling ours, while I was doing Rent-a-Geek work at Ft. Bragg. 2 went on to be Mid-level sector managers, and the 3rd made Fireman of the Year recently for a county in the Metro Atlanta area. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2025-03-12 14:27 |
| #2 "I slept with my teacher. Oh, and I'm home schooled" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2025-03-12 11:44 |
| #1 Homeschooling Bill Killed In House Subcommittee Over Concerns That Parents Might Abuse Their Children Reality sucks. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-03-12 10:58 |