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Pam said:
But Maryland has good homeschooling laws (so I hear) and what about places
like Virginia or West Virginia

Nope. Maryland has very *nosy* laws. Portfolio reviews at least 2 times a
year teaching 5 subjects and teaching methods, written work and progress
subject to review by a teacher. They can be gotten around (the laws) but it
takes a very strong person to put up with thier BS (or a strict school at
homer) I think it is extremely stressful to unschool in this state. West
virginia has a similar process with the reviews but I believe they can go to
your house and "observe instruction" and I think they also test. MD is much
better that it used to be mmany years ago, thanks to The Maryland Home
Education Association and no thanks to H$LDA.
I can't wait to move to New Mexico!
Elissa, who will soon be singing
Yippee - Kai - Yay!
-----Original Message-----
From: Pam Hartley <pamhartley@...>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, January 28, 2002 1:09 AM
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] Digest Number 153


>But Maryland has good homeschooling laws (so I hear) and what about places
>like Virginia or West Virginia or... the other 30-something states older
>than California, whose names/entry-to-the-union-numbers I never memorized
in
>school, another educational failure story. <g>
>
>I don't know if I'm right, I just don't know that I'm wrong yet. ;) Oh, and
>I didn't mean just homeschooling laws with California, I meant law-laws in
>general -- we have regulations to cover our regulations here. I'm pretty
>sure it's still legal to breathe, but who can keep up enough to be sure?
>
>Pam, wonderer
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>From: dacunefare@...
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] Digest Number 153
>Date: Sun, Jan 27, 2002, 9:41 PM
>
>
>California isn't trussed up at all compared to places like
>Massachussetts, where homeschooling is specifically NOT private education
>and
>conducted at the whim of local school boards, or Pennsylvania, or or or...
>
>Looking closely at the laws and not laws, I tend to agree with Sandra, it's
>about where lawmakers have been settled the longest. In general. :)
>
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><<But Maryland has good homeschooling laws (so I hear) >>
>I thought they had a bunch of testing.
>Maryland and Delaware seem to be the places worst about pressing pregnant
>women to apply for spot in a preparatory daycare center. So maybe they
don't
>have many homeschooling laws because just waiting until kindergarten is so
>scandalous that the folks there haven't gotten to homeschooling much yet.

Well,It's not quite that bad!! <g>
We do have an option to join an umbrella school and most are very
understanding of unschooling. This past "school year" was my first county
review and it was miserable. I greatly resented having to "prove" to the
gumnint that I was an okay parent. BLECH!!!
As to the area: We have many many unschooling (to them) families and many
relaxed eclectics. The HS community here is very large and very organized.
Secular HSers and Religious HSers rarely run into each other and when they
do, the religion is rarely discussed. I started an unschooling support group
in my immediate a few years ago and while it has attracted many people,
there are probably 5 families who actually "get it" about unschooling. I
think there are many more out there in other parts of the DC area but most
have older kids and have started to move away from support group activities.
Too bad, since they are so important to the new comers!
Elissa, who will soon be singing
Yippee - Kai - Yay!