Posted on 05/24/2016 3:31:33 PM PDT by Sopater
Here’s the newspaper article that is mentioned: http://clintonnews.net/pages/?p=21021
Not surprised. If they’re audited pay up. Don’t count on some accountant to help them. He’ll promise all and by the time he’s through, they’ll owe thousands of dollars.
Persecution for all those who don’t follow the party line - didn’t Lenin get this going first?
If I lived there, I’d instruct my children to not answer the door and I’d have the number to HSLDA on speed dial.
Hopefully it starts to rain while the auditor is waiting on the front porch to speak with my attorney.
I might even be tempted to install a sprinkler system with a hidden indoor switch.
I have no problem with random audits. I do have problem with an agenda other than to ensure the children are being taught to read, write and mathematics. I think there should be random audits of public schools and teachers and classes too. But I think the union prohibits that.
If homeschoolers are targeted, it isn’t exactly “random”.
That IS a primary reason why parents home school. The goverment bullies presume (project) that something nefarious is going on because it's *their* nature to cheat, scam, and perpetrate vile, unspeakable things.
Yup, best to keep the kiddos out of the clutches of these lying reprobates.
Bkmrk.
The Home School Legal Defense Fund (HSLDA) is a non-profit membership organization, and the annual dues of $120 pay for advice and representation. From what I've heard, they're good--i.e., they have a well-regarded record of successfully telling school officials and other bureaucrats to take a hike, often with just some coaching or a phone call.
Is there a homeschooler ping list? If so, will someone put me on it?
Thanks for the info. But how swamped are they? These things must be dealt with quickly and most organizations - no matter how well-meant - put people on a long, long waiting list. And by the time they come up, they’re owing thousands upon thousands.
Until we get rid of the IRS and run those bureaucrats into the streets - we’re stuck with them.
It was a requirement by or ‘cover school’ to join HSLDA. Best $$$ ever spent.
“Jimmie, Suzie, that stranger in the living room is a government monitor, he is one of the many reasons why we no longer live in a free country.”
Could be a great educational lesson
That’s a non sequitur. There is a vast chasm of oversight between home schooled children and children attending a public or private school.
The biggest problem I have with local oversight on home schooled children is that they prefer to use a stick instead of a carrot and it seems, at least in the conservative news that the recommended remedy is to take the children away from the parents or levy scurrilous child abuse charges.
There are so many more helpful and constructive ways to help parents home school, but they’re never explored due to loss of funds to the school district and the influence of the public sector teachers unions.
The publick skrewel bureaucrats are going to keep pushing until a few of them wind up shot.
Try to march into my house without a search warrant, and you’ll see it happen here.
Ping
Why have kids if they are going to treated as second class citizens...
Better if you have kids to have them “un-documented”
They will end up with more rights.... apparently
No offense, but you would be wrong. Homeschoolers generally do so to be free of government school interference.
Once they are allowed in the door such as through an audit, they are then free to dictate what you may and may not teach because the audit didn’t show that you were teaching the beauty of transgenderism and evolution.
Plus that, the law in Kentucky seems clear Random audits are not part of the law, therefore, they are not allowed. Period.
HSLDA exists to protect the rights of home educators, to stay on top of the laws so that they can advise us of what we shall and shall not be subject to and to represent home educators if they are challenged by extra-legal dictates like this.
We are into our second decade of home education, heading down the home stretch and have been HSLDA members since before we even began.
That's not what I hear. And I definitely would hear. Catholic home schooling is booming all over TriState, plus Evangelical brick-and-mortar schools and home schools. And Hasidim and Orthodox Jews rule their own worlds. In Manhattan, home schooling isn't big, but I know some. Part of the landscape, and increasingly accepted--and notorious for winning contests.
When it starts to seriously chew into public school budgets, things could get ugly. It depends what else is happening at the time.
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