** NEED HELP (Advice) please read ***

[mugsy]

So serious question: how does homeschooling work? You have to get permission from the state, or else you get a visit from The Man?

To get lots of good info go to the Home School Legal Defense Association website:
www.hslda.org

Oklahoma has a very liberal (with a small L) homeschooling system - and it is the only State with a constitutional protection of the right to homeschool. HSLDA has a state by state rule link that you can use to look up any state's rules.

However, DO NOT confuse true homeschooling (parents creating or choosing an alternate curriculum and functioning as teacher, coach, mentor, and principal) with the "public school at home" option - the latter basically has the parents sign up to become unpaid extensions of the public school system. The curriculum is provided by the public school system but the user is agreeing to uphold and comply with all of the public school reporting requirements and any other requirements binding upon public school attendees.

We have home schooled for years across three continents and multiple school systems - so if you have more questions please feel free to PM.

 

[J.P.]

No disrespect intended here at all....

When someone like *me* who has two teenage daughters reads about a person who is probably actually a responsible parent getting turned in for such foolishness, I chuckle.
Jeez....if I'm not tellin' DHS or City/County which hole to stick it in -at least- once a month I don't know what I'd do for entertainment...

Sorry for your troubles DrHK...like I said, no disrepect.
Best of luck!

Gotta' go......I'm trying to find which local agency will *properly* remove/cleanup the frikkin' meth lab in the alley.....

 

[Dr. HK]

Thanks Mugsy. No problem JP. I just was taken back by the entire incident. I never seem to get the entire picture until I am immersed in the situation. Getting something second hand I always lose something.

 

[Old Fart]

Yeah because nobody ever gets into a car wreck during early morning rush hour either.

Two of those refer to the same incident. Even if I give you all six, though, would you allow your kid to play sports? Because a lot more children get injured that way.

Just off the top of my head, here's a study on the dangers of high-school football. More dangerous than college, even: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC155424/

Other sports have serious injuries associated, too. So--would you endanger your kids by letting them play sports, or are you going to wrap them in bubble pack their whole lives?

Hey guys get your panties out of your crack.

I was jes' sayin'

Increase your fiber intake and loosen up.

 

[sanjuro893]

OK had our meeting with the Principle and Vice Principle. Yes we were late in excess. However they agreed that the process of dropping off your child is flawed. So they do not have a certain number of tardies equal an absence. So I asked why were we reported to the DA? To which they stated they sent out a letter October 2011 and we did not respond to the letter. So I stated, so when were the follow up calls, or follow up parent teacher conferences? This is the first we have heard of this when the DA called. Needless to say I explained how the process was flawed, and the Principle agreed. So essentially the DA was contacted to get our attention. So there is no issues from here going forward unless we continue to drop our kids off late without informing the principle.

Also you have to live a certain distance from the school to ride a bus. We live too close to be able to ride the bus.

I'm glad everything worked out okay and they had some common sense about it.

 

[sanjuro893]

What has the world come to when a child being 4 minutes late to school is a matter for the district attorney to address, and not the school?



What do you know, when adults sit down and have a face to face meeting about a simple problem, a solution is found. Just goes to prove my point that the DA nonsense is absurd. Christ, this is like the white trash on COPS that call 911 to solve their marital disputes. Grow up and learn to use your words; this is not what law enforcement is for.

The school should have made a serious effort to talk to you and your wife face to face if they thought the problem was that serious. Period. Unless you guys were ignoring requests from the school to have a meeting, the school is the bigger goober in this scenario.

LOL! Amen to that!

 

[HMFIC]

We're from the Government and we're here to help.

I believe any communication with the DA would have to go through my attorney. I wouldn't even be talking to them at all.

 

[shooterdave]

They will turn in a parent to the DA for excessive tardiness, yet won't even attempt to discipline or fire teachers whose students are not making even baseline minimum scores on achievement Test? WTF?

 

[Honey Badger]

They will turn in a parent to the DA for excessive tardiness, yet won't even attempt to discipline or fire teachers whose students are not making even baseline minimum scores on achievement Test? WTF?

So we go from parents NOT taking responsibility for their kids and their actions to teacher bashing? You know.... as a teacher I can tell you that a students attitude towards education closely mimics the attitude of the parent/s in the home. If it isn't important enough for the parent to get the kid to school on time, or see that the kid even goes to school the student is not not likely to concern themselves with doing well academically or on state tests. Yet it's the teachers obligation to put on a dog and pony show every day to appease the masses. Do my job for a while and then make statements about us not doing our jobs.


EDIT: I will grant that there are some old timers that are close to retirement who don't worry about test scores! OR coaches who are more concerned about W's than they are about educating kids..... Oh and I am a coach but I don't fall into that pile.

 

[thegomezclan]

Here is the info about homeschooling in Oklahoma from the HSLDA website "Oklahoma law does not require parents to use certified teachers or state-approved curricula, initiate
contact with, register with or seek approval from state or local officials, test their students or permit public
school officials to visit or inspect homes. If a parent is teaching his children the basic subjects for at least
180 days, the law requires nothing more."