I got the survey and was not surprised to see that it was worded in such a way as to assume that we were going to be signing our kids up for this and making a commitment. It was really frustrating to me.
I filled it out using the word “IF” a lot. In the spaces where they asked what day would be best for us and what time of day, I put, “None. Our home-school day is already scheduled and full.”
I would have been happier to fill out their survey had it been an anonymous survey with general questions as to what we would like if we were involved. It really bugged me that they were asking for the names and ages of our kids…I wish now I had not even filled in those blanks, but they could have still gotten that information off our intent to home-school form. At the bottom, the last question was “Will you be willing to chaperone field trips?” Sigh. It seems they are really desperate to bring us into their folds.
I wonder why? I can think of a couple of reasons perhaps….
· They get money for every head they can count
· Home-schoolers typically do better on the tests than public schooled kids and the test scores are falling on the WASL, making teachers and school districts squirm. If they can draw home-schoolers in and require them to take the WASL it might raise WASL scores for the district and that would benefit them.
Whatever the reason they want us so badly, they aren’t getting our kids.
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Someone else was expressing concern about that survey. I haven't seen it yet. Hmmm...maybe I should look into it.
So, Is this a state-wide survey? I thought it was just our local school district doing this.
I know the WASL scores state-wide have been falling. I suppose if they can get homeschool kids state-wide to join this program with the public schools then they could require the WASL for all of them and boost their state-wide scores a little bit?
It's interesting to ponder on why they are making such an effort to entice homeschoolers into their folds. I know money is part of it too. They get more money per head they can count. Homeschoolers must be presenting a bit of a threat to the public school system for them to try so hard to entice us in.
I am getting stuff all the time in the mail about internet based school done through the State of WA. If they can get you in on that, then I suppose they can count your kids and get tax dollars for them.
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