Comments on: Homeschooling cuts children off from oversight

By: Carnival of the Libertarians: Mother’s Day Edition | hell's handmaiden

Sun, 11 May 2008 15:40:56 +0000

[...] presents Homeschooling cuts children off from oversight posted at Principled [...]

By: Dana

Dana — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:34:25 +0000

Yes, you would expect that the district’s homeschooling coordinator should know the details of the law.

By: Nance Confer

Nance Confer — Fri, 02 May 2008 23:35:35 +0000

And, of course, they don’t even touch on the private school option.

We don’t even have the shockingly lax, according to this article, annual evaluation requirement. What is the world coming to?!

Nance

By: Nance Confer

Nance Confer — Fri, 02 May 2008 23:17:15 +0000

Hi Dana –

I just read the whole news article. Between the officious official and the reporter, they have really bolluxed things up in this article.

I don’t expect everyone — homeschooler or not — to understand that there are different legal options for at-home learning here. But these people — especially the official — should know better than to publish this sort of nonsense.

Aside from the spurious accusations of rampant abuse, they have completely confused two of the options. The article mentions that — gasp! — “the county might have no contact with the home schooled child for 12 months.” Which is what the law requires for the HEP option.

But then it continues with discussions about a completely different option — the virtual school option — which is legally quite different. In that program, the student is at home but is legally a public school student and subject to all the same testing and curriculum requirements — including frequent contact with a ps teacher — as any other ps student.

I’m sure you know all this but don’t know how you’re going to untangle this mess in a letter to the editor.

Best of luck!

Nance

By: Principled Discovery » Why do we care what Greg Laden has to say?

Principled Discovery » Why do we care what Greg Laden has to say? — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:28:37 +0000

[...] and his own imagination). He also does not speak with the same sense of misplaced authority as Robert Schiavone, a homeschooling coordinator in Florida, but seems to have the same trust that government knows [...]

By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:49:07 +0000

Thanks, ThirstyJon! I’m always honored one someone reads something beyond the first entry.

By: ThirstyJon

ThirstyJon — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:13:51 +0000

You are doing such an excellent job of defending liberty and homeschooling that I got a little crazy and just dugg a bunch of your articles.

May God raise up more homeschool moms (and dads!) to mobilize a new generation of men and women that cannot be oppressed because they are just too free inside for anyone to push down.

ThirstyJon

By: Dana Hanley

Dana Hanley — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:03:12 +0000

OK, Shawna. For you, I will rewrite this over the weekend and send it to the St. Augustine Record. We’ll see if they print it.

By: Shawna

Shawna — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:12:48 +0000

I really wish you would send these writing into Editors of newspapers. You give much food for thought… a means of educating the public without being in a classroom… a form of home education for the general public LOL But seriously, you should consider submitting your pieces as Editorials or simply as Letters to the Editor.

By: Renae

Renae — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:26:33 +0000

The only thing sour here is the trash! And sometimes me in the morning before coffee.

Children are precious and they need to be kept safe. However, I agree that isn’t the role of the public school. They may have a role assisting an investigation, but schools are searching for anything to bring suspicion. The kids they can “keep a handle on” are affected by the neurosis, as well as the individuals who work with these kids.