Nanci Kuykendall

>Wouldn't it depend more on Washington's homeschooling
>laws? Seems to me if the parents give permission for
>her to be there, then she'd be a Washingon resident
>and Nanci would be responsible for her education.
>Tia

Right you are Tia. Thank you everyone for your advice
and concern. I talked with a person who has many many
years of experience being involved in legal lobbying
and office holding, as an unschooling parent and
grandparent. She told me what our best course of
action is and I wanted to share it with you all, in
case anyone could use the information.

By not enrolling in shcool in CA for the fall and
informing the school there that she has moved, she
will remove herself from the California system in the
most painless manner possible. Then by moving up here
and my filing of a Letter of Intent with the state for
Homeschooling, she will be free of the system up here
and can make her own choices about what she wants to
persue. She said, to be on the safe side, have a
notarized statement from her parents making me "Legal
Guardian for the purposes of Education" but that
frankly, no one every checks those. Simple,
thankfully, and very painless.

So she is headed home to pack and take care of some
things there. She really feels the need to have some
closure with her twin sisters, for whom she is the
primary caretaker. She has made the VERY difficult
decision of leaving them behind to persue a life of
her own, as she cannot truly change their situation or
parents, and would only hurt herself by staying. I am
totally sympathetic to how hard this is for her to do,
having had a similar situation of losing her when she
was about the age here sisters are now. She wants to
do what I did, and get herself set up to be able to
have a place for them to come to if/when they can and
need it, to visit or to live.

So in a month or so I will be making arrangements for
her to come back up here to stay, and she is so happy,
because after all summer here, being treated
respectfully and as an equal, she was dreading going
home again. It's easier to accept horrible realities
if you don't really know what you are missing, and
this is the first year I have been able to wrest her
away from the rest of the family for the entire
summer. Well actually the first year she was ballsy
enough to say "I'm not coming back, I'm staying here
with Nanci all summer." They grumbled and growled and
nagged and guilted, but we stood firm, and supported
each other. I can't tell you how excited I am to have
her FINALLY coming to live with us, coming home, as it
feels to me.

Nanci K.

Sharon Rudd

CONGRATULATIONS NANCI

Sharon of the Swamp

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--- In AlwaysLearning@y..., Nanci Kuykendall <aisliin@y...>
wrote:

I can't tell you how excited I am to have
> her FINALLY coming to live with us, coming home, as it
> feels to me.
>
> Nanci K.


I'm so glad it's worked out for you and her. Congrats!

Meghan