Washington State Senate Bill 5020 – Immediate Action Required

Parental choice alert!

Another attempt to take control of our children. Currently parents can wait until their children are 8 years old before required to participate in formal education. In 2022 an effort was made to change that 8 year old requirement to 5 years old but it failed. Not to waste a good opportunity for more control they are coming back shooting for Age 6 as the new standard. 

Summary of SB 5020: This bill will bring the mandatory age of attending school to 6 years of age.

– it removes the parental decision of when a child should be placed into public or private school or home-based instruction

– it is another step in allowing government to dictate decisions on raising our children

– home schooled students 8+ years old will have to complete a standardized achievement test

– Here’s a link to the bill itself: https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5020&Initiative=false&Year=2023

What can you do about it?

• Click this link and complete the form to share your views. You can just state opposition or you can supply written comments or you can schedule to testify in person or on-line: https://app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifier/Add?chamber=Senate&mId=30290&aId=148813&caId=20212&tId=3
• If you can submit written testimony or testify via zoom, that carries more weight. You must sign up by 12:30 pm January 11th to testify in writing or remotely with the committee when it meets at 1:30 pm.

Who’s sponsoring this parental control reduction bill?

https://www.facebook.com/SenatorLisaWellman   Feel free, if you are a Facebook user, to share your thoughts with her. Here’s her Senate link: https://senatedemocrats.wa.gov/wellman/

Share this with everyone you think cares about another attempt to usurp parental choice.