Posts Tagged ‘ Connecticut homeschooling ’

Connecticut-On being a “self-learner”

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Woodbury teen (un) schooled in ways of the world REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN BY MATT JOHNSON “I really got a sense of being a self-learner,” he said. “When you’re unschooled, you never stop learning just because you leave the classroom. I know how to seek the information that I want, and that’s huge in college.” But while...
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Connecticut schools still reporting parents to DCF

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Backdoor Dealings: A proposed bill that would get DCF off the back of homeschooling parents is caught in a political war between competing lawmakers, 2 April 2008, Hartford Advocate, Hartford, Connecticut There’s a bait-and-switch scam going on in the General Assembly where the homeschooling bill 162 is concerned. Originally proposed by Rep. Arthur O’Neill,...
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Connecticut: bill to simplify school withdrawal process

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The right to home school, 16 March 2008, Danbury News Times, Danbury, Connecticut Deborah Stevenson, an education attorney who represents Hughes, said her family is one of more than 40 in the past year who found DCF investigators at their doorsteps statewide after removing children from their local district to be home schooled. School...
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Connecticut school withdrawal bill — SB 162

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Smoothing A Way Out Of School, 18 February 2008, Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut Home-schooling advocates will be watching with interest when legislators hold a public hearing Tuesday on a bill that would change the way parents withdraw their children from public school. The proposed law would require parents to send a certified letter informing...
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A victory for a military homeschooling family in CT

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An update on the situation in Connecticut concerning the homeschooling mom whose husband was militarily deployed when the problems began: Hoo Ya! A Victory For A Military Homeschool Family in CT!, 6 July 2007, Consent of the Governed The DCF Commissioner, Susan Hamilton, send a certified letter to Isabelle Hall-Gustafsen, whose husband had been...
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Connecticut: Homeschoolers meet with Govenor’s office and DCF

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Governor’s office calls a meeting regarding DCF abuses of homeschooling families in Connecticut, 12 June 2007, Consent of the Governed Also at the press conference were three families who told their stories to the press about having been improperly reported to DCF. The families told their stories in heart rendering simplicity, detailing the abuses...
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Connecticut schools calling homeschoolers neglectful

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In Connecticut, schools have reported the parents of some homeschooled children to the Department of Children and Families for withdrawing their children from school. Judy, at Consent of the Governed, gives details: 31 May 2007: Homeschoolers under attack by Department of Children and Families (DCF) in Connecticut Parents who have had it with the...
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Connecticut pandemic legislation

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Judy Aron at Consent of the Governed looks at proposed legislation for public school students in the event of a public crisis. Her readers comment. CT Pandemic Legislation – Is It Anti-Homeschool? Neither rain or snow or pandemic, no matter what emergency arises you must still “do school” as the administrators demand it to...
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Ned Vare and ‘Uncle Duke?’ Wow.

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Ned Vare, a homeschool activist in Connecticut, used to post eye-opening messages on NHEN’s former discussion list, NHEN-Legislative. That list … faded …, but my memories of Ned’s posts (still ‘living’ here — just search for “Vare”) haven’t. Freak Power: Ned Vare reflects on a special time in American politics and culture, 8 May...
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