Re: [AlwaysLearning] Digest Number 153
Julie Stauffer
<<We've had them asked if they are happy, afraid, sad, whatever>>
Didn't that make you nuts? I had a cow when an airport security guy
wouldn't let my 4yo take his toy guns on the plane. They made him check the
guns (it had never crossed my mind) and Zach cried. I was so mad and said
something to the effect of "Are you crazy? Its a toy. I don't think a 4yo
is going to steal an airplane" at which time Dh gently ushered me along.
I'd probably snap if somebody decided to interrogate my children.
Julie--who has an anarchist's heart
Didn't that make you nuts? I had a cow when an airport security guy
wouldn't let my 4yo take his toy guns on the plane. They made him check the
guns (it had never crossed my mind) and Zach cried. I was so mad and said
something to the effect of "Are you crazy? Its a toy. I don't think a 4yo
is going to steal an airplane" at which time Dh gently ushered me along.
I'd probably snap if somebody decided to interrogate my children.
Julie--who has an anarchist's heart
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**Is that a newer-to-older trend or a smaller-to-larger (population) trend?
Because California is trussed up like a Christmas goose with legal hoo-ha
(if my terminology gets too technical, someone let me know <g>).**
:-D Cute Pam
Still, darlin, 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. :) Some of
those states have positively evil laws that give state educrats power over
all schools in the state, public or private. How can real private education
exist under the thumb of the state?
A sort of related rant... today I learned that students at the local high
school face suspension for speaking Spanish in school. I assume it's only
aimed at the bilingual mexican-american kids, and that the kids in Spanish
class fracturing the language are exempt. I told the mom who told me this I
thought she should contact the ACLU a take the idiots to court. Somebody's
lame brain stupid nastly idea of a gang busting measure. Sheesh.
Deborah in IL
Because California is trussed up like a Christmas goose with legal hoo-ha
(if my terminology gets too technical, someone let me know <g>).**
:-D Cute Pam
Still, darlin, 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. :) Some of
those states have positively evil laws that give state educrats power over
all schools in the state, public or private. How can real private education
exist under the thumb of the state?
A sort of related rant... today I learned that students at the local high
school face suspension for speaking Spanish in school. I assume it's only
aimed at the bilingual mexican-american kids, and that the kids in Spanish
class fracturing the language are exempt. I told the mom who told me this I
thought she should contact the ACLU a take the idiots to court. Somebody's
lame brain stupid nastly idea of a gang busting measure. Sheesh.
Deborah in IL
Pam Hartley
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. :)
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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. :)
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[email protected]
In a message dated 1/27/02 11:10:32 PM, pamhartley@... writes:
<< I'm pretty
sure it's still legal to breathe, >>
Breathing is SO protected that people can't drive old funky cars in
California. It seems, driving around there, that all cars are new (compared
to N.Mex.) but it's the emissions standards being so high.
<<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.
Sandra
<< I'm pretty
sure it's still legal to breathe, >>
Breathing is SO protected that people can't drive old funky cars in
California. It seems, driving around there, that all cars are new (compared
to N.Mex.) but it's the emissions standards being so high.
<<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.
Sandra
[email protected]
In a message dated 1/28/02 1:10:32 AM, pamhartley@... writes:
<< 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> >>
Well - in Kentucky, the only requirement is to notify one's school district
at the beginning of each year, homeschool for 275 days of the year and keep a
record of having done so. There are no requirements concerning content or
intent, yet. And I don't bother to comply with the notification, so that if
requirements decide to appear, we're not in the system and thereby affected.
Sharon
<< 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> >>
Well - in Kentucky, the only requirement is to notify one's school district
at the beginning of each year, homeschool for 275 days of the year and keep a
record of having done so. There are no requirements concerning content or
intent, yet. And I don't bother to comply with the notification, so that if
requirements decide to appear, we're not in the system and thereby affected.
Sharon
Nancy Wooton
on 1/28/02 7:06 AM, sharonve@... at sharonve@... wrote:
state would do if they had to school another 100 days a year!
Nancy
> homeschool for 275 days of the yearIs that number correct? In CA, it's 175 days. I can't imagine what the
state would do if they had to school another 100 days a year!
Nancy