Homeschooling Online - Guidelines To Applying For Homeschooling - Part 5
In our last post here with regard to the guidelines to applying for homeschooling, we will look at the fourth and final guideline. This particular guideline deals with the evaluation process of the student. As with kids in public or private school, certain assessment measures have to be taken to evaluate whether or not the student is actually learning the material. We will highlight some of those measures here.
Guideline #4
School officials and parents have to agree on certain ways to the learning process of homeschooling children. These may include any of the following approaches:
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Standardized testing,
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Progress reports,
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Dated work samples.
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Other methods of assessment, if agreed upon by parents and school officials, are also allowed.
You need to choose one form of assessment that best fits your own individual style of homeschooling - either testing, progress reports or dated work samples. Some families prefer to use different methods of assessment for different children. As mentioned before, when submitting your application material, it is recommended that you add a line such as
“An annual progress report/dated work sample/standardized test results will be submitted upon request”
Once you have submitted a plan that includes information that is outlined by the guidelines, you can rest assured that you have fulfilled your responsibility for homeschooling.
Once complete, from here you can either hand deliver your plan to the school and ask for a receipt or mail it via certified mail. Depending on what town you live in, you may or may not hear anything from your school once you’ve submitted your plan. If it is important to you to receive approval in writing, you can specifically request so in your application.
If the home school proposal is rejected for some reason, the superintendent or the school committee must provide you details of the reasons for their decision. Parents must then be given an opportunity to correct or change their proposal in order to fix the needed changes.
However, if parents start homeschooling their children in spite of the school committee’s refusal to approve their proposal, the burden of proof moves to the school committee as a way to show that the instruction outlined in the home school proposal fails to meet the standards of the public schools in the same town.
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