Anonymous wrote:Is this a serious post? People with NO KIDS pay taxes. Why would homeschool parents be any different?

Actually most homeschoolers are not in favor of this. I have read many threads on the Well trained Mind and the majority did not want this at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Methinks a few homeschoolers are throwing out a bunch of random posts to demonstrate there is enough traffic for a separate homeschooling forum.

This is one that would cause a strong reaction and thus increase traffic.

It's a new kind of troll--The Traffic Troll

I agree--someone recently asked Jeff for a homeschooling forum and he said there isn't enough traffic. In the last few days there have been an inordinate number of posts on homeschooling. I wonder if they are all started by the same 1-2 people

If it is the same poster - at least Jeff will be able to ascertain that.

Is this a serious post? People with NO KIDS pay taxes. Why would homeschool parents be any different?

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Yes you have to apply for it, but it's about $20k(about a 2/3 the cost per student) in DC. I know they do the same in Va and Md. No one talks about b/c they don't want everyone doing.


Documentation, please.

They give you the forms when you inform the school district that you are home schooling. You will not find on a website b/c if it got out all the private school people will want the same.

Hogwash! We homeschooled in the district and there is no such thing. I am not in support of such a thing either. I do think what California offers is interesting though. They have charter schools that homeschoolers can choose to use that supply a choice of curricula and some oversight.

It seems the key word is "public". As in public schools. I pay taxes for lots of stuff that I don't use - new road construction in Clarksburg, expansion of a firehouse in upper Montgomery County, a library in Silver Spring, subsidies to Metro, submarines in the south Pacific, food aid to Africa, etc.

I also pay taxes for public schools that I don't "use" because we homeschool. It's OK. Government is not a fee for service organization.

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Yes you have to apply for it, but it's about $20k(about a 2/3 the cost per student) in DC. I know they do the same in Va and Md. No one talks about b/c they don't want everyone doing.


Documentation, please.

They give you the forms when you inform the school district that you are home schooling. You will not find on a website b/c if it got out all the private school people will want the same.

Oh, man, really? First the PP at 9:11 says they're a card-carrying Democrat, and I'm thinking, "I'm as Democratic as the PP; how come I didn't get my card?" And now you tell me that all the other homeschoolers get $20,000 from the school district upon notification of homeschooling, and I didn't get mine.

That's it, I'm going back to bed.

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Yes you have to apply for it, but it's about $20k(about a 2/3 the cost per student) in DC. I know they do the same in Va and Md. No one talks about b/c they don't want everyone doing.


Documentation, please.

They give you the forms when you inform the school district that you are home schooling. You will not find on a website b/c if it got out all the private school people will want the same.

Ha ha. This is hysterical.

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Yes you have to apply for it, but it's about $20k(about a 2/3 the cost per student) in DC. I know they do the same in Va and Md. No one talks about b/c they don't want everyone doing.


Documentation, please.

They give you the forms when you inform the school district that you are home schooling. You will not find on a website b/c if it got out all the private school people will want the same.

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Anonymous wrote:There is a homeschooling forum. It is called Mothering.com.

Yes but it would be great of there was a local one for the DC metro area since this area is loaded with homeschoolers. I think there should be a sub forum here

No, it's not. This is a pretty liberal area. Homeschooling is the domain of religious nut jobs, although a few "crunch mamas" have tried to jump on the bandwagon in recent years.

Wake up and smell the coffee. If you research it a little you find that liberals revived homeschooling in the 1960s and 1970s. The fundies tried to co-opt it. Now, there are growing numbers of homeschoolers from all walks of life. Just sample some of the posts at the Well Trained Mind and you will see that there are many liberals and moderates who homeschool for non-religious reasons. We homeschooled for academic and special needs and we are card carrying Democrats. Liberals have always expressed inclusive ideals so why are you acting like a conservative who wants everyone to be the same??

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Anonymous wrote:There is a homeschooling forum. It is called Mothering.com.

Yes but it would be great of there was a local one for the DC metro area since this area is loaded with homeschoolers. I think there should be a sub forum here

There is:

http://www.leapingfromthebox.com/hs/elists/district.html

I'm not a homeschooler. All I did was google "DC homeschooling forum".

Yes but this site gets more traffic and supports every other kind of schooling in the DC metro area so why not homeschooling too?

Anonymous wrote:Yes you have to apply for it, but it's about $20k(about a 2/3 the cost per student) in DC. I know they do the same in Va and Md. No one talks about b/c they don't want everyone doing.

Documentation, please.

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Yes you have to apply for it, but it's about $20k(about a 2/3 the cost per student) in DC. I know they do the same in Va and Md. No one talks about b/c they don't want everyone doing.


This is complete horseshit.

You must not be a homeschooler.

Anonymous wrote:Yes you have to apply for it, but it's about $20k(about a 2/3 the cost per student) in DC. I know they do the same in Va and Md. No one talks about b/c they don't want everyone doing.

This is complete horseshit.

Yes you have to apply for it, but it's about $20k(about a 2/3 the cost per student) in DC. I know they do the same in Va and Md. No one talks about b/c they don't want everyone doing.

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No, it's not. This is a pretty liberal area. Homeschooling is the domain of religious nut jobs, although a few "crunch mamas" have tried to jump on the bandwagon in recent years.

How about that. I'm not a religious nut job (in fact, I'm non-religious). I'm also not a "crunch mama" (whatever that means). And I've homeschooled.

Since you're so smart, then, you know full well that you're an anomaly? Maybe all the religiously themed curricula you encountered when searching for materials might have served as a clue?

Homeschooling is a fringe activity. It doesn't need validation in this forum or Web site.

How did I know that you would dismiss me as an anomaly?

Yes, there are a lot of people who homeschool for religious reasons. Yes, there are a lot of people who homeschool because they oppose transforming creative young minds into cogs for the corporate capitalistic hegemony. But if you believe that those are the only people who homeschool, you haven't been paying attention.

Note also that I never said that I'm so smart, merely that I exist.

(I'm also kind of tickled by the idea that a homeschooling forum on DCUM would somehow "validate" homeschooling.)