We recently went to the Capitol Building, which was really neat! There were lots of flags with regiment numbers on them that stood for which Civil War battles they were in. The House of Representatives was presented with a Bill that would mean we homeschoolers would have to be tested by the teachers in school and present a porfolio of our work. Right now we take our testing at home. If this Bill passes, we would have to be tested in the schools and, if they thought that we did not do well enough, we would have just one more year of homeschooling. If we still didn't improve, then we wouldn't be able to homeschool anymore. We would have to go to school. One thing that we learned is that there are 4000 homeschoolers in NH. Some of it was amusing; the person who was in charge said in the rules that, "There is no applause!" but everyone still applauded. Then she said, "Control yourselves, or I WILL CLEAR THE HALLS!" It was pretty funny! This field trip to the public hearing was a good way to see in person how a Bill is put into place and to demonstrate that we are not in favor.
By: Stella (Sis)
AGE: Almost 9
2 comments:
So does this mean that the bill is passed or dod the Home-schoolers win??
Lyd, we win! The bill will not pass and we are very glad that we were one of the people that showed up to demonstrate that we WERE NOT in favor!
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