-=> Quoting Cheryl Neitz to Marla Bilbrey <=-
 MB>CN>I am interested in what others have to face when it comes to
 MB>CN>homeschooling in their state. I have been told that PA has one of the
 MB>CN>best laws protecting our rights. What do others face?
I've been interested in finding out the particulars of homeschooling in
PA for a while.  From what I hear locally though, the state of PA isn't 
really that concerned with all of those rights.  In a district not too
far away they are not allowing home-schooled students to participate
in extra-curricular activities, (sports, clubs..ect.)  
This worries me since we all still pay taxes, right?  If I were to decide
tommorow to pull my son from public school (since he certainly performs 
academically better at home 2 hours a day than he does in school for 
six and half..), what will there be for him when he reaches adolescence
and wants/needs more peer interaction?
 
 CN> Being registered as a private school in PA would not work. I like that
 CN> all that is required for homeschooling is a high school diaploma. In
I hope I'm not miss-reading this message, because....
This is something I did not know....otherwise my husband and I never would
have enrolled our son in a public instituion.  
 
 MB>HOMESCHOOLERS a legal right to exist without any hassels.  I could be
 MB>wrong. Alaska might be ok, many kids have to be homeschooled, but use
 MB>the state's requirements of books and testing.
Alas,...the way it should be.  
Right now, I feel stuck between a rock and a hard place.  My six (almost)
seven year old is having difficulty with reading.  Honestly, my 
husband and I see it more as a problem of focus rather than understanding 
what he has learned. (When he reads to us at home, it's slow going, but 
he does it and does it well!) 
He has a serious problem with test-anxiety in 
any subject, but reading verbally and writing answers to a verbally
given test seem to be the hardest for him. 
If it's a math test....go figure...he does it in a breeze.
Are than any good materials out there for us to work with?
Has anyone out there found reasonable approaches to these types of 
problems, that could lend us some experience and good advice?
His first grade teacher has farmed him out to (not 1), but 2 outside 
the classroom reading groups, (one of which causes him to miss a portion of 
gym class and the begining of lunch.)
I have the feeling that these classes are making it harder for him to focus 
on learning, instead he focuses on what he misses. 
The teachers only solution to the low test and report card grades is to 
hold him back.....This is something I am strongly against, but of course
she is using his age, that he is almost a year younger than most of his
classmates.  
He did not have any noticable problems in kindergarten...Actually he did very
well.
This has kind of thrown me for a loop all year long.  
If anyone has any suggestions....I would kindly appreciate them!
Christa
  
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