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"HOME SCHOOLING AT RISK!" http://www.InsideTheWeb.com/mbs.cgi/mb1075995 Tony Esolen State Coordinator, Rhode Island Guild of Home Teachers I would like to pass along some urgent information. The Democratic Party has now aligned itself squarely against homeschooling and parental rights. The Democratic National Committee's website (www.dnc.org), endorsed by Al Gore, attacks Republican Presidential nominee George W. Bush for being "soft" on homeschooling. That same website parrots the agenda of the NEA, the nation's biggest teachers' union, insisting that all teachers of all children should be required to possess state certification. That requirement would KILL homeschooling. It renews the threat of HR 6, which homeschoolers helped to kill in 1994. That bill would have required the same thing -- state certification. That means, unless you spend many thousands of dollars and several years taking courses in how to teach, you will not be able to teach your child at home. That bill passed through the House Education Committee with every Democrat voting for it, and every Republican voting against it. George Miller (D-Cal), then chairman of that committee, will become its chairman again if the Democrats win control of the House, and has vowed to reintroduce the bill. This time, the Democrats would not be facing the imminent disaster they faced in the 1994 elections, when Bill Clinton was at his lowest in popularity. They will have little to fear. IT IS DISHEARTENING TO ME THAT A MAJOR POLITICAL PARTY IN THE UNITED STATES SHOULD SO BLITHELY ATTACK THE FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOM OF THE FAMILY. It is disheartening, but not surprising. I teach at an American college;I know the left very well. The Democratic Party is now wholly controlled by the left -- by people who believe that the state, not the family, is the basic institution of society. That is why the left wants taxpayer-financed day care. Former feminist, now Christian professor Elizabeth Genovese, warns that public funded daycare is the next arena of assault on the traditional family, and will make it more and more difficult for tax-strapped families to keep the mother in the home, and more and more economically enticing to leave children with others. That is why the left wants to destroy the Boy Scouts. President Clinton's Justice Department recently decided to examine whether the Boy Scouts should be banned from National Parks, because of their refusal to admit homosexual scoutmasters. Homosexuals do not mince words when they assert that the traditional family, and traditional manhood and womanhood, must be overcome. That is why they despise homeschooling. John Taylor Gatto has written a long article on the fight one small Vermont village when the last one- room, public schoolhouse in the state. The powerful Vermont chapter of the NEA crushed them. When the left cannot abide even a traditional PUBLIC school, what makes us think they will be friendlier with us homeschoolers? To a tyrant any deviation from conformity, no matter how apparently small, is a threat that must be wiped out. We homeschoolers have for a Presidential candidate the governor of the most homeschooling-friendly state in the country, opposed by a party that has cast its lot with: the NEA, the feminists, who despise the traditional family, want nationalized curricula designed to teach children what they should believe. NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO BE COMPLACENT. NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO SAY, "I DON'T UNDERSTAND POLITICS!" or "WHY SHOULD I VOTE FOR THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS?" For Christians especially, the choice is acutely clear. When will we get another opportunity like the present? Hillary Clinton once compared the traditional family to SLAVERY. And so I urge you, contact your friends and relatives in other states --those who are friendly to homeschooling. Ask them to consider, this year, whether the freedom of the family is worth preserving. This election will be close! Of course you must vote as your conscience dictates. But I pray that you will think of homeschooling as a touchstone -- as a way of telling what the two parties, and the two Presidential nominees, stand for. Yours, Tony Esolen State Coordinator, Rhode Island Guild of Home Teachers Rhode Island Guild of Home Teachers P.O. 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