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>> New efforts to regulate

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homeschooling in Illinois have

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touched off a heated debate.

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Backers say Illinois is one of

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12 states without any home

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schooling regulations. new

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bill aims to change that by

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requiring families to register

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with their local school

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district. If they plan to

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homeschool their children.

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Supporters say it's aimed at

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ensuring kids are getting the

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education they need and are

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better protected from

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potential neglect. Here's a

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bit from a hearing last week

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in Springfield.

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>> This bill is written in

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part by people who were

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homeschooled and get the need

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to balance champ children's

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rights. parents freedom to

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choose how they educate their

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kids. It provides a safe base

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line to protect kids from the

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small minority of parents who

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use homes going as a way to

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hide abuse or neglect their

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children. This bill will

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intimidate and discourage

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parents from choosing this

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much better option for their

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children.

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>> This bill in polls,

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additional burdens on already

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stretched local schools,

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police departments and courts.

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This bill would require school

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districts to manage increase

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administrative tasks related

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schooling.

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>> Joining us now with more

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are Shuffield say

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homeschooling parent and via

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zoom, Democratic State

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Representative Tara Costa.

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Howard, thank you both for

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joining us. Latasha Fields it

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like to begin with you.

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Please. Youth been

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homeschooling your children

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for 18 years after you took

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your eldest out of public

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school. What motivated you to

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start homeschooling? Yes, a

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pleasure to be here. Thank you

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so much for having me on.

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>> Well, for us, it was a call

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of God faith as Christians. it

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was about the type of shipping

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a biblical worldview. We have

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for them out of his She's a

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home-schooled. The college

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credit. We just graduated our

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second oldest in May of 2024

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and he's entering training to

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welding program with 2 more

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Fifteen-year-old signing the 9

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year-old daughter. Yes. And

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and so we also have a

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microscope. So at 10 this I

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have a lot of babies Michael

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and yes, absolutely. Yes.

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Representative Koster Howard,

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you know, we mentioned some of

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those concerns. Folks raised

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about overreach. That

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includes.

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>> You know, mandating certain

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elements of the curriculum.

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What exactly does this bill

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called for students to be

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taught?

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>> Actually, that is a ready.

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The current law here in

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Illinois that they have to be

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tied language Arts sorry,

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Science, Math, social studies,

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health, physical education.

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already current laws. that's

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nothing new.

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>> You know, the session

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fields Do you think any of

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these sorts of registration

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requirements, for example?

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affect you and and other

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parents who home school. Yes,

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absolutely. And so the our

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proponents of this bill claim

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that is just formality is just

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a farm. What we're looking at

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the bill is not just a this

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this bill, the 60 page Bill

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will entail truancy penalty,

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criminality, parents that

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don't comply would have 30

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days in jail. They would have

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$500 fines and also with the

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whole idea of the Corcoran,

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Kentucky Education review, the

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current way that they will

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allow is we don't have to

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produce an educational per and

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it does cite then we would

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have to satisfy the public

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education. And so because of

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will purchase at a 2021,

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company at the LGBTQ+ ideology

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and the LGBT history that in

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itself is religious

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persecution forest and

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violates our First Amendment.

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need to produce RC car. Have

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government look at educational

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per fully out. Another process

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in bill. This very disturbing

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is that the bill states that

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Illinois has a fundamental

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goal for every student in the

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state of Illinois that their

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educational development is

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foot is to serve the public

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purpose of the state. And so

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we as homeschool parents, we

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do not educate our children to

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some of the purple public

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purpose of the state. So that

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in itself tells us that our

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children, according to this

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bill, will be state property

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in that parallel slavery with

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families have no of timing

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where my ancestors had no

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autonomy. And so we don't want

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our children to become

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property of the state. So

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there's a lot disingenuous in

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this bill. There's a lot of

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egregious check colony and

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things in this bill that we do

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not stand in terms of

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registration as Illinois

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stands, there is volunteer

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registry. So we don't have to

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be forced to register our home

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school programs.

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Howard. You know how about

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that? You know, tackling at

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least first that the idea of

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sort of mandating these

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elements of the curriculum is

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that the intention of this

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bill?

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is for the subjects to be

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taught. There's nothing in

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this bill that requires

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mandated curriculum that is

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taught in public school. So

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that is misinformation. That

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is incorrect. That is part of

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why some of these pieces were

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written in a way to actually

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give homeschool families the

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opportunity to be as creative

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as many of them are in how

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they teach in the end, as long

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as they're teaching the

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subjects that all children in

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the state of Illinois are

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required to be taught is

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agenda high level. There's

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nothing that requires the

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curriculum that is in public

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schools as far the criminality

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that simply not true.

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Currently truancy lodge have

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that are already built into

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the state law. So if there's a

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concern about the way the

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truancy laws are written,

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that's a different subject.

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What the declaration form does

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is make sure that we know that

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kids are alive where they are.

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they're OK and that's what the

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declaration form does. You

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know, Latasha Fields, how

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about that? You supporters say

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this can help prevent

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potential abuse and neglect

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>> students who are being

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homeschooled, although there

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isn't any evidence to back up

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that it's happening at higher

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rates. It's still certainly

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can happen in there. They

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don't have the eyes of of

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teachers or other school

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officials on them the way

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students in a public school

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might. You know what's your

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take on that? Well, I believe

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that as many of us over 48,000

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of us in a state of Illinois

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submitted witness leave, said

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we disagree.

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know, that there's any idea

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that homeschool students are

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being abused. The public

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school system has failed. So

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this this bill is very

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disingenuous. We have right

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now over 1000 allegations in

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Chicago, public schools and as

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of 2024 this pektor general

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say there's over 400 cases. So

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my question to represent a

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casa, how or what are you

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doing about the allegation in

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the abuses in Chicago public

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school system? Because it is

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all about a farm where these

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babies are not being protected

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in the system that they govern

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in the system, that they have

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jurisdiction over. So that is

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that it's appalling. And so we

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as home schoolers, we do not

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need a system that's already

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broken that out with it. That

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has already proven.

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And we talk about proficiency.

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proficiency in the state of

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Illinois. There's 1.9 million

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students and only 39% of those

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babies can read grade level in

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only 29% or 28% are proficient

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in math. And then you go to

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Chicago public school system

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for the black babies. They're

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doing even worse is

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unconscionable. Only 20% of

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black children, a Chicago

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public school system can read

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on 11 9% are proficient in

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math. So we talk about warning

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kids have a quality education

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homeschoolers far exceed that.

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expectation. Black students

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that are home schooled have 15

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to 42% points higher than

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public school peers. So I'm

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all I'm in agreement with

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Representative Koster how we

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want quality education. That's

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why we're home schooling.

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That's why we have exit from

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government education system.

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a pursue like we're being

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punished for the failure of

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government education.

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Representative, how about

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that? I mean, with this at

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all, you know, go after, you

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know, quote, unquote,

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homeschooling parents.

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>> Not only that, we don't

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believe that it does in any

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way, shape or form. In fact,

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some of the issues that were

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arrayed, I think she's

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correct. We want to make sure

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that all kids have a high

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quality education. And if you

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actually take a look at the

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statistics, on the state Board

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of Education website. Our 8th

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graders are doing great. We're

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seeing those numbers come

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around for our public for our

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students here L in Illinois.

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That's a good thing. But I

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would like to address the

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comment that she made

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regarding abuse in Chicago

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public School. We have laws on

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the book that require anyone

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comes in contact with our

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children in our school setting

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to be have a criminal

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background check. If you are

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being homeschooled, there's

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nothing. You are not subject

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to any laws. I want to be

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clear.

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>> 38 states.

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>> Had this. Requirement on

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the books. She declared that

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you are homeschooling your

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children. 38 states.

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>> We here in Illinois are an

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outlier. We know that this is

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happening in Florida,

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Virginia, Louisiana, they are

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not making the same

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complaints. We outlier heelan

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here in Illinois where we have

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0 regulations and so we are

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not here to punish anyone. In

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fact, we want to applaud those

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families that are being

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transparent and are doing it

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that so well. But frankly, the

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statistics that are being re

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cited, there's no statistic

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out there that actually says

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that home school students are

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better. That's actually

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accurate. We don't know how

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many homeschool students there

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actually are here in the state

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of Illinois because they don't

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register. They don't have to

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declare anything. And so we

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don't really know how many

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children there are. So we have

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no data that actually backs

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up. What is being said. What

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we do is that we have children

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who have passed away with died

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at the hands abusive parents.

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That is what we want act.

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>> And representative, I know

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we've got a much more that we

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could possibly say about this,