Relief

As you know I was extremely about <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/714-Homeschool-Alert.html" target="_new">SB 291</a> and its consequences to Home Schooling. Well the committe finally heard the bill and the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/02/15/build/state/20-home-school-bill.inc" target="_new">news</a> is in.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Home-school parents and children sang a thankful prayer in the Capitol rotunda on Monday after lawmakers killed a measure that would have imposed new state regulations on home education. <br />n<br />nCheers erupted through the building when the Senate Education and Cultural Resources Committee shelved the bill within minutes after a 2 1/2-hour hearing ended. The bill drew about 800 opponents to the building, far too many for the large hearing room, so they scattered throughout the Capitol halls — camped out on all four floors in front of monitors airing the hearing on closed-circuit TV.</blockquote><br />n<br />nThis is such a relief. We were particularly concerned about the part of the bill that would have made home schooling developmental disability children like our son illegal. Killing of this bill is all my Darling Wife wanted for Valentines Day and I guess she got it.<br />n<br />n<b>Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. James Russell Lowell</b><br />n<br />