??? for homeschooling parents

[Margies3]

Originally Posted by HappyTown

As tax payer who pays into your school district in your area you are entitled to having your child tested by the school. I had my son tested by the school in our district to see where he placed, so yes it can and does happen. You got work with the school.

Originally Posted by MissBrattified

Okay, first of all if the school isn't working in the best interest of the child, you DON'T have to work with the school.

Anyway, that's fine, if Margie is "entitled" as a taxpayer to have him tested if she WANTS to, but you made it sound like as a taxpayer she's REQUIRED to have him tested. LOL!!!!!

Unfortunately, it seems that in our school district, you are not, as a parent, ENTITLED to have your child tested. That is my big argument with the school counselor right now. I have begged, pleaded, theatened, bent over backwards, stood on my head and done everything else possible just trying to convince them that I want our FIRST step in this process to be testing Keith. But they absolutely refuse!

It doesn't make sense to me to try to all the other tricks to help him get on track (leaving a set of books at home, having me sign his agenda book every day saying that I saw his finished homework, etc., etc.) if there is a valid reason why he has not been able to get the grades. If we test him and find out that he is just goofing off and that there is nothing keeping him from being able to learn, then fine. I'll come down on him like a ton of bricks! but I don't think it's fair to a child to beat them into the ground over grades and then find out years into this that they've been dyslexic or learning disabled in another way all this time. That is the reason I want him to tested. To rule everything else out!

Unfortunately, our school system seems to be useless when it comes to this! They flat out REFUSE to do it. I even asked, "What about the letter that his pediatrician sent to you telling you that she wanted to have it done?" They said that her field is not education it is medicine. So they don't have to do the testing even tho she has requested it!

Unbelievable!!! Do I sound as frustrated as I feel???????