IL Homeschoolers-Eight Reasons NOT to Register

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IL Homeschoolers----Eight Reasons Not to Register

(copyright By Harvey Bluedorn, New Boston, IL Permission given)

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 unadvisable 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.

Contact the Bluedorns at Trivium Pursuit if you have comments or questions on this article.

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