Anonymous
Post 04/29/2020 21:13     Subject: Re:Talk me down from pulling my kid out of school
We have a similar elementary school child, except that ours has some serious areas of weakness due to his dysgraphia. He is also a second grader.

We are focusing on the skills we see as important for him: typing, writing, spelling, and math facts. He is reading regularly but he likes reading so that is not much of an 'assignment'.

We are ignoring most of the mindless assignments they are sending -- -lots of them can be managed with a one sentence answer (as mentioned earlier). Engaging in mindless tasks related to learning the parts of a plant, or responding to a question about an audiobook is not useful for my child.

We are updating teachers regularly with what we are doing instead so that it doesn't seem like we are just opting out.

We will not un-enroll in order to keep the door open and IEP in place. I don't think that there will be negative repercussions to doing our own thing at this time. Also, it's better to have differentiated instruction for my kid (and most, but especially SN kids).
Anonymous
Post 04/29/2020 08:24     Subject: Re:Talk me down from pulling my kid out of school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:As much as I want to unenroll both my kid, we would lose the IEP and start the fall without modifications and services.[u]
So we’re just doing whatever works for our family (2 parents working at home, 3 kids ... we can’t possibly oversee all that school work.)
There is no possible way for them to retain a child because they can’t guarantee that all kids have access to a learning environment.
I think as long as it looks like you “attended” it will be fine.


This isn't true, unless possibly the kid is out of school so long that their eligibility expires.

According to our principal/district, if I withdraw to hone school, we close the IEP protections. The principal then selects a test that my child has to take - unaccommodated - as evidence of learning. This is possibly illegal, but I don’t have the bandwidth right know to tackle it.


When you have the bandwidth, find and call your local homeschooling advocacy organization. They will most likely be able to give you information about how homeschooling affects IEP related issues. I wouldn't count on accurate information from the school district, the money they get for your kid being enrolled creates a conflict of interest, to say the least.
Anonymous
Post 04/27/2020 16:24     Subject: Re:Talk me down from pulling my kid out of school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:As much as I want to unenroll both my kid, we would lose the IEP and start the fall without modifications and services.[u]
So we’re just doing whatever works for our family (2 parents working at home, 3 kids ... we can’t possibly oversee all that school work.)
There is no possible way for them to retain a child because they can’t guarantee that all kids have access to a learning environment.
I think as long as it looks like you “attended” it will be fine.


This isn't true, unless possibly the kid is out of school so long that their eligibility expires.

According to our principal/district, if I withdraw to hone school, we close the IEP protections. The principal then selects a test that my child has to take - unaccommodated - as evidence of learning. This is possibly illegal, but I don’t have the bandwidth right know to tackle it.


What state are you in?

You do not have IEP protections while in homeschool, but reenrolling automatically reinstates them. The exception to that would be if you were in a state like Ohio, where there is a scholarship that students who qualify for an IEP can get to pay for private school or, if homeschooled, for therapies. If you accept that money then you are giving up FAPE for the year.
Anonymous
Post 04/27/2020 13:11     Subject: Re:Talk me down from pulling my kid out of school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My kid is not SN but I am not doing the zoom or assignments. I told the teacher that as we are both working ( esential/firstresponders) the schedule and time/effort don't make sense and I would keep DD engaged myself. I do make her read every day and do one book report a week, daily math that you can find online that is grade level. We also go for hikes/walks/bike rides, she practices her instrument every day and we do an art/craft project about twice a week ( Pinterest is my friend).

Life is so much better. They will NOT be behind, they are not really learning new work, Our elem kids will be ok.


I don't get if there are no SN or other reasons why your child cannot do it. Any older elementary not SN should be able to do most themselves and just younger ones need help.



I am the PP. I will give you an example why. My kid is 7 and in 2nd grade and quite a good reader. Last weeks reading assignment thru mcps was to " listen to" not read 2 different texts. One was a story about Alexander Graham Bell and the other was a short poem about buffalo. The work assignment was to compare the two and write which one you liked best. My DD wrote " I liked the buffalo poem because I like animals"
So there was no reading actually involved and the writing was one sentence, yes she could have written more but she thought they were both lame so.......We also had to be online for zoom when one of us is at work and the other one is usually sleeping due to being shift workers/1st responders.

This week ( after opting out of the mcps reading/literacy) she read the book Malala and then wrote a one page book report with a beginning middle and end about Malala's story. We have also talked about how lucky we are to live where we do. compared to other parts of the world. So my plan is to have her keep reading every day and do one book report a week.


I'm confused. Why can't she spend the 10 minutes or so on the school assigned work AND read Malala's book and write a book report? It's not either-or.

As for OP, I agree with the others that your best bet is probably to stay enrolled, but don't stress about completing everything.
Maybe identify one task per subject for the week that *must* get done, but let your daughter have some control over when/where/how.
Good luck!
Anonymous
Post 04/27/2020 13:07     Subject: Re:Talk me down from pulling my kid out of school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:As much as I want to unenroll both my kid, we would lose the IEP and start the fall without modifications and services.[u]
So we’re just doing whatever works for our family (2 parents working at home, 3 kids ... we can’t possibly oversee all that school work.)
There is no possible way for them to retain a child because they can’t guarantee that all kids have access to a learning environment.
I think as long as it looks like you “attended” it will be fine.


This isn't true, unless possibly the kid is out of school so long that their eligibility expires.

According to our principal/district, if I withdraw to hone school, we close the IEP protections. The principal then selects a test that my child has to take - unaccommodated - as evidence of learning. This is possibly illegal, but I don’t have the bandwidth right know to tackle it.
Anonymous
Post 04/27/2020 11:02     Subject: Re:Talk me down from pulling my kid out of school
Anonymous wrote:As much as I want to unenroll both my kid, we would lose the IEP and start the fall without modifications and services.[u]
So we’re just doing whatever works for our family (2 parents working at home, 3 kids ... we can’t possibly oversee all that school work.)
There is no possible way for them to retain a child because they can’t guarantee that all kids have access to a learning environment.
I think as long as it looks like you “attended” it will be fine.


This isn't true, unless possibly the kid is out of school so long that their eligibility expires.