June Melanson

I just started to unschool my daughter. Although she was doing very
well academically, she hated the structure of school. I want her to
have a love for learning so I decided to change the way we do things.
What I am wondering is what do you tell the school board you are
doing. I am from New Brunswick, Canada and we have a form to fill
out every year in which we have to state what subjects are going to
be covered, and a list of everything being taught in each subject, as
well as how long do we plan to spend on each subject everyday. How
can you put unschooling into words that the school board will accept?
Anyone have any answers for me????
J.Melanson

Norma

--- In [email protected], "June Melanson"
<june_melanson@y...> wrote:
>> What I am wondering is what do you tell the school board you are
> doing. I am from New Brunswick, Canada and we have a form to fill
> out every year in which we have to state what subjects are going to
> be covered, and a list of everything being taught in each subject,
as
> well as how long do we plan to spend on each subject everyday. How
> can you put unschooling into words that the school board will
accept?

June:

You can do the same thing that many teachers do: fill out your daily
lesson plans way in advance, then do whatever you want. Life is a
series of adaptations, and adapting your activities to the day is
your right, your prerogative. A good source of what kind of info
they are looking for can be found in the World Book at this site:
http://www2.worldbook.com/students/course_study_index.asp

Select the information that is appropriate for your family, with your
own additions, and give them a copy of that. What you have to do
depends on your laws and regulations. Be sure to read them
carefully. Sometimes they really require very little, though myths
may build up about these requirements. And sometimes, even when they
appear to require a lot, there are no teeth behind the regs, no way
to make you stick to whatever you give them. In other words, you are
just giving them an outline, a guideline, and you are then free to do
whatever you want. In most cases no one can hold your feet to the
fire to ascertain whether or not you followed that guideline.

As far as how much time we spend goes, I have no problem giving them
the max required, since we have learned that almost every living
moment of every day is a learning moment, a learning experience, so
we are quite comfortable with the amount of time we spend on learning.

You will have to comb your regs thoroughly and read them like a
debate team member would. Then you can argue for your interpretation
of the regs, since all law is subject to interpretation anyway.
Consider reading and evaluating your regs as your primary learning
experience!

Norma

Tia Leschke

>I just started to unschool my daughter. Although she was doing very
>well academically, she hated the structure of school. I want her to
>have a love for learning so I decided to change the way we do things.
>What I am wondering is what do you tell the school board you are
>doing. I am from New Brunswick, Canada and we have a form to fill
>out every year in which we have to state what subjects are going to
>be covered, and a list of everything being taught in each subject, as
>well as how long do we plan to spend on each subject everyday. How
>can you put unschooling into words that the school board will accept?
>Anyone have any answers for me????

Are there any support groups near you? You can get info from
www.flora.org/homeschool-ca. Click on New Brunswick. I know there are a
couple of New Brunswick residents on hs-ca. If you don't get the info you
want from the Flora site, you might want to join hs-ca and ask there. What
you usually need is the exact law, which should be on the Flora site, and
advice from people who are actually living with that law. To join hs-ca,
send a message to hs-ca-subscribe@...
Tia