ONE FOR ROB REICH
The San Jose Mercury News calls for the CA legislature to allow homeschooling as long as “minimally intrusive regulations over home schools” are enacted. It helpfully provides some examples of what those might be:
Other states have various ways of overseeing home schooling. Some set minimum education requirements for parents; others require attendance records and test taking. Some states require parents to affiliate formally with a home-school organization.
As long as the R4 option is still in place, this might actually be acceptable to the CA homeschoolers. The vast majority, who already register as R4 schools, could go on doing what they’ve always done. And the folks who for whatever reason want to be “official” homeschools would have an option they don’t now.
If the legislature, though, tries to eliminate the use of the R4 by homeschoolers, I predict it’ll mean war.
2 Responses to “ONE FOR ROB REICH”
 Comment by JJ Ross March 12th, 2008 at 11:27 am |
Not being reactionary but just thinking about it — that’s in effect how FL has been set up for about 20 years, with a range of legal options including one family decalring as homeschoolers and meeting minimal reporting directly between the family and the school supt, or the certified private tutor, private school enrollment, or private “umbrella” school enrollment. Virtual courses can be combined with any or all of these. |
 Comment by Darren March 14th, 2008 at 12:10 pm |
Virginia and Maryland are similar – ranges of options depending on what your kids’ needs are, and how much state interaction you can handle. |