Posted on 11/11/2004 9:09:25 PM PST by atari
which states are the best for homeschooling?
I was going to do some computer research, but I figured it would be better to listen to people who have tried it and how it worked out in their state.
Texas.
I've home schooled in three states, Wisconsin, South Carolina, and New Hampshire. I was left alone in Wisconsin and New Hampshire. I liked Wisconsin best because we only had to submit the ages of the children we were home schooling, and there were no assessments required. New Hampshire requires a letter of intent with the names and grades of the children and an end-of-year assessment procedure of our choosing. South Carolina was the worst, as we joined SCAIHS and had to submit wordy evaluations every quarter, if I remember correctly. New Hampshire tried to get health information on my kids, and I sicced the HSLDA on them, which put an end to that. I did hear that some people in Wisconsin, who lived in a different school district than we did, got hassled. I think it sometimes depends on who's in charge in your local school district, their attitude toward home schooling, and the amount of time on their hands.
My kid is two!
She was right, they didn't!
Luckily, both sons' sons (1 1/2 and 8mos.) much prefer the sippy cups, which is a great relief to me. In our families, Grandma (or Mi-mi) is seen as the last resort for bottle, bed and bathroom training. I think it's because I've done it twice and nobody died or required extensive therapy!
OK, I am a terrible one to ask, being that my kids could sing the alphabet before they gave theirs up, but...
my SIL, who successfully weaned her daughter off of them at about 1 1/2 yrs., is now trying to wean her 1 y.o., and she has some nifty products that are helping. She has some system of sippies that start out with a bottle nipple (but shaped like a cup), then it goes on to moving the nipple part to the edge of the cup, then a really soft sippy spout, then a regular spout. She also has taught him how to drink from a straw, and he thinks that's really cool! So far, he's at the soft sippy spout stage at meals, but he likes a regular bottle of warm milk before bedtime or a nap.
If you think this system might work for you, I will find out for you what brand it is and where she got it (but she's the biggest Target fan I know, so I would have a hunch that's where she got it). Good luck!
Actually, thats not it. I'm worried about the damage being done to the teeth and his bite. I've tried all the sippy bottles and even the ones that have a silicone tip like a bottle and he absolutely refuses.
We homeschool our three here in Colorado.After we got all of them out of the inept and thoroughly corrupt local school district, we haven't had any problems or interference. Colorado only requires a "letter of intent" to remove them from public school and an evaluation by a private, qualified person every two years.
BTW, I'm looking for Switched-On Schoolhouse subject disks for 6th and 8th grades. Buying them new costs and arm and a leg. If anybody here has the disks or knows someone who does please FReep mail me with a price. I'd really appreciate it.
Check out the last sentence in this article from HSLDA.org.
http://hslda.org/elert/archive/2004/02/20040217141734.asp
I don't understand why Texas is considered to be the most litigious state concerning homeschooling since it's so easy to homeschool there.
I agree, we too home school here in Maine and think it is one of the easier and best states to do it in.
NJ is pretty good. Low regulations, but then there was that stink last year about the four starving children whose parents "homeschooled" them. They didn't of course, but that's the excuse they used to not send them to school. The Department of Youth and Family Services (DYFS or DUFUS as we like to call it)had their minions in the home like 15 times in two years and couldn't spot anything wrong.
Well, now there are a couple of bills in the legislature that are pretty restrictive, but they don't seem to be going anywhere.
I have to laugh because a new State Assistant District Attorney who is now coordinating with DYFS to try to clean up the mess had been homeschooled himself.
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