Maryland Legislature Kills Bill to Collect
Home-Schoolers Information
Posted By: Judy W., 3/19/2022 7:46:31 AM
After pressure from Maryland parents, Democrat Delegate Sheila Ruth (Baltimore) has announced that she will not longer push the bill she initially sponsored to collect information on households homeschooling their children. • Why the bill is dead: Ruth’s office has been inundated for weeks by irate parent’s calling and emailing to voice their opposition to the proposed legislation. • What she’s saying: “There’s no technical reason that I can’t withdraw the bill, but right now, given the toxic environment around this situation, the best possible outcome for everyone is for this bill to die a quiet death … Introducing the bill may have been a mistake
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The sponsor of this intrusive bill homeschooled her own children. Yet she somehow thought that homeschoolers would welcome the "help" of a council of homeschoolers and government officials. She had no idea of the anger and power of irate home schooling parents. (I am pretty sure that homeschoolers will be targeted by the federal government before too long.)