Oberweis Congratulates U.S. Rep. Mark Harris (R-NC) for His Bill Protecting Homeschoolers, Vowing to Co-Sign and Vote for The Bill When He’s Elected to Congress
In a letter today to U.S. Rep. Mark Harris (R-NC), congressional candidate Jim Oberweis declared his intention to co-sponsor Congressman Harris’ “Home School Graduation Recognition Act” if elected to Congress.
Many universities are now requiring home schooled students to produce excessive documentation and submit to additional testing before being admitted, despite having legally graduated from high school. “In doing so, those universities are making an unjust statement with political undertones,” declared Oberweis.
“Therefore, I have today written to Congressman Harris to let him know I am willing to co-sponsor his bill if I end-up joining him in Congress soon. I commended Mark for introducing the ‘Home School Graduation Recognition Act’,” said Oberweis.
Oberweis, a former state senator and Senate GOP Whip, believes home schooled students are a likely victim of politics. “National teachers unions, run by left-wing activists, have never smiled upon home schooling. They perceive those home-schooling parents a threat not only to their union’s organizational power, but to their loss of influence over developing a student’s value system. Long before COVID, many parents made a decision to take charge of their own children’s education when DEI indoctrination began replacing scientific and historical truth in our school classrooms. Millions of parents said ‘not-so-fast’, and determined they could help their kids achieve academic excellence without the dosages of left-wing indoctrination,” said candidate Oberweis. “Also, children’s safety was becoming another factor in homeschooling’s growing popularity.”
“Now, universities are discriminating against home schooled students who have passed all the required testing, and have already legally graduated high school. To impose additional testing on home schoolers as a precondition for college admission is misguided and unjust,” he said.
Oberweis has had first-hand, family experience with this situation: “My son-in-law, Josh Manion, was home schooled, and the University of Illinois would not admit him until he took additional courses at a community college. This is despite the fact that he’s extremely bright, was well schooled, and successfully graduated in keeping with the law and curriculum provided by the state for all students. Josh went on to graduate from MIT.”
“We cannot allow politics to be used as a cudgel to beat well-performing students into compliance with the left’s vision of a scholastic DEI utopia,” said Oberweis. “Therefore, I give my unconditional support to this bill, which gives the force of law to a fair college admissions process for homeschooled students.”
The bill enjoys the support of the Home School Legal Defense Association, and the U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee, of which Rep. Mark Harris is a member.
“I wrote to let the Congressman know that this is a bill that I stand foursquare behind, and I would be honored to co-sponsor and vote for this bill should I join him in Congress,” said Oberweis.
