Heidi Wordhouse-Dykema

><<Actually, any
>Californian has to declare themselves a private school if they want to
>legally homeschool, so find a californian who'd be willing to umbrella you
>and willing to deal with any Michigan paperwork.>>
>
>This is incorrect.

Okay, okay... so there are four ways to homeschool in california, but I was
talking about umbrella opportunities. I also included it as the THIRD
option after locals and established umbrellas and I admit I got messy,
linguistically!

For any folks who are curious:
1.) The credentialed tutor option is very rarely done, I think because of
its expense.
2.) The public-school-at-home option isn't seen as 'real' homeschooling in
some quarters as the children are public school students. It usually isn't
very unschooler friendly.
3.) The private-school-at-home/ISP option is done but sometimes is viewed
much as #2.
4.) Declaring yourself a private school (R-4) is very frequently done by
cali families and is very unschooler friendly.

An non-cali unschooler looking for a way to unschool kids she is
responsible for, but under her states law is stymied because she's not the
blood-mother, wouldn't be interested in 1, 2 or 3. They wouldn't do her
any good. Option four, now...umbrella-ing... That could work.

So, I listed the one that could work and is most frequently used by
unschooling families. I do apologize for misleading folks into thinking
that it's the ONLY way to homeschool here in Cali, it just seems to be the
most common way and the way most likely to help the searching mum. I
should have said 'usually' instead of 'has to'. Consider me linguistically
chastened.

I'm in Cali and I've declared. In the past, as a very exclusive private
school we've umbrella'd the child of a friend who wished to stay below the
radar.
No fuss, no muss.
HeidiWD