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November 24, 2006, 8:01 am PST
 Quote From: scorpiopoodle Don't pay any attention to all these nay-sayers out there. A 26 year old woman on the show will say she feels like an outcast and couldn't relate to other kids. Well at 26 I felt like an outcast (and still do at 36), I couldn't relate well with other kids or people either - and I went to school all my life! I'm an only child of a small family and have always been extremely shy- even within my own family. How a person is socialized by their family, family friends and neighbors has just as much of an effect on a child's development as school does, maybe more because the family has a head start with the child. I know plenty of wonderfully socialized people who were homeshooled and some very screwed-up, depressed, introverted and lazy people who went all the way through the school system. Please don't give up because of the paperwork. Just ask the Department of Ed to send you the school's curriculum. Copy that in your own handwriting and send it in. I'm not saying to be dishonest. Stick to it as best you can and make changes as you like as long as you don't leave out necessary things. Oh, believe me, LOL...I have been doing the paperwork and have had no problems with my superintendent at all. He's been great! I just read a lot of homeschooling sites and magazines and have support groups of other homeschoolers who are not happy with the amount of paperwork required in our state. What happens is that we turn all this paperwork in along with a letter of intent at the beginning of the year, then the school replies with their acceptance or denial. We then have to submit quarterly progress reports and the results of a standardized test that we pay for and we make arrangements for our children to take. The only thing the school does is submit our paperwork to the state, and heck, we could do that ourselves. Lots of homeschoolers in the state of NY do not have access to anything that the public schools offer that is extra-curricular, and in rural areas, this can be a problem for them (it isn't for our family, fortunately). We still have to pay school taxes, so I can understand how the elderly feel who have to pay school taxes and don't have children in school. I think NY should come up with a better system for that. We also cannot use any of our out of pocket expenditures for homeschooling as a tax write off, and I just found a great deal on a compound microscope for my biology student; however, it was still expensive. There are a lot of things like this that I am sure the Dr. Phil show didn't have time to address in one show. |
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