It appears the celebration about SB 136 being tabled today may be short-lived. The sponsor is still determined to find a way to account for those slippery homeschoolers in Illinois, the ones that could "slip through the cracks," as one legislator warned at Tuesday's hearing. Why do we think that?
State Senator Ed Maloney was featured today on Dana Loesch's St. Louis talk show and during the last minute of the interview, here's what was said:
Dana asked the question: "Will this legislation go away?"
Maloney responded with “"SB 136 has gone away. We will have a discussion relative to, primarily the truancy issue and how we can identify that and ah with all parties involved and hopefully we can come up some way ah some ah fashioning some sort of legislation that will be able to identify those students without invading anybody's privacy"
Again we call for Senator Maloney to make a public statement that he has abandoned all efforts to register homeschoolers in Illinois during the 97th General Assembly. If that doesn't happen, we can assume it will continue, just as he promised a week ago.
Since this afternoon, nearly 500 persons have agreed with those appealing to Senator Maloney to stop this effort in earnest. The letter is HERE.
