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| Date: From: Subject: | 8/13/2008 4:55:47 PM Home School Legal Defense Association West Virginia: Education Official Seeks More Information Than Law Requires |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== West Virginia: Education Official Seeks More Information Than Law Requires Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: The Home School Coordinator for the Fayette County Board of Education has recently criticized some perfectly good notices of intent and demanded that the families provide more detail in their plan of instruction. HSLDA recommends that families provide only a list of subjects they will be teaching, and a principal textbook for each subject that uses a textbook when providing a plan of instruction. This is accepted in virtually every other county, and has been accepted for years even in Fayette County. The home school coordinator has been demanding that families list topics to be covered in each subject. This level of detail is not mandated under law. Likewise, it is not necessary to provide a table of contents or scope and sequence. West Virginia, like many other states, does not require that homeschool families teach any particular subjects. Therefore, when a family develops their plan of instruction for a coming year, the central part of their plan is the particular subjects they will teach. When a family provides a list of subjects, they are, in fact, providing their plan of instruction. We recommend including a name of a principal textbook as well because this is not intrusive, and may help avoid needless conflict. A home school coordinator has no legitimate need to know the topics a family will cover under any subject. The Board of Education does not need this information because they have no power to determine what topics a family should or should not cover. There is no point in giving them information when the law gives them no power over the topics a family may choose. HSLDA recommends that you avoid using Fayette County's notice of intent form. Instead, use the form available on the members-only section of the HSLDA website (http://members.hslda.org/state/WV/default.asp), or one very similar of your own making. Very truly yours, Scott A. Woodruff, Esq. HSLDA Staff Attorney ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> Will your friends stand by you in trouble? They will if you're an HSLDA member and your homeschool is threatened. HSLDA is ready to stand by your side along with 80,000 other homeschool families. More reasons to join HSLDA... http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=1105 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ====================================================================== The HSLDA E-lert Service is a service of: Home School Legal Defense Association P.O. Box 3000 Purcellville, Virginia 20134 Phone: (540) 338-5600 Fax: (540) 338-2733 Email: info@hslda.org Web: http://www.hslda.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- How To Subscribe: - Subscribe to the HSLDA E-lert Service at our website: https://secure.hslda.org/hslda/elert/account.asp?Process=Subscribe - Or send an email with name and complete mailing address to: subscribe@hslda.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscription Information: - You subscribed to the HSLDA E-lert Service as: ##ToAddress## - To unsubscribe from the HSLDA E-lert Service send an email from the email address you want to unsubscribe to: unsubscribe@hslda.org - To change your email address or make other changes to your subscription, visit the HSLDA E-lert Service account web page at: https://secure.hslda.org/hslda/elert/account.asp ---------------------------------------------------------------------- POSTMASTERS: This message is being sent to the most recent address we have for our subscribers. If this is an invalid email address or you have other problems, please reply to webmaster@hslda.org. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER: This is considered a private and confidential message from HSLDA to its bonafide HSLDA E-lert Service subscribers. HSLDA cannot attest to the authenticity of copies posted, forwarded, or sent by any party other than HSLDA. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: Please do not reply or otherwise use this email address; hslda@hslda.org is for broadcast purposes only and is not intended to receive incoming messages. We cannot reply to any email sent to this address. If you have comments or questions, please send email to info@hslda.org or call HSLDA at 540-338-5600. HSLDA members can also email staff directly through the Members website at http://members.hslda.org/contact.asp. Thank you for your cooperation. ====================================================================== | |
