From: learn-usa.com
To: Debbie
Subject: Home school choices
Date: 12:51 PM 6/16/03
Dear Debbie,
Under education reform or systems
education, the intent is that “all” shall be included ... everyone
... homeschoolers, private schools ... everyone. In the K12 pamphlet I received, the
impression is that the true homeschooler receives the
material from K12 for free. The
pamphlet makes no distinction between the true homeschooler
and the virtual academy, intermixing the components to
make it appear that the homeschooler gets all the
material free but remains a true homeschooler. It's a come-on and a deceptive one at
that.
The K12 charter schools are intended to
pull the homeschoolers back into the system, but to
do it in such a way that they aren't aware they've been had until they've been
had.
Remember, under systems education,
“all really does mean all” ... no
exceptions. Now, some people don't
care that their “homeschool” is really an extension of the public
school. But some people do.
K12 is redefining the definition of
“homeschool” to mean a public school in the home. That is not what a homeschool,
traditionally, has been. By
blurring the lines, it is one more step toward redefining the meaning of
homeschool in an effort to pull all homeschoolers
back into the system.
K12 doesn't represent a choice; it
represents a surrepititious threat to true homeschoolers.
Also, the only way that K12 could have
gotten my address was through the State Superintendent of Public Instruction's
office where I had to register my children as homeschoolers
to meet state law. The OSPI giving out that information to K12 was a breach of the
state public disclosure law if K12 is considered a private organization. The only way the OSPI
could have given out my address to K12 legally is if K12 is considered a state
agency which, if it is, I am not aware of.
That I received a pamphlet, as I did, says that K12 is specifically
targeting homeschoolers in this state.
While apparently K12 was very upfront
about its funding source and purpose at the meeting you attended, others have
not been so lucky.
Lynn M Stuter
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