Sandra

Here in Richmond, VA we have LOTS of hsing co-ops. We have the ones where parents
trade teaching classes to each other's children and the ones where you go to a
place (usually church classrooms that have been rented) where you pay for your
kids to take classes. Most teachers are hsing parents or people in the community
who have volunteered or who have been hired to teach. It's mostly for academic,
middle school and high school classes.

Sandi

Nanci and Thomas Kuykendall

>Here in Richmond, VA we have LOTS of hsing co-ops. We have the ones where parents trade teaching classes to each other's children and the ones where you go to a place where you pay for your
>kids to take classes.
>Sandi

What are the legal realities of this? How does the law allow you to trade around between parents? It was my understanding that you could only teach your own children, and that teaching other children made what you were doing private school, and no longer homeschooling, required certification and other legal issues to be addressed.

Nanci K. (Who is very curious as to whether this can be done where I live)

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LisaKK

>What are the legal realities of this? How does the law allow you to trade
around between parents? It was my understanding that you could only teach
your own children, and that teaching other children made what you were doing
private school, and no longer homeschooling, required certification and
other legal issues to be addressed.
>

Who would know? I'm totally confused on this *legal* thing. :) If I invite
4 of my friends over and we all learn something together, who needs some
sort of legal sanction? If I invite 4 -5 if my kids friends over and we do
science experiments together, so what? At different times I've traded off
with one, to and four families. We've done all kinds of things together,
even producing one play.

Our current happening is my good friend is painting a mural on my livingroom
wall as a birthday present and my teenager is going to come over and pick
her brain about math/algebra. I'll keep her two children busy while she
works. <g>

Maybe if the children are coming to your home every day of the week and you
act as teacher, then you are running a private school, but what we do,
trading skills and time, isn't the same thing.

LisaKK

Cathie _

Nanci, I am in Ohio. On our hs notification forms that we submit each year
it does have a place to list people other than the parent who will be
teaching your child. I do not list classes that we will take individually
but consider them in the classification that I term "private lessons". Much
the same as karate lessons can be counted as phys ed, or piano lessons as
music.

Cathie

>From: "Nanci and Thomas Kuykendall" <tn-k4of5@...>
>
>
>What are the legal realities of this? How does the law allow you to trade
>around between parents? It was my understanding that you could only teach
>your own children, and that teaching other children made what you were
>doing private school, and no longer homeschooling, required certification
>and other legal issues to be addressed.
>
>Nanci K. (Who is very curious as to whether this can be done where I live)

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LisaKK

>
>Nanci, I am in Ohio. On our hs notification forms that we submit each year
>it does have a place to list people other than the parent who will be
>teaching your child. I do not list classes that we will take individually
>but consider them in the classification that I term "private lessons". Much
>the same as karate lessons can be counted as phys ed, or piano lessons as
>music.
>
>
I would consider this an invasion of privacy. *I* take responsibiliyt for
the education f my children, how I go about that is no one's business.

Course, I'm old and testy, as I approach 40. <G>

LisaKK
>>From: "Nanci and Thomas Kuykendall" <tn-k4of5@...>
>>
>>
>>What are the legal realities of this? How does the law allow you to trade
>>around between parents? It was my understanding that you could only teach
>>your own children, and that teaching other children made what you were
>>doing private school, and no longer homeschooling, required certification
>>and other legal issues to be addressed.
>>
>>Nanci K. (Who is very curious as to whether this can be done where I live)
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>
> >From: "Nanci and Thomas Kuykendall" <tn-k4of5@...>
> >
> >
> >What are the legal realities of this? How does the law allow you to
trade
> >around between parents? It was my understanding that you could only
teach
> >your own children, and that teaching other children made what you were
> >doing private school, and no longer homeschooling, required certification
> >and other legal issues to be addressed.
> >
> >Nanci K. (Who is very curious as to whether this can be done where I
live)
>

Nanci,
I think if homeschoolers never reached out to the community and asked for
help teacher their child certain things, they'd all go insane. My kids are
still very young, but I like to know that when they want to learn say,
algebra, there are people out there that can do it for me. There may also be
someone in my hsing group who is interested in say, pharmacology (my line of
work) and I might be able to teach them something. I could not teach my kid
everything through high school all alone. I just don't know all of that
stuff. I'm not sure what the legalities are, but I'm pretty sure someone
teaching my kid to knit does not make them a private school. You might want
to read books like David Alberts on community based learning. There are so
many resources out there, we have to tap into them (at least IMHO)
Amy
Mom to Samantha, Dana, and Casey
The World Is Our Classroom