{"id":8607,"date":"2008-06-17T17:05:49","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T21:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=8607"},"modified":"2008-06-17T17:07:36","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T21:07:36","slug":"nc-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=8607","title":{"rendered":"NC UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here<\/a> are the relevant bits. My commentary interspersed:<\/p>\n

Findings #5
\n\u2022 According to the Department of Non-Public Instruction\u2019s web site, Lynn Paddock had a registered home school, Benjamin Street School.<\/em><\/p>\n

First off, the Department of Non-Public Instruction doesn’t even exist. It’s the Division of Non-Public Education. Nit-picky, perhaps. But it really doesn’t bode well for their understanding of home education.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Department of Non-Public Instruction is unable to make site visits to monitor and support home schools\u2019 compliance with state policy due to limited funding and oversight resources.
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This is thankfully true.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Home schooling may contribute to social isolation if children are not involved in outside activities and adoptive parents are not utilizing post adoptive services.
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Sure. If you lock your kids up in cages, they may feel isolated. But how many homeschoolers do that?<\/p>\n

[snip]<\/p>\n

Recommendations #5:
\n\u2022 The Department of Non-Public Instruction should conduct a study regarding a Needs Assessment and pursue funding to support increased monitoring and oversight to home schools.
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This is the heart of the matter, and the task force again show their ignorance of the law. DNPE (not DNPI) has no authority to monitor homeschooling beyond inspecting our testing records, which are only open for review for a period of “one year after the testing.”<\/p>\n

\u2022 The State Fatality Review Team supports the continued efforts of the Division of Social Services in regard to the gathering of statistics related to specific school situations in child protective services.<\/em><\/p>\n

This one is really beyond our ability to control. Besides, the MSM make sure that everyone knows when a homeschooling family is involved.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The State Fatality Review Team recommends that the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner begin to track school status at the time of death and make available this information on a yearly basis to the North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force and the state-level North Carolina Child Fatality Prevention Team.
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\nAgain, these data are already widely dispersed. There’s really not a whole lot to say about the State gathering data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are the relevant bits. My commentary interspersed: Findings #5 \u2022 According to the Department of Non-Public Instruction\u2019s web site, Lynn Paddock had a registered home school, Benjamin Street School. First off, the Department of Non-Public Instruction doesn’t even exist. It’s the Division of Non-Public Education. Nit-picky, perhaps. But it really doesn’t bode well for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}