Some further thoughts.

And of course I can’t find it now, …

Ain’t that always the problem. ;>

I think I spend half my time looking for things I read ‘somewhere else,’ but have a bearing on what I’m reading now.

If you find it, Dana, blog it.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1124105.html

Another article, this time questioning the subsidized adoption process. But having worked for a foster care agency, I’d just like to note that profit is not normally an issue and probably isn’t here. It is easy to look at the money and think maybe they wouldn’t have taken the children if it weren’t for that, but more often than not, that little bit of money is what makes it possible for loving families to take on an extra child.

http://www.charlotte.com/local/story/692800.html

The stipend possible here in NE is up to twice the amount mentioned in the article for the families I worked with, and money was never the object for the parents. These are tough kids with real problems and a lot is required of foster parents for very little in return…except a constant suspicion that is worse than what homeschoolers face. That isn’t helped by the many abuses which happen in the system, but most parents aren’t like that.

And of course I can’t find it now, but I am almost certain I read a snippet in an article that mentioned that the Department of Non-Public’s Instruction’s response to the homeschool recommendations was essentially that it was the legislature’s job to determine whether greater monitoring was needed. If so, they’d need to pass a law and then the Dept. would adapt accordingly.