2283 - "legal in every state"
Luz Shosie and Ned Vare
on 8/24/02 9:31 PM, [email protected] at
[email protected] wrote:
you need to know exactly how your approach fits the state's idea of home
education.
Yes, it's possible to make unschooling look acceptable. Once you find out
what the requirements are, you can make your practice look as though it
conforms. The more the laws (politicians and schools) are against
homeschooling, the more you need to spin your program in order to be
accepted.
My recommendation is to ask members of the support groups in your area and
see how they handle it. Find someone whose brand of hsing matches yours and
then see how they accomodate the requirements.
Several states leave the education decisions entirely up to the parents. In
those states, you will have little to worry about. In CT, for example, there
is not even a need to inform the school that you are homeschooling. There is
no requirement even to contact the school at all, unless you are withdrawing
the child, and in that case, a letter that says. "I am withdrawing my child"
is sufficient. However, from what we've seen on this list, many states have
requirements and forms and deadlines and other hoops for parents to
maneuver.
The best advice I've heard is this: Whatever the requirements, give the
state (school) as little as they will accept. Have as little contact as
possible with school employees. It will help you and it will also help all
other homeschoolers.
[email protected] wrote:
> I recall that I've seen written somewhereYes, it's been written that Home Education is "legal" in every state, but
> (unschooling.com?) that unschooling *is* legal in every state. It seems to
> take a lot more work in some places to make our "brand" of homeschooling
> look the way the state wants it to look, but it's possible, right? Someone
> please correct me if I'm wrong; it truly matters to me.
>
> brenda
you need to know exactly how your approach fits the state's idea of home
education.
Yes, it's possible to make unschooling look acceptable. Once you find out
what the requirements are, you can make your practice look as though it
conforms. The more the laws (politicians and schools) are against
homeschooling, the more you need to spin your program in order to be
accepted.
My recommendation is to ask members of the support groups in your area and
see how they handle it. Find someone whose brand of hsing matches yours and
then see how they accomodate the requirements.
Several states leave the education decisions entirely up to the parents. In
those states, you will have little to worry about. In CT, for example, there
is not even a need to inform the school that you are homeschooling. There is
no requirement even to contact the school at all, unless you are withdrawing
the child, and in that case, a letter that says. "I am withdrawing my child"
is sufficient. However, from what we've seen on this list, many states have
requirements and forms and deadlines and other hoops for parents to
maneuver.
The best advice I've heard is this: Whatever the requirements, give the
state (school) as little as they will accept. Have as little contact as
possible with school employees. It will help you and it will also help all
other homeschoolers.
Tia Leschke
>Good advice. Anything extra that one family does is something that is
>The best advice I've heard is this: Whatever the requirements, give the
>state (school) as little as they will accept. Have as little contact as
>possible with school employees. It will help you and it will also help all
>other homeschoolers.
likely to also be asked of the next family.
Tia
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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