[Sopater]

up to two annual portfolio reviews by the OSSE to determine whether a homeschool program, in OSSE’s opinion, is providing “regular, thorough instruction” in the required subjects. No guidelines are provided by the Board giving the OSSE arbitrary discretion to implement these provisions.

Houston, we have a problem here. Over.

[goldstategop]

It IS socialism! DC's educrats are determined to make sure tender young minds are not left free of the state's value-free, socialist indoctrination.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[JRandomFreeper]

I'm pretty laid back, but it's almost time to call for armed resistance to crap like this.

/johnny

[doodad]

And having been a high school age student some 20 years ago in the DC area, it is amazing that their track record of regular education is not shaming them regularly.

I was lucky enough to have parents who sent my brother and I to private schools at that critical time in our education. Thanks Mom and Dad for the sacrifice.

[LearsFool]

Lockridge likened the new power of the Superintendent over parents as a type of “socialism.”

Gee, you don't say? I'm shocked...shocked!

The ability of "professional educators" to grasp the obvious is staggering.

[driftdiver]

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[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Pennsylvania is not friendly to homeschooling. They require a portfolio to be submitted to the local school district every year; you have to hire a professional evaluator to interview and examine the homeschooled student; you have to keep a detailed log showing 900 hours; and you have to provide proof of medical exams and dental exams and hearing checks and vaccinations, or bring the child to the school nurse for all these things.
And yes, even the private physician now insists on a private consultation with the child, no parents allowed to hear what is said.
The atmosphere is such that discretion is the better part of valor. You keep your head down, jump the hoops as demanded and pay those HSLDA dues just in case.

[rackatoot]

It's real, but kind of weird that DC has a State Board of Education.

[metmom]

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[metmom]

What else can you expect from a place that flaunts the Constitution when it comes to the Second Amendment?

I guess they think it doesn’t apply to them.

[petitfour]

When did D.C. become a State? So much for the U.S. Constitution.

[Impy]

DC State board? They need to go back to school.

[MrB]

Say, remember what I said about gov’t having the monopoly on the legal use of deadly force to impose its will on people?

This is what we homeschoolers have our backs up about - some government school “know better” busybody socialist using the GUNS of government to make sure we can’t educate our kids as WE parents see fit.

[Old Mountain man]

Just wait until they start rejecting the portfolios as “unsatisfactory”, even is they would be suitable for a PhD candidate.

Professional educators are the bottom of the academic barrel.

[EDINVA]

“State” Board of Education is a joke, right? DC is not a state. But, given the DC Public Schools astronomically high rankings, and record of notable achievement, they should insist all students attend their institutions.

Need I say /sarc?