Brendalee McGovern

Dear Un Schooling Families

How do you explain to your local Public Education board (especially if you at one time had a child in the public school system) as to how you base your day
when they want an account of your children's daily educational plans
how we as parents assess the children reaching their goals so you can move forward
and so forth

[email protected] wrote:


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Topics in this digest:

1. Re: Long-Newbie with a relatively clean slate
From: "soggyboysmom"
2. Re: Re: Newbie with a relatively clean slate
From: "Lisa H"
3. Re: Re: Re: Newbie with a relatively clean slate
From: Deb Lewis

4. Re: Re: Re: Newbie with a relatively clean slate
From: Danielle Conger


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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 20:31:28 -0000
From: "soggyboysmom"
Subject: Re: Long-Newbie with a relatively clean slate


--- In [email protected], wrote:
>
> > Pippy Peepee Poopypants by any chance? The inventor-turned-evil-
> > villain of volume 4 (I think) of Captain Underpants? lol
>
> Actually, it was Professor Pippy P. Poopypants. But you were
close. My mother was horrified that not only did I allow my
children to read these gross books but that we actually found them
funny! I think the author is ingenious!
>
Yes they generally use his middle initial P. but check the books
again, that P. stands for PeePee. Really.
http://www.pilkey.com/showquiz.php?id=19 is a quiz on trivia from
the book and one question is what is the prof's middle name and
PeePee is the right answer.

We're knee deep in Captain Underpants - but then again we've also
got an underwear ball in the living room - made of DS' old, too
small, little boy briefs. The size of a volleyball but soft and
weighty almost like a medicine ball. MIL still chuckles every time
she sees it - yet another sign of her wonderfully wacky son and
grandson.





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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 00:22:59 -0500
From: "Lisa H"
Subject: Re: Re: Newbie with a relatively clean slate


>>>>>>Do we just "pick" a "grade" she is in based on
her age? <<<<<
Grades are for meat and eggs, not children.
Why do you feel the need for a grade?
~Kelly
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In NY we need to identify a grade in our paperwork for the state. It is required to file paperwork the year a child turns six by December. Some folks identify their child as first grade while others indicate kindergarten.
Lisa Heyman


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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 09:15:17 -0700
From: Deb Lewis

Subject: Re: Re: Re: Newbie with a relatively clean slate


***In NY we need to identify a grade in our paperwork for the state.***

While I feel some irritation at my own state requirements I'm glad to be
living where things are fairly simple.
The county sup requires notification each year if a family is
homeschooling but the law does not specify what the notification must
include. Mine says "I'll be homeschooling my child for the 2004-2005
school year." I do not include his name or age.

The law says I have to keep an attendance record and make it available if
asked. I always wait until asked.

The law also says I have to have an organized course of study and cover
what the schools would cover but there is no provision in the law that
would allow the county superintendent (or anyone) to ask for or about the
course of study or what we're covering.

No portfolio, no assessment, no testing.

If any nice unschoolers would like to move to Deer Lodge, Montana (and
heck! who wouldn't?) there's a house for sale across the street.

Deb Lewis, in the balmy rockies where it's fifty degrees this AM and the
Blue Jays have moved in on the peanut butter feeders.


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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 12:44:51 -0500
From: Danielle Conger
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Newbie with a relatively clean slate

Aaaaah, Deb, you paint an idyllic picture. If only I didn't know about
all the dog pooh across the street... *eg*

--Danielle

http://www.danielleconger.com/Homeschool/Welcomehome.html



Deb Lewis wrote:

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> No portfolio, no assessment, no testing.
>
> If any nice unschoolers would like to move to Deer Lodge, Montana (and
> heck! who wouldn't?) there's a house for sale across the street.
>
> Deb Lewis, in the balmy rockies where it's fifty degrees this AM and the
> Blue Jays have moved in on the peanut butter feeders.
>



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lmanathome

--- In [email protected], Brendalee McGovern
<Brendalee80@y...> wrote:
> Dear Un Schooling Families
>
> How do you explain to your local Public Education board (especially
if you at one time had a child in the public school system) as to how
you base your day
> when they want an account of your children's daily educational
plans
> how we as parents assess the children reaching their goals so you
can move forward
> and so forth
>

Brendalee,
I don't know the regs in RI - but here in NY there are samples of
forms that can be submitted. Be sure to read your state regs
carefully. It is not unknown for local officials to ask for more
than is required. Sometimes they need to be gently and
diplomatically educated as to what is required of a family to hs.
I've replied to local liason sighting the number of a specific reg
when informing of our use for assesment rather than testing as an
option here in NY. Your best bet is to contact homeschoolers in RI
and find out what format they've used that has been accepted.
Certainly try to find unschoolers in RI and ask them how they've
managed the system.

I keep my paperwork vague...eg: my dd will read, write and work with
numbers and mathematical concepts on a daily basis. She will learn
social studies, geography, history, sciences, etc. through her varied
interests and activities. We will use books from our home and public
library as well as resources from internet, video and film. Her
teachers will include family, friends and community resources. Arts,
physical activity and health will be addressed regularly.

If your state required numbers of hours spent on each "academic"
activity, you can look up what is required, divide it by the numbers
of days in school year and put forth that he/she will spend those
hours per day or week on the required subjects.

As for testing, don't know about RI, but in NY there is a list of
test to chose from, some can be given at home.

I guess the main point, is to educate yourself as to your rights
within your state as to what is needed and DO NO MORE THAN THAT.

And if Montana had ocean property...i'd consider moving there...
BTW - if you can move across the state line to CT the homeschooling
regs are pretty loose and I understand that there are many
unschoolers.

Lisa Heyman
NY

soggyboysmom

--- In [email protected], "lmanathome"
<Lmanathome@m...> wrote:
> BTW - if you can move across the state line to CT the
homeschooling
> regs are pretty loose and I understand that there are many
> unschoolers.
>
> Lisa Heyman
> NY

Yup - here we are, waving madly from over in CT, the land of no
paperwork at all - not even a vague "I'm homeschooling my child this
year" letter is required.

soggyboysmom

--- In [email protected], Brendalee McGovern
<Brendalee80@y...> wrote:
> Dear Un Schooling Families
>
> How do you explain to your local Public Education board
(especially if you at one time had a child in the public school
system) as to how you base your day when they want an account of
your children's daily educational plans how we as parents assess the
children reaching their goals so you can move forward and so forth

Check your state LAWS - the istrict can NOT ask for more than the
state allows for, even if they think they can (and I know RI has a
lot of local leeway but NOT daily listings and such).