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There’s a couple of communist states on that list. Surprising.
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You know, for the 12 years we homeschooled in NY, and for all the filing of IHIPs and quarterly reports, and doing the standardized testing every year, I really didn’t find it *burdensome* as much as a nuisance.
One thing on the plus side of it, and I know there were other homeschoolers who agreed with me because they told me so themselves, is that the homeschool regulations we had to conform to actually were a form of accountability for me.
It gave me the motivation to do the best I could, knowing that someone was watching.
It also gave me an excuse to use when the kids asked why they had to do something. Well, I told them, I have to file quarterly reports telling the school what we did and I was NOT going to lie to the school about it. That really did shut them up.
And now I have records of what we did and used those records for transcripts for college.
I was actually on pretty good terms with the homeschool liaison in our first school district. We had some very candid talks about homeschooling.