Utterly Meaningless

That is a strange section. It almost looks like someone was cutting and pasting, and hit paste in the wrong place. It starts with C, where’s A and B? No heading for that section? Really weird!

From the official website:

RECOMMENDATIONS

While not mandated by law, home schools are ENCOURAGED to:

I. Offer instruction of at least similar quality, scope and duration as local conventional schools.
A. Five clock hours of instruction with the student each school day should consist of:
1. Formal academic instruction in the home;
2. Directed educational activities appropriate to the age of the student.
B. Conduct instruction each school year for 180 days.
C. Remember that minds are usually more receptive to formal academic instruction
in the morning hours after an adequate amount of sleep.

II. Maintain a current daily log, journal or lesson plan book throughout the entire school year.
A. It should contain:
1. Time devoted to the formal study of each subject each day;
2. Page numbers, chapters or units of the textbooks (or very brief descriptions
of concepts) covered during various time periods each day.
B. It should be retained at your school until the student has enrolled in a conventional
school or has graduated.

III. Be certain that nationally standardized testing:
A. Is ordered by each February 1. Click here for a list of testing companies;
B. Is administered each year during the same week of your choice between March 1 and April 15;
C. Is not administered or scored by relatives, guardians, or anyone living in the same
household as the student.
1. An educational institution/organization is preferred.
2. Machine-scoring is most ideal. (Always allow at least eight weeks to receive test results
if the test is machine scored.)
D. Includes the subject areas of social studies and science, whenever applicable.

So is NCHE stepping up to correct this misprint or are they going to play nice as they usually do?

I homeschooled in NC many years ago and this exact same wording was in circulation at that time. I worried a bit about it the first year and laughed at its ridiculous misunderstanding of homeschooling in subsequent years. If they COULD get homeschoolers to do these things, then we would not be such good competition, because they we’d be replicating the government schools’ modus operandi.

How little they understand of why what we do works.