Illinois Homeschoolers – Eight Reasons Not to Register
Illinois Homeschoolers – Eight Reasons Not to Register
By Harvey Bluedorn, New Boston, Illinois
1. Because there is no requirement to register in Illinois. Period. Administrators attempt to impose their will upon individuals through intimidation, harassment and coercion. They invent requirements which have no foundation in law. When our freedoms are infringed upon by government bureaucrats, they become emboldened to take the matter another step.
2. Because voluntary registration sets an administrative precedent. Judges are inclined to enforce administrative rules (however improper) when administrators can demonstrate large-scale (not majority) compliance. Administrators use such compliance as their main argument for the legislature to make their invention law. Legislators will give administrators what they want if the administrators can demonstrate large scale compliance already. If there was large scale resistance, it would take stronger arguments to get them to impose universal compliance by statute. It is far easier to refuse them in the initial stage than it is to fight them in the final stage.
3. Because what you do affects everyone else. You may not be convinced that registration is inadvisable or wrong. But many other homeschoolers are so convinced. Your registration is a large share of the argument used by bureaucrats with legislators to pass a universal compulsory registration law.
4. Because registration may be used for dual enrollment without your knowledge. We know this happens in other states. The school district receives appropriations of thousands of dollars for your child while all educational efforts and expenses are your own, along with the burden of administrative compliance.
5. Because the notorious “statement of assurance” which once circulated in Illinois was a legal contract which placed you under the administrative authority of the public school system. Once you signed, your legal status changed from a free (non-government) school to a government school.
6. Because under God the civil government is instituted for purposes of protection, while the family is instituted for purposes of nurturing. These are two distinct jurisdictions of authority. The civil government has no authority under God for education, and is thereby usurping authority of the family in this regard.
7. Because it is easier to defend ground you hold, than to fight to regain ground you’ve lost. Illinois is the free-most state in the nation–perhaps in the world–with regard to private education. We must maintain this ground. We must remain free of government tentacles of regulation. Registration is the first step of regulation.
8. Because you must take a stand somewhere. Where are you going to draw the line? Registration? Approval (licensing)? Certification? Accounting (tests, portfolios, interviews, monitors)? Full regulation (bureaucratic control, fines, imprisonments, removal of children for non-compliance)? Registration is the act which opens the door to everything else. Have you ever seen a bureaucracy shrink or a governmental budget decrease? If you don’t keep the first domino from falling, you can’t keep the others from falling, and once they have fallen, you can’t put humpty dumpty together again. The place to draw the line is at the first domino. Resist all attempts at registration.
Because you are fighting for your own rights, freedoms and liberties.
Because you are fighting for your children’s lives
Because you are fighting for the cause of God.
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August 10th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
The Regional Superintendent of Schools Joe Williams entered our home with the McHenry County Sherrif without a search warrent. They on purpose terrorized our children and me going around our home banging on the windows and trying to open the doors.
This is outrageous and we must stand together to fight this attempt at removal of our rights.
August 18th, 2010 at 3:52 pm
Forgive me for the mistake.
Joe Williams is the assistant superintendent of schools and he also holds the post of truency officer.It seems like a conflict of interest to me and to many others we have spoke to.
But he is up for election to the post of superintendent in november. no one running aganist him so i guess he has a good chance and will unfortunatly be the superintendent of schools soon enough.
Numerous examples of harassment by him and his assistant.
I am preparing a formal complaint to Lisa Madigans office and we will hopefully findout if entering someones attached garage with the intent to frighten children and adults is considered a violation of our civil rights.
Another example of wasting tax payers money and not adding any value to the citizens of Illinois.
August 28th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
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Why was the Cook County Suburban Regional School Superintendent position eliminated and not others?
May 19th, 2010 10:04 am CT
The Illinois General Assembly has spoken and the Cook County Suburban Regional School Superintendent’s office has been abolished.
Charles Flowers,(D) the current regional schools superintendent, has been charged with stealing about $400,000 from the office and is not seeking re-election in November. The Democrats had refused to slate anyone for the office believing that it was a political time bomb. The media has reacted positively to this news that the office, which is considered unnecessary, will no longer be draining money from the taxpayers in suburban Cook County.
The legislation, which was signed by Governor Patrick Quinn (D), transfers all of the duties of the office to the State Board of Education. For several years, politicians from both parties have argued that the State Board of Education could also be eliminated. Now that office will have the duties formerly reserved for the Cook County Regional Superintendent.
Unfortunately, the legislation only affects suburban Cook County.
The regional office of education is responsible for issuing teacher certification, holding ongoing instructional sessions for educators and certifying new school bus drivers, among other things – tasks that easily can be handled by other government agencies according to proponents of the new law.
Many Cook County suburban school districts have arranged to issue teaching certificates on their own because they found Flowers’ office inept or useless.
The City of Chicago was once included under the authority of the Cook County regional schools office but after a scandal in the early 1990s that office was also abolished. A regional office, serving only the suburbs of Cook County, was created about a year later.
Amazingly, we still have Regional Superintendents in DuPage and other counties. Yet nobody has complained about those offices or made the same arguments that the tasks can be handled by the State Board of Education of the local school districts.
It seems inconsistent. Either Regional Superintendents are needed or they are not.
Dennis Brennan is an attorney in Illinois and writes a daily column for the examiner.com