Recently Illinois Senator Ed Maloney (D) introduced SB136 which would require “the parents or legal guardians of children attending non-public schools, a defined term, or private or parochial schools to annually register their children with the State Board of Education, in conformance with procedures prescribed by the State Board of Education.”
Basically homeschoolers and anyone else who has deemed the public education system a failure would have to register their children with the State, since apparently Senator Maloney believes “that since the State was responsible for the education of our children, the State should know who was being homeschooled,” according to Pastor James McDonald who met with the Senator along with several homeschooling advocates.
I’ll tell you what, Senator Maloney… Everyone can register for your harassment (because you know that’s what’s coming; an endless barrage of harassment and “investigations) for not participating in your failing public schools.
In return, however, the people who do register should get a tax credit (not a deduction) seeing as you now know exactly who isn’t using the system and considering how unfair it is for them to have to pay for a system they aren’t using.
Whaddya say?
Yeah. Didn’t think so.