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New Electronic Filing in Wisconsin Email
Here's a Heads-Up When Filling Out the Form...Give them only what the law requires:
• File form PI-1205 after the third Friday in September (September 17 this year) and by October 15 (unless your child is currently formally enrolled in a public school or a private school that is not a homeschool. If they are enrolled, you need to file the form before you begin homeschooling.)
• When filing your PI-1206 form, don’t use your email address as your ID. (If the DPI Web site still says, “We strongly encourage you to use your email address as your ID,” ignore this suggestion.) Instead, where the DPI Web site says, “Required: Email / ID,” use your name or a combination of letters and/or numbers that you choose. Homeschoolers who use their email address may receive emails from their local school districts and others. To solve this problem, WPA has asked that the DPI remove the suggestion that parents use their email address as their ID. If the DPI does not remove it, WPA has asked that the DPI not provide email addresses to local school districts.
• Don’t give the DPI your phone number(s). There is no good reason for the DPI to request them, and they haven’t done so in the past. Because an enormous amount of information is available to anyone who has your phone number, giving it to the DPI undermines your family privacy. Also, some local school districts may use these phone numbers to contact homeschoolers.
• Don’t give the DPI or your local school district any other information not required by law. Know your rights and don’t respond to surveys or questionnaires your school district may send you.
• Don’t trust information from the DPI, including what is posted on the Web site that has the new electronic version of the form. Much of this information is misleading and/or inaccurate. See the WPA Web site and “For Information, Trust WPA and Beware of the DPI” on page 10 of Newsletter #105.
• Our freedoms and our privacy are much more secure when we know how to protect our freedoms in spite of the policies and procedures of the DPI and local school districts. We will be in a much weaker position if we try to rely on outside experts instead of taking responsibility ourselves. Many states (such as NY, NH, and PA) that relied on outside experts have ended up with restrictive homeschooling laws as a result.
• Forward this email and share this information with other homeschoolers, including members of your support group.
Thank you,
The WPA BoardWisconsin Parents Association
www.homeschooling-wpa.org
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Fort Worth Area Homeschool Information
Leigh Bortins Presentation Sat July 17
Leigh Bortins, the founder of Classical Conversationspresenting with Dr. Miles Jones, founder ofJones Geniuses Accelerated Educationthis coming Saturday July 17, 2010 from3-5:30 pm at the Riley Convention Center at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary2001 W. Seminary Drive, Fort Worth, Tx.
This is a priceless opportunity to meet with Leigh Bortins and hearabout the dynamic educational program that has engaged tens ofthousands of home schoolers across the nation. Leigh Bortins willpresent on The Dialectics of Mathematics education. Learn whyClassical Conversations has been so successful in galvanizing a new generation of home schoolers. She will discuss the three stages of classical (Greek) method and how each can be effectively implementedin home education.
Dr. Jones will present on the Call from Sinai, the archaeologicalevidence found at the Mount Sinai site in Midian which includesinscriptions from the base of the mountain. An international team hasbeen called to examine this evidence and Dr. Jones is a part of thatteam. Dr. Jones analyzed and translated the inscriptions from Sinaipublished in his new book The Writing of God. They reveal thescriptural call that is the basis of the Christian model of classicaleducation, subtitled "How the Greeks stood on the shoulders of the Hebrews".
SWBTS university is a leader in quality classical education and has subsidized this event by discounting the beautiful Riley Conference Center for the use of this home school conference. The fee for the event is $5for adults and $3 for children under 18 years of age.Please RSVP to chris@jonesgeniuses.com or by phone 817 718 8822.
Moms Who Work From Home
With the rising costs of meeting the financial needs of their families, the number of moms who work from home is steadily increasing. What kind of stay at home Mom jobs are there?
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