Homeschooling

Archive for October, 2008

Question: Homeschooling a child with learning disabilites?

is it legal to home school a child with a learning disability? if so what are the requirements for me as as his teacher. i live in tennessee. my son is classified as mildly retarded and i would rather have him at home with all the abuse of special needs students in schools. i only have a high School diploma , which is all that is required to teach kids without special needs. but i dont know the requirements for special education kids.
thank you for the info. but i really want to keep him home with me if i can
sorry about that , im new to the Homeschooling thing

Answer: I'd start here:

http://Homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/methods/DLPsDisabilities.htm

Ann also has the laws for every state and lists of support groups, some of which are for special needs children.

another general homeschool site that has the laws and another list of support groups is

homeedmag.com

Both have great articles about Homeschooling and should answer pretty much all your questions.

I think Homeschooling will turn out to be the best thing you can do for you son because it gives him the ability to learn what he needs to know at his own pace without all the stress of institutionalized school. good luck to both of you.

Homeschooling Disabled Kids.wmv

Question: Urgent reply needed before post office closes today March 14, 2008?

I enrolled my daughter into Abeka Homeschool (Fully accredited, graduation diploma and transcripts for college will be supplied), yesturday and need to notify the school immediately of our intent to withdraw from public school. I joined HSLDA yesturday but can not log in to get a sample letter, there is a waiting period to recieve your membership number. I need a withdrawal letter for Massachusetts to send certified return reciept today and need ideas on how to write it! Hoping for some answers before I run off to the post office before 4pm... :9) Thankyou!

Answer: Unfortunately I could not find a link to any specific 'intent to withdraw' forms, but I found a list of Mass. homeschoolers with telephone numbers. You might be able call one and get an idea of where to look or what to write yourself.

http://www.mhsupportgroups.blogspot.com/

Good luck to you!

President Clinton Speaks on the THEA Foundation