Alan & Brenda Leonard

2/9/03 10:01:

> It can really get to you when the public homeschools in California are
> offering "Unschooling" along with "Waldorf Inspired" in the same brochure.

What the heck is a public homeschool? Sounds like contradictory terms to
me.

brenda

kayb85 <[email protected]>

--- In [email protected], Alan & Brenda Leonard
<abtleo@e...> wrote:
> 2/9/03 10:01:
>
> > It can really get to you when the public homeschools in
California are
> > offering "Unschooling" along with "Waldorf Inspired" in the same
brochure.
>
> What the heck is a public homeschool? Sounds like contradictory
terms to
> me.

cyber charter schools?
Sheila

Kathy Evans

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> Thankyou Robyn, I will look in the archives for
discussions on household work.
Kathy

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Aleksi <[email protected]>

> What the heck is a public homeschool? Sounds like contradictory terms to
> me.
>
> brenda

State funded charter schools for homeschoolers. They supply all or some of the following: texts, workbooks, advisors, testing,classes and money for other activities and supplies.

HOMESCHOOLING CHARTER SCHOOLS AND RELATED PROGRAMS
No Fee; They provide materials and maybe classes and more.

California Charter Academy http://www.public.cca-edu.org

"CHEP" http://www.ocde.k12.ca.us/chep/

Eagles Peak Charter School www.eaglespeak.org

Gorman Learning Center www.gormanlc.org

Julian Charter School www.juliancharterschool.org

Golden Valley Charter School http://www.goldenvcs.org

k12 www.k12.com Bill Bennett's computer intensive program

Barb Eaton

They suppy a home computer too. They are fairly new here in Ohio. It
muddies the water. How do you deal with it in CA. in your homeschool groups?
They groups I'm in are inclusive. Stir, stir, muddier and muddier. We have
to keep a sharp eye out on our regulations. I worry about the future for our
children. I like the idea of more choices but I am concerned for our
homeschool status.

Barb E
"Bad times have a value. These are occasions a good
learner would not miss."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Author and Philosopher




on 2/10/03 12:43 AM, Aleksi <aleksi@...> at
aleksi@... wrote:

>
>> What the heck is a public homeschool? Sounds like contradictory terms to
>> me.
>>
>> brenda
>
> State funded charter schools for homeschoolers. They supply all or some of the
> following: texts, workbooks, advisors, testing,classes and money for other
> activities and supplies.
>
> HOMESCHOOLING CHARTER SCHOOLS AND RELATED PROGRAMS
> No Fee; They provide materials and maybe classes and more.
>
> California Charter Academy http://www.public.cca-edu.org
>
> "CHEP" http://www.ocde.k12.ca.us/chep/
>
> Eagles Peak Charter School www.eaglespeak.org
>
> Gorman Learning Center www.gormanlc.org
>
> Julian Charter School www.juliancharterschool.org
>
> Golden Valley Charter School http://www.goldenvcs.org
>
> k12 www.k12.com Bill Bennett's computer intensive program

Olif VanPelt

Cyber schools are a way for a family to homeschool and also a way for the government to get their money. They are attractive because they are "free", but they have their own price.Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com


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Kelli Traaseth

There is one of these starting right now in our small town. What blew me away is that a homeschooling family asked the high school to do it, like they wanted the school to monitor them?? They will be using the K12 program.

I guess everyone has different ideas on how they want to homeschool, obviously, but to ask the school to be looking over your shoulder?

Our superintendent is really trying to rein in all the families who are looking at or choosing alternative ways of education. He is also fighting charter schools and such, he blames these schools and homeschoolers for all the problems that the district is having! It scares me!

Kelli


Barb Eaton <homemama@...> wrote: They suppy a home computer too. They are fairly new here in Ohio. It
muddies the water. How do you deal with it in CA. in your homeschool groups?
They groups I'm in are inclusive. Stir, stir, muddier and muddier. We have
to keep a sharp eye out on our regulations. I worry about the future for our
children. I like the idea of more choices but I am concerned for our
homeschool status.

Barb E
"Bad times have a value. These are occasions a good
learner would not miss."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Author and Philosopher




on 2/10/03 12:43 AM, Aleksi <aleksi@...> at
aleksi@... wrote:

>
>> What the heck is a public homeschool? Sounds like contradictory terms to
>> me.
>>
>> brenda
>
> State funded charter schools for homeschoolers. They supply all or some of the
> following: texts, workbooks, advisors, testing,classes and money for other
> activities and supplies.
>
> HOMESCHOOLING CHARTER SCHOOLS AND RELATED PROGRAMS
> No Fee; They provide materials and maybe classes and more.
>
> California Charter Academy http://www.public.cca-edu.org
>
> "CHEP" http://www.ocde.k12.ca.us/chep/
>
> Eagles Peak Charter School www.eaglespeak.org
>
> Gorman Learning Center www.gormanlc.org
>
> Julian Charter School www.juliancharterschool.org
>
> Golden Valley Charter School http://www.goldenvcs.org
>
> k12 www.k12.com Bill Bennett's computer intensive program



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Heidi <[email protected]>

the price, in our family: "getting school done" and letting life go
by the wayside.

Not anything I would recommend.

even though you get all this cool stuff.

the cool stuff being the draw, in our case anyway.

and now we're done with it, never to return!

:D
HEidi



--- In [email protected], "Olif VanPelt"
<ovanpelt@h...> wrote:
> Cyber schools are a way for a family to homeschool and also a way
for the government to get their money. They are attractive because
they are "free", but they have their own price.Get more from the
Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

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On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 07:36:39 -0800 (PST) Kelli Traaseth
<kellitraas@...> writes:
>
> There is one of these starting right now in our small town. What
> blew me away is that a homeschooling family asked the high school to
> do it, like they wanted the school to monitor them?? They
> will be using the K12 program.
>
> I guess everyone has different ideas on how they want to homeschool,
> obviously, but to ask the school to be looking over your shoulder?

I know some people that are doing this, and their reasoning: It is "owed"
to them. They figured that since they have to pay school taxes, they are
going to get something out of it. But then they register for this
"service" and complain about what is expected of them. But hey, at least
they are getting their moneys worth!<g>
Wende

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Tia Leschke

> >
> > I guess everyone has different ideas on how they want to homeschool,
> > obviously, but to ask the school to be looking over your shoulder?
>
> I know some people that are doing this, and their reasoning: It is "owed"
> to them. They figured that since they have to pay school taxes, they are
> going to get something out of it. But then they register for this
> "service" and complain about what is expected of them. But hey, at least
> they are getting their moneys worth!<g>

Keep in mind that these kinds of cyber schools differ a lot from place to
place. We have one in BC that we've been using for years. The first 2
years there was absolutely no monitoring. During the second year, the
government decided that if they were funding this thing they wanted "proof"
that the kids were learning. The way it was handled, though, unschoolers
could still function. You could send in anecdotal reports about what your
kids were doing rather than having to make them do certain things. This
year, it's changed again. The government decided for some weird reason to
fund them the same as regular public schools (even though their costs are
less) but they want more proof. I don't think we'll stay on next year.
We've been doing ok this year, but that's because Lars is on an IEP and we
can still do basically what we want. Even so, I think they'll want more
next year. But the government has also started funding private school cyber
school programs (half funding, like most private schools in the province)
and there's one we might go with. Wondertree has always been as close to
unschooling as possible, like a Sudbury school. They've worked out ways to
"prove" learning without interfering with what the kids are actually doing.
I'm looking into it. But we've had the use of a computer all these years
that we wouldn't have had without the cyber school. I think we've gotten
some value for our taxes.
Tia