Standards Of Practice

By Kleinheider Posted on May 26, 2008 at 10:19 am

Rep. Stacey Campfield points out that Governor Phil Bredesen’s veto of a bill exempting Mennonite schools from fire codes in a symptom of a far larger problem:

This is an issue for many home school groups as well. The cost to renovate a church building up to the standards of a school out weigh the benefit they might get from the limited use they need. The fire standard for a school is much higher then it is for a church or assembly hall.

Some home schoolers are also being hassled by local fire inspectors. I had e mail from one person who had a fire inspector show up at her home (Where she home schooled her three children.) The inspector wanted to inspect her house to see if it met the fire code of a school (sprinklers etc.). She refused to let him in and after a discussion he relented because she had three kids and not five. If it had been five then she would have had to meet the standards of a school. I talked with some home school leaders and found this is not an isolated incident.

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