{"id":2702,"date":"2004-03-30T20:56:43","date_gmt":"2004-03-30T20:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=2702"},"modified":"2004-03-30T20:56:43","modified_gmt":"2004-03-30T20:56:43","slug":"clueless-in-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=2702","title":{"rendered":"CLUELESS IN VIRGINIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.odonnellweb.com\/mtarchives\/000955.html\">Chris O&#8217;Donnell<\/a> found an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazette.net\/200413\/princegeorgescty\/education\/208540-1.html\">article<\/a> which compares the homeschooling laws in Virginia and Maryland.  The reporter really butchered the VA laws.  Unfortunately, the MD laws are even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gomilpitas.com\/homeschooling\/laws\/blMD.htm\">worse<\/a> than indicated in the article.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Parents must maintain a portfolio of &#8220;relevant materials such as instructional materials, reading materials, and examples of the child&#8217;s writings, work sheets, workbooks, creative materials, and tests.&#8221; The local superintendent may review the portfolio, discuss the instructional program, and observe instruction at a mutually agreeable time and place not more than three times a year. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yecchh!  Too bad the reporter didn&#8217;t compare VA&#8217;s laws with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gomilpitas.com\/homeschooling\/laws\/blDE.htm\">DE&#8217;s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a72704. Report of non-public schools to Department<\/p>\n<p>(a) All persons conducting non-public schools [including homeschools] shall report end of the year attendance information to the Department of Education annually, on or before the 31st day of July, on such forms as shall be prescribed by the Department of Education. <\/p>\n<p>(b) Such persons shall also submit annually, on or before the 31st day of October, a statement of pupil enrollment as of the last school day in September, on such forms as prescribed by the Department of Education.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That really is it- two pieces of paper.  The reporter would have had a heart attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris O&#8217;Donnell found an article which compares the homeschooling laws in Virginia and Maryland. The reporter really butchered the VA laws. Unfortunately, the MD laws are even worse than indicated in the article. Parents must maintain a portfolio of &#8220;relevant materials such as instructional materials, reading materials, and examples of the child&#8217;s writings, work sheets, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}