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| Date: From: Subject: | 10/11/2006 4:27:36 PM Home School Legal Defense Association North Carolina--DNPE Seeks Meeting at Police Station |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== October 11, 2006 North Carolina--DNPE Seeks Meeting at Police Station Dear HSLDA members: On October 9, 2006, the North Carolina Division of Non-Public Education (DNPE) sent a letter to some homeschooling families in the Raleigh/Johnston County area requesting that they meet with a representative of DNPE on November 2 to review their school records. Parents agreeing to meet with the state official are required to bring their children to the police station along with attendance, immunization, and standardized test records to be reviewed. Parents have the option of also bringing a textbook list, a daily log/lesson plan book, and samples of each student's work for review by the state official. HSLDA recommends that our member families decline to participate in this or any other such meetings conducted by DNPE. There are two reasons for this: > First, state law does not authorize DNPE to conduct such meetings or require homeschooling families to participate in such meetings. > Second, state law only authorizes DNPE to inspect standardized test records, not attendance and immunization records. Parents must maintain attendance and immunization records, but they are not subject to routine inspection. Certainly DNPE has no authority to require parents to bring their children to a police station or anywhere else for any meetings. What does the law require you to do? Sections 115C-549 and 115C-557 of the General Statutes of North Carolina state that for one year after the standardized testing, the records must be made available for annual inspection at the principal office of the school at all reasonable times. This means that a DNPE official may come to your home, but not enter your home, to inspect the test results. We recommend that any such inspection be done on the front porch, not inside your home. The letter from DNPE instructs the homeschooling families who cannot attend the meeting to contact DNPE within ten days to advise DNPE of this. Although the letter states that the meeting is voluntary, it is unknown what DNPE intends to do if a family does not reply to the letter. In the past, DNPE has closed homeschools it has not been able to contact. For this reason, we recommend that families deciding not to attend the meeting send a letter to DNPE stating so. If you have any questions concerning this matter or encounter any difficulty with state officials, please do not hesitate to contact us for assistance. Very truly yours, Dewitt T. Black, III Senior Counsel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> How many of your friends would pay your legal fees? 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