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.
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.
Is there a homeschooler ping list? If so, will someone put me on it?
“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
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
Corrections welcome, but not only is there is no constitutionally enumerated right for parents to home-school their children, there’s no such right to schooling either.
So the local audits on home-schooling parents are another example of constitutionally unchecked 10th Amendment-protected state powers imo.
Voters can resolve the issue with their 10th Amendment-protected voting power. But bear in mind that low-information voters are arguably their own worst enemies in such matters.
Home-schooling “rights” are probably going to remain a loose-cannon issue with activist judges on both sides of the fence fighting each other until the much-neglected Constitution is appropriately amended or voters get their act together.
Again, corrections, insights welcome.
There should be random audits of school children period.
Maybe they could learn something.
There is at least one company that sells hours by the month in legal services. We’ve belonged to it and have paid in for years. Now, we have oodles of time we can use.
Protection.
We can’t afford to pay a retainer to a lawyer.
How dare those pesky home schooled kids whup ars on the gubmint indoctrinated chilun at those spelling bees every year. Makes the union goons look bad!
Public School is Child Abuse.
“As such, they are required to provide instruction in various subjects for at least 1,062 hours over a minimum of 170 days each school term.”
When will public schools be required to provide 1,062 hours of actual *instruction* per school term?
The average non-special-needs student is unlikely to receive even 1/4 of that much “instruction” in a term.
The focus should be on measuring *outputs* (skills and knowledge gained) vs. *inputs* (time spent sitting at a desk, money spent per pupil, etc.). Of course, the public-schooling establishment dreads being held accountable for actual results achieved.
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Homeschool families in Clinton County, Kentucky, were surprised to see themselves mentioned in their local paper as a topic of discussion during the recent school board meeting. On May 18, the Clinton County News reported that local school officials intend to conduct random audits of area homeschool families this summer because they want to “ensure that all children in our county are getting a rigorous and effective education.”
I hope they are applying that standard to themselves as well.
“One reason we need more homeschool parents running for school board.”
True, but also a reason why homeschoolers should NEVER let others know what they’re doing, if at all possible. Simply tell your (nosy) neighbors that your kids are in a PRIVATE school, and stop there. There’s nothing to be gained by telling mainstream Americans you’re homeschooling...simply because they are unable to comprehend why you might be doing it.