This is a great alternative to ESAs and vouchers which make any private or homeschool a public school by default. I don't want a government handout--I opt out of the system.
Yes. We don't use Sarah Sanders' LEARNS Act because of the requirement that I must test my homeschooled children if I use that money. It's great that it's there for those who don't mind testing their kids, but, as I told my husband, we will use the library and free resources and I'll make up the curriculum as I go if it ever comes to it; I WILL NOT measure my children by the state's yardstick.
Good for you! We dislike testing as well, but the kicker is simply having the government create a back door into the details of my homeschool. We have eyes and can see how government destroys what it funds. I'll keep my homeschool truly private, thank you.
Ditto. As enticing it is to get some of our tax money back through charters to support homeschooling the headache that comes with it and the hoops you must go through to get a measly amount of support is not worth it. My family definitely could use that money for our children’s home education as we live on one low income in California but we found a way to do it low cost and still be able to stay out of the system. We may not be able to go to museums or take enrichment classes but those are the things we had to accept when turning down that handout we in fact are entitled to. However if you take any money from the state for homeschooling your kids by default become a property of the government in same lines as public schoolers and homeschool laws may no longer protect your family and children. This is the main reason HSLDA warns against joining charters as they say they simply cannot protect your rights once you sign that paper with the government. The money allocated to each child’s education and funded through our tax money should be available to every family whether they choose to send their kids to public schoolers or homeschool. Give the parents the power to decide what the best education for their children is and fund them (pay them back their taxes) so they can make it a reality.
Though I'm now watching this video more closely, it's vague on whether it's more ESAs. Ugh. We want out of the government system, Trump Team. I know you have people reading this.
Homeschoolers, by and large, do NOT want to report what we are doing, where we are spending our money, or what curriculum we are using. That's our school choice.
If it is offered in a way which can be tracked, I'll politely decline. If this is a tax credit for homeschooling, I'm in. If it's a tax credit like the adoption tax credit, however, which was not refundable, then you can shove it. That adoption credit would have come it handy for raising four extra kids if we'd actually had access to it. No, it simply showed as a credit for five years until rolling off our taxes. Super helpful. /s
This is a great alternative to ESAs and vouchers which make any private or homeschool a public school by default. I don't want a government handout--I opt out of the system.
Amen.
Yes. We don't use Sarah Sanders' LEARNS Act because of the requirement that I must test my homeschooled children if I use that money. It's great that it's there for those who don't mind testing their kids, but, as I told my husband, we will use the library and free resources and I'll make up the curriculum as I go if it ever comes to it; I WILL NOT measure my children by the state's yardstick.
Good for you! We dislike testing as well, but the kicker is simply having the government create a back door into the details of my homeschool. We have eyes and can see how government destroys what it funds. I'll keep my homeschool truly private, thank you.
Ditto. As enticing it is to get some of our tax money back through charters to support homeschooling the headache that comes with it and the hoops you must go through to get a measly amount of support is not worth it. My family definitely could use that money for our children’s home education as we live on one low income in California but we found a way to do it low cost and still be able to stay out of the system. We may not be able to go to museums or take enrichment classes but those are the things we had to accept when turning down that handout we in fact are entitled to. However if you take any money from the state for homeschooling your kids by default become a property of the government in same lines as public schoolers and homeschool laws may no longer protect your family and children. This is the main reason HSLDA warns against joining charters as they say they simply cannot protect your rights once you sign that paper with the government. The money allocated to each child’s education and funded through our tax money should be available to every family whether they choose to send their kids to public schoolers or homeschool. Give the parents the power to decide what the best education for their children is and fund them (pay them back their taxes) so they can make it a reality.
Though I'm now watching this video more closely, it's vague on whether it's more ESAs. Ugh. We want out of the government system, Trump Team. I know you have people reading this.
Homeschoolers, by and large, do NOT want to report what we are doing, where we are spending our money, or what curriculum we are using. That's our school choice.
If it is offered in a way which can be tracked, I'll politely decline. If this is a tax credit for homeschooling, I'm in. If it's a tax credit like the adoption tax credit, however, which was not refundable, then you can shove it. That adoption credit would have come it handy for raising four extra kids if we'd actually had access to it. No, it simply showed as a credit for five years until rolling off our taxes. Super helpful. /s