Kayote in Wonderland

I've had a fitful night of sleep for the past two nights... I think it's because I'm in major pain... I've had horrid dreams.. things like my kids dying... I hate nights like these...

It seems that Parker and I just can't sleep in the same room comfortably... he has zero body fat and gets cold easy. He doesn't like fans so in the summer it's too fucking hot to sleep. Well, it's too fucking hot to sleep in the winter too because the heater is on and the door is closed and we have a heavy blanket and an electric blanket that I can't seem to adjust to be comfortable for me because no matter what I set my side to, I'm still getting whatever he has his side on. I hate that... but he would get sick if he gets too cold so I don't know how to fix this... *sigh*

Now I've had little sleep and I've got to take the kids to the doctor and I really just want to crawl back in bed because even sitting up in my chair right now is fucking killing me... I want to cry it hurts so bad... I wish this constant fucking pain would go away!

As stparker attempted to post earlier the three of our four children that we are going to homeschool are now home... well almost LOL. Our youngest daughter is missing a book that we have to find before we can sign her out officially. Funny thing happend while we were waiting for the papers, the secretary is homeschooling her child too. ROFLMAO now that is kinda sad that someone who works for the public school system doesn't have her child in public school. So I was telling her about online classes and she was taking notes hehehee. Yes, the high tech junkie is spreading the adiction. *grin*

Now I can have the big sigh of relief and not have that stupid TAKS test hovering over their heads anymore. Now they may actually LEARN something.

Jaz, I had to make a letter of assurance for the school to go in their record so I made it a PDF and if you want to put in on pp for others to use, it's here: http://www.magickdream.com/wolfrose/hsverification.pdf

It's cold and it raining and I feel like total crap!

I'm taking a darvacet and going back to bed!

Ok, Parker is reluctant to homeschool our son since this is a house hold of 4 females and two males. He says that Stormchaser needs socialization with other boys his age so he wants to leave him in public school. *SIGH*

I think we have found a solution to my wanting to unschool and his wanting a strict guideline curriculum. (can we say anal?) The compromise being that we kinda do both, more of a loose curriculum with lots of hands on learning. *grin*

soooooooo I really need a solution to the socialization thing because Stormchaser was the reason I started thinking about homeschooling in the first place a few years ago. (an idea I was put off by being told that I had to submit a curriculum to the school board for approval before I would be allowed to do it)

so now what? <tongue in cheek> enroll him in kung fu classes......... iiiiiiinnnnn Austin </tongue in cheek>

There seem to be (at least) three distinct positions concerning whether and how it is lawful to educate one's own children at home here in Texas. Two of these endorse and perpetuate the idea of a compelling state interest in education, while the third does not.

The first position, in as accurate a nutshell as I can manage, is this:

"We accept the idea and practice of compelling state interest. We, in fact, went to court seeking a state definition of 'home schooling.' We lobby for home-educated children to participate fully in public-school 'benefits' like sports while also fully realizing that the Texas Education Code applies to all educational institutions funded in whole or in part by state tax funds. We avoid mentioning the applicability of that code (though we quote other sections of it) when people come to us wanting to know if or how the law may affect home education in Texas. We are serving and protecting the home schooling community of Texas."

The second contains the following ideas:

"We may or may not _like_ the idea of compelling state interest but we do fear the power of the State so we concede such an interest. We covet the state's approval, and are willing to allow the state to define what we do in our own homes in exchange for being 'allowed' to educate our own children. Yet, at the same time, we seek to avoid other state educational regulation that is not to our liking. We pin all our hopes on the idea that a court decision allowing us to call our homes private schools when they conform to certain requirements will protect us from having any requirements placed on our homes."

The temptation to add "We are confused." to this second position is overpowering.
In fairness, though, the same should be added to the first position as well.

Since both of these positions rely upon state approval and definition they both want some sort of 'homeschooling law' to point to as a "basis for our right to homeschool."

The third position says:

"We thoroughly reject the erroneous idea of a compelling state interest in our children's education. We also find no lawful basis for such a thing. We as parents created and produced these children and as we are willing to accept our parental responsibilities we claim those responsibilities for ourselves. We realize this position may not 'go over well' with bureaucrats and busybodies; however, we will settle for _no less than_ the liberty lawfully retained by the people when allowing the Texas Legislature educational authority over only an 'efficient system of public free schools'."

It has been suggested that those holding to the first two positions are more 'realistic' for thinking that obtaining permission and definition from the state will secure their ability to home educate in peace, while those holding out for liberty are said to be 'in denial' of the way things really work. But... who is actually in denial here?

The truth of the matter is that NO MATTER WHICH POSITION YOU HOLD... THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES that you will be left to live and learn in peace.

About the only guarantee is that in voluntarily conceding power over your children's education to the state ---> the state _will_ exercise that power and your compliance with state demands will be expected and enforced.

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Bev Jones, April 2001 -- Permission is hereby granted to copy and/or forward this message,*in its entirety* and including this statement, to every single home-educating parent you can find on the face of this planet.


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*grin*

It's Parker's new soap box...

I am so fucking bored it's not even funny!

I'm going through email withdrawal too... this is fucked up!

I need a project....

Maybe I should dye my hair purple...

remove me from your friends list... I'm just really appalled at what's come to light today.... and with what has come to light today, I'm going to resub to WitchWars for a bit because I feel that I own Talesin an apology since now I feel without a doubt that you are the one who faked the headers on that email and everything you've done since then has been cover your ass blame shifting. I don't feel that I can any longer believe a word that comes out of your mouth...

I for one know that it could not have possibly been Enyo or her ID that was responsible for your removal from DrakNet, I believe you are the one who is responsible for that yourself. Enyo would just not do that, plus she was not near internet access at the time the log in happend when the ID in question was busy deleting files.

*SIGH*

you disgust me and that's that... I'm washing my hands of you.