-=> Quoting Regina Finan to Bruce Roeser <=-
 RF> This is my first year of homeschooling and although I have made my
 RF> own curriculum I still at times get caught up into what conventional
 RF> teaching and curriculums are.  I'm learning too.  I know now that as
 RF> long as it is a learning experience it is school.  Thanks.
  My wife, Cheryl, has been dealing with that same struggle.  She's
  beginning to loosen up on it now, but was very much trying to craft
  her schooling around a traditional approach.  We're to the point now
  where we realize that just about *any* learning experience can be
  written down as school time.  When I take my daughters out for tennis
  that counts as Phys Ed., etc.  It's all very legal, particularly when
  you keep some kind of portfolio of the work to demonstrate the
  learning.  Here in Florida, all that's really required is periodic
  testing and evaluation to "ensure that the student is performing at a
  level 'commensurate with their abilities'".  Now ain't that statement
  a bunch of double-talk?
  Fortunately, Cheryl's father is a child-psychologist and is qualified
  (and licensed)  to evaluate our daughter's progress; so we can trust
  that it will be a good evaluation.  (Dad is *very* serious about being
  accurate, even though with family).
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