Home Schooling New York State

What is the difference between home schooling and "public" school? What are the requirements for home schooling? Which is better and why?

Personally I prefer to homeschool for many reasons. My children are well educated, well mannered, and mature for their age. They have time to explore their dreams and be involved in the community as well. We go out and spend time with others and the kids are very content and happy and ask every week, what we will be studying the next week!! My kids went to public school, and I pulled them out for they were lost in the crowd and did not have the chance to be themselves and exceed to their full potential. I believe that not everyone should be homeschooled though. It takes alot of time on the parents part, the will of the kids to learn, and the willingness of the family to operate outside the Norm. To find exact state laws, I would highly suggest going to www.HSLDA.com.
They stay up to date on current homeschool rules and regulations. I would also suggest if you are going to homeschool to gain member ship to HSLDA. They are very helpful and will keep you informed on affairs in your state. I hope this helps, if you have any more questions, please email me, and I will help you all I can.

2006-08-08 17:04:17 by silentknight64

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i want to be home schooled, but NY has really strict laws about home schooling. and i was wondering..... how does it like work? like don't you have to prove to the state that you have actually doing work, and not just watching tv all day? how do you do that?

also, how do you prove about gym class? like, there isn't really a way to show, "look, i ran 2 miles yesterday". how do you do that?

Yes, New York has one of the more stringent (strict) homeschool laws, but thousand of people meet them every year. First you and your parents must be committed to the process and follow the legal guidelines exactly.

The first thing it to keep accurate records of attendance and instruction.
I'd encourage you to get a homeschool record keeping software. You can download homeschool tracker free. Then each day record all your work and grades in this record. At the required times you can print out detailed reports of class time, instructional time, grades, etc. This can then be presented as verification.
For Gym, yes that is exactly what you would do. Log date, miles run, and time spent doing warm up, running, and cool down exercises. The log could look something like this:
4/25/2009: Gym: Objective, running 2 mi w/warm up and cool down: Time 35 min. Another log for Gym activities would be if you joined a sports team. All the time at practice and games is logged as Gym Class. My boys attended a Weekly Bible Club and had a one-hour game time. I logged this as their weekly gym class. They had an annual Olympics day each spring competing against other churches. For 2 months prior to the Olympics the team met 2 hours each Saturday to practice. I included this in their Gym log. The day of the Olympics I logged the 6 hour meet as Gym keeping the Program as verification.
And don't be overwhelmed by the total number of hours required per day. Remember when you are doing daily activities, that is also part of your education. If you are bike riding with friends, that is also Gym time, just remember to log it. Are you reading to younger siblings, that could be Literature. Reading a book for your own pleasure is also Literature which can count for part of Language Arts Class. Attend a play or concert? That is Fine Arts. Cooking dinner with Mom, cleaning the house. That is Home Ec. Just be sure to log the time and possibly an objective.
With a little work on your part and with the help of your parent(s) you can do this

2009-04-25 07:24:42 by funny6612

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I home school my kids. One is in pre-k, one in grade 2 and the eldest is in grade 5. Please answer any of the following:

a) Which tests are mandatory and where can I find study and testing materials, test dates, etc.
b) I'd also like to test the grade 2 and grade 5 child in Biology, Technology, Piano/Music and Art; are there any tests available.

a) I'm assuming you have a basic understanding of your homeschool law and just want to see the testing portion 'close up'.

From here: http://www.hslda.org/laws/analysis/New_Y ork.pdf

Your state does have a lot (!) of other hoops to jump through, but here's what it says about testing:

You are required to "file an annual assessment with the last quarterly report. The assessment can either be a norm-referenced achievement test, or a written narrative evaluation."

"The achievement test can be administered by a certified teacher or by another “qualified person.” A certified teacher, a home instruction peer group review panel, or other person can conduct the written narrative evaluation. A parent could potentially administer the achievement test or conduct the written narrative evaluation. However, unless the assessment is administered at the local public school or a registered nonpublic school the parent is to choose the individual “with the consent of the superintendent.” We suggest simply notifying the superintendent of your choice in the third quarterly report."

"For grades one through three, the written narrative evaluation may be used. In grades four through eight, the written narrative evaluation may be used every other year. Beginning with ninth grade, standardized testing must be done every year."

So you need to do a norm-referenced achievement test with your oldest (since you did not do one last year) and either a norm-referenced test or a written narrative evaluation with your middle child. The youngest isn't required to be in school yet... and so isn't required to be evaluated.

I would contact your local homeschooling group to see how they recommend meeting the testing requirement. They may already have arrangements made to test together or may know what norm referenced test is cheapest/easiest to get for your purposes. They'll also know about study and testing materials and dates: http://www.home-school.com/groups/NY.htm l

b) I don't know of any widespread subject area testing for students so young. These sort of 'End of Course' exams are written for use statewide for many public high school subjects (in some states)... but then teachers have a very detailed list of goals to be teaching. Only you know what you and your curriculum have taught your students in these subjects. If your curriculum doesn't provide a end of course test then I believe you are going to need to make your own.

2008-11-20 02:50:02 by World P

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2008-09-02 21:20:22 by ebony w

However, I did home school my children.

here are the New York homeschooling laws

http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/laws /blNY.htm

2009-08-10 07:13:39 by jeanette s