quote: I know we're entitled to the services, but I worry we'll be pressured to put her in school.
It is so irritating the way some school districts and schools and administrators behave... Are you a member of the HSLDA? Everyone I've talked to about home schooling says it's a good idea, because if they start harassing you or implying that you're not going to get services unless she's in school, you can contact the HSLDA, and let their lawyers talk to their lawyers, which almost always clears things right up...
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quote:Know what's nuts? IN March a friend gave me a card to a spa with the offer to sit when I go, amd I haven't taken her up on it.
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HSLDA does have a distinctly *Christian* agenda. I think some of their stances are laugahble and inconsistent with their general logic for homeschooling because homeschooling is extremely libertarian if you look at the basic premises. However that said, even if you *aren't* Christian you should join if you are homeschooling, because of their guaranteed legal representation should you ever need it. And they are fantastic at arguing homeschooling cases. It's paying for insurance that you hope you never need.
They also sponsor a nation wide affordable testing program of the Stanford Achievement Tests for homeschoolers, that I strongly support. You need to make your kids get used to filling in bubbles on test forms when they are young, so that it isn't as stressful when it's a test that means something like on the SATs. You've already done tons of dress rehersals.
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I agree, AJ, they definitely have an agenda-- but as that agenda includes protecting the rights of homeschoolers, for whatever reason, I think it's definitely a good idea to join.
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I am leary of the HSLDA, mostly because I was on their e-mail list for a while, and they were sending anti-gay rights stuff. Definately not to do with homeschooling. And we can get the Stanford tests through our state HSA, which we belong to.
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See I'm of the opinion that subversion is the way to go to effect change from within. If more people joined without a Christian agenda, and made it clear that it was deterring still other people from joining, I suspect they'd become a little less virulent on a few topics. Join, let them get to know you and realize you aren't of the devil before you tell them what you really think.
I actually have met the guy who is the head of HSLDA, and he's not that abraisive in person. (My parents have friends who are were very good friends with the Ferris' for a while.) My parent's friends (well I played with their son when we were 5 but they really aren't my friends specifically) ended up relocating to a different part of the country but while they were in Virginia they were concerned with the direction the "start-up" homeschooler church in the area was going(it was founded by many of the HDLSA people) They felt it was becoming rather introverted, and unfortunately I believe it crept over into HSLDA.
The problem is that these people get so introverted that they end up surrounding themselves with only people that agree with them because being a homeschooler makes them wierd and they get tired of defending themselves. Being with people that agree with them is a such relief that they never come back out of their tortoise shells and interact with the rest of the world. I saw it happen to my mother over time...
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It is so irritating the way some school districts and schools and administrators behave... Are you a member of the HSLDA? Everyone I've talked to about home schooling says it's a good idea, because if they start harassing you or implying that you're not going to get services unless she's in school, you can contact the HSLDA, and let their lawyers talk to their lawyers, which almost always clears things right up...
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