Guest guest Posted April 23, 2003 Report Share Posted April 23, 2003 I have been homeschooling since the beginning. She is 9 1/2....grade 4. I believe the laws vary from state to state for reporting purposes. I am from Ontario and the law here states that anyone with or without a degree can teach as long as the child is receiving an adequate education. We have never had a home visit, but I am prepared with a portfolio of 's work in the event of a home visit from a local principal. We have a large homeschooling group in Thunder Bay, Ontario of 40 families or so who get together every Friday for events. We also have group swimming lessons. Check out HSLDA...Homeschool Legal Defence Association. You can pay a yearly membership and they update you on laws in different states and provinces and will defend you for free in the event of hassle of any kind regarding your decision to keep your child out of the public system. Pam Homeschooling Well now some of you have got me interested in home schooling since is missing so much school. I have a few questions. Do you need a special degree to be able to do this. Do you need to report periodically to your school district or a public school mediator? Where do you typically get the curriculum best suited for your child? Does your child find it hard having minimal socialization with peers? Thank you, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 23, 2003 Report Share Posted April 23, 2003 , When we lost control of seizures 1 1/2 years ago, we chose to homeschool our now 8-year-old daughter. Our goal at the time was to give her an education inspite of the seizures and side affects to the seizures. We knew that she would lose tremdous grounds in her learning if we relied on the school to educate her. In other words, she would be missing a lot of school. Also, we knew we would have a lot of stress in wondering if she would have any seizures at school. We were living in the Philippines at the time where she was attending a great school, but there were a lot of potential injury areas on the play ground. Also, the school was not set up to help those with exceptional needs like Shan's needs at the time. We commited ourselves to homeschooling Shan for at least a year. That gave us time to work on improving her seizures. After a year we evaluated whether Shan was ready to mainstream in school or not. Like many kids, we are wanting to keep her in school to help her with social development. Thankfully, Shan's seizures are now well controlled to where she can attend school. The hardest thing for us is to let the school educate her. She was thriving under one on one teaching. Being in a classroom she now has to deal with all the classroom stimuli and the teacher's way of teaching. Math is especially difficult for her to learn in the classroom. So, we are doing homeschool during the vacations and weekends to help with the math. Rhonda Well now some of you have got me interested in home schooling since is missing so much school. I have a few questions. Do you need a special degree to be able to do this. Do you need to report periodically to your school district or a public school mediator? Where do you typically get the curriculum best suited for your child? Does your child find it hard having minimal socialization with peers? Thank you, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 23, 2004 Report Share Posted April 23, 2004 , The law is different in each state. Check out this site for more information on your law and links to resources, etc.: www.home-ed-magazine.com/ Click on either " networking " or " questions and answers " and you'll eventually be able to click your way to their support groups page where you'll find your state. There is info there about your own state homeschool organization and through them, local support groups. Always helps to talk to other parents in your own state who know the law and what you need to do. The local groups also usually organize group activities, field trips, etc. that are great for the social stuff. I've been homeschooling for eighteen (!!) years.... and active in support groups as an information and referral contact for the past 13 yrs. So.... e-mail me privately if you want to know more. Actually, I can send you some resource lists that I put together for homeschooling special needs kids. I'll send it privately. That will include links to where you can buy curriculum items, etc. Patti, mom to Katera Homeschooling Well now some of you have got me interested in home schooling since is missing so much school. I have a few questions. Do you need a special degree to be able to do this. Do you need to report periodically to your school district or a public school mediator? Where do you typically get the curriculum best suited for your child? Does your child find it hard having minimal socialization with peers? Thank you, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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