Comments on: Why I’m Glad to Be Homeschooling in California Right Now http://melissawiley.com/blog/2008/03/10/im-glad-to-be-homeschooling-in-california-right-now/ Children's Book Author Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:07:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Dorothy Beckmann http://melissawiley.com/blog/2008/03/10/im-glad-to-be-homeschooling-in-california-right-now/comment-page-1/#comment-10336 Dorothy Beckmann Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:33:21 +0000 http://melissawiley.com/blog/2008/03/10/im-glad-to-be-homeschooling-in-california-right-now/#comment-10336 Homeschoolers typically have very busy calendars and too many opportunities for socialization because they get together weekly with other families through homeschool support group PARK DAYS! At Park Days, parents ask questions and get information about every aspect of homeschooling while kids meet and play with homeschool friends. As parents share resources they will often cobble together field trips, co-op classes, math competitions, spelling bees, homeschool choirs and bands, and even parties and proms based on their children’s interests and needs. Homeschoolers typically have very busy calendars and too many opportunities for socialization because they get together weekly with other families through homeschool support group PARK DAYS! At Park Days, parents ask questions and get information about every aspect of homeschooling while kids meet and play with homeschool friends. As parents share resources they will often cobble together field trips, co-op classes, math competitions, spelling bees, homeschool choirs and bands, and even parties and proms based on their children’s interests and needs.

]]> By: AHA Citizen Journal » Is it time for California homeschoolers to panic? http://melissawiley.com/blog/2008/03/10/im-glad-to-be-homeschooling-in-california-right-now/comment-page-1/#comment-6608 AHA Citizen Journal » Is it time for California homeschoolers to panic? Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:07:00 +0000 http://melissawiley.com/blog/2008/03/10/im-glad-to-be-homeschooling-in-california-right-now/#comment-6608 [...] Here in the Bonny Glenn [...] [...] Here in the Bonny Glenn [...]

]]> By: WendyinVA http://melissawiley.com/blog/2008/03/10/im-glad-to-be-homeschooling-in-california-right-now/comment-page-1/#comment-6466 WendyinVA Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:11:19 +0000 http://melissawiley.com/blog/2008/03/10/im-glad-to-be-homeschooling-in-california-right-now/#comment-6466 Thank you for a reasonable post on this issue. :o) Thank you for a reasonable post on this issue. :o )

]]> By: JoVE http://melissawiley.com/blog/2008/03/10/im-glad-to-be-homeschooling-in-california-right-now/comment-page-1/#comment-6456 JoVE Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:59:31 +0000 http://melissawiley.com/blog/2008/03/10/im-glad-to-be-homeschooling-in-california-right-now/#comment-6456 You make an interesting point about compulsory education laws. I'm wondering do you have compulsory "education" or compulsory "schooling". Seems like the former could easily encompass homeschooling while the latter is more problematic. In Ontario, where I live, we have compulsory education. The law says something like children are required to attend school unless they are receiving a satisfactory education at home. There is a policy document that spells out whose responsibility it is to ensure that (no ones, unless there is reason to believe that the child is receiving UNsatisfactory education, in which case there are procedures. The policy also explicitly spells out that not following the same curriculum or using the same methods as schools does not in itself constitute reason to believe education is unsatisfactory.) It is also my understanding that not all court rulings set precedents. But I'm not sure why not or how that works. Maybe that "unpublish" thing is related to that. You make an interesting point about compulsory education laws. I’m wondering do you have compulsory “education” or compulsory “schooling”. Seems like the former could easily encompass homeschooling while the latter is more problematic.

In Ontario, where I live, we have compulsory education. The law says something like children are required to attend school unless they are receiving a satisfactory education at home. There is a policy document that spells out whose responsibility it is to ensure that (no ones, unless there is reason to believe that the child is receiving UNsatisfactory education, in which case there are procedures. The policy also explicitly spells out that not following the same curriculum or using the same methods as schools does not in itself constitute reason to believe education is unsatisfactory.)

It is also my understanding that not all court rulings set precedents. But I’m not sure why not or how that works. Maybe that “unpublish” thing is related to that.

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