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LEGISLATIVE GREEN SLIP ALERT
2/6/10
Increase Compulsory
School Age - HB301
Details are given below
PLEASE FORWARD THIS INFORMATION
Call the Legislative Message line in
Frankfort ( 1-800-372-7181 1-800-372-7181 ).
TTY Message Line 800-896-0305 800-896-0305
Tell the operator: "I want to leave a message for the HOUSE
EDUCATION COMMITTEE MEMBERS: I am opposed to House Bill 301 and urge
you NOT to pass it out of committee.
Increasing the compulsory age for school attendance from 16 to 18 years of age
has a number of critical problems:
- It will
cost the state untold amounts of additional money, which will have to be
collected from taxpayers. Kentucky already has a significant budget
deficit, so legislators should be looking for ways to save, not spend more.
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- Extended
compulsory schooltime has not been shown to improve overall "education" of a
given population.
- It will
try to force older teenagers into a situation that they may not want to be
in and some of these unwilling students may disrupt classroom proceedings,
disturbing those who want to be there to learn, as well as putting
additional behavior management burdens on the teacher.
- It
violates principles of freedom and personal choice that are inherent to a
free society. You cannot MAKE someone learn.
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- This is
most likely a ploy to get more warm bodies in the seats to get more Federal
money - which only puts KY on the hook to the Federal government and allows
the Federal government to control KY schools.
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