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Young lobbyists push for home-school, parental rights

Six young men in suits sit around a table in the library in the Capitol. One hands a short stack of white papers to another. He takes a brief look at the cover sheet, looks back up and begins pumping his fist and mouthing, â€œYeah!â€

Itâ€™s a bill, just filed by state Sen. Donna Campbell, that the team of lobbyists â€” some of the youngest registered in the state â€” has been fighting for since the Legislature convened in January.

The group of home-schooled graduates, ages 19 to 23, call themselves the Watchmen, a reference to Isaiah 62:6: â€œOn your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen; all the day and all the night they shall never be silent.â€

They lobby on behalf of the Texas Home School Coalition â€” and an estimated 300,000 home-schoolers in Texas â€” and they have been anything but silent this week, making the rounds to House and Senate offices and speaking at a Senate committee hearing. ...

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