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How to convince the unconvincible parents to take you out of home school?
04-15-2013, 01:06 PM
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Oh FUN. You're in a public school-at-home situation. In our state, the Department of Education (DoE) got into a political fight with the Legislature. The Legislature said, "We make the laws and we say you MUST provide an online school option."
The DoE said, "No way, we don't want to do that."
"Our constituents demand it. So do it."
DoE: "Fine."

And they set up an online option.

First, they made sure that seats were selected by lottery, so that you never knew if you'd get a place from year to year. Siblings might get a seat and you might not. Always a chance to toss you back into school.

Second, they upped the workload, so that the kids in the online program were required to do about TWICE the amount of work as the kids in the brick and mortar schools. This successfully drove a lot of online students back into the buildings.

Third, they failed to offer certain grade levels, so at particular intervals you were forced to go back into the school system.

Fourth, they marketed the online school to parents as the last-ditch resort to keep their kids from dropping out, or for those kids too physically or mentally fragile to be in a regular classroom.

This is not homeschool. You're being used. >:-(
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