Home-School Diploma Essay
Homeschoolers are required to follow their individual state's requirements for education, and in some states you still need to take the G.E.D. In order to successfully graduate from high school. While many officials and higher education institutions in Wisconsin accept the home school diploma, one teacher's aide was released from her position for not having her G.E.D. After the Department of Public Institution (DPI), contacted the private school regarding the aide's graduation status, they were informed that they would lose Private School Choice program funding they continued her employment. Up until this incident, the small provision in the Biennial State Budget was barely recognized. Once it became clear that the teacher's aide could not
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Families did not need an act of the legislature to prove that. This measure was necessary only because one agency, the Department of Public Instruction, refused to accept the obvious. In fact, they asked the governor to veto the diploma measure. “ Evers wrote in his letter to Governor Scott Walker that easing requirements for a teacher's aide would not be in the best interest of the children. The Wisconsin Parents Association(WPA) created a petition opposing the budget bill change, maintaining that it would undermine the home school diploma. In a letter sent out to home school students, the WPA cites that whenever a home school diploma is questioned, they are available to demonstrate the validity of a home school education. “Our statewide home-school organization worked to create the good homeschooling law we have in Wisconsin and have worked for 31 years to maintain it despite continual challenges,” said Larry Kaseman, Executive Director of the WPA, in an emailed …show more content…
“ It's very gratifying to see a process we initiated in partnership with Wisconsin Christian Home Educators Association come to fruition in a way that will help thousands of Wisconsin families."
SOURCES:
Brennan,P., 7/16/15, Wisconsin Ends Discrimination, winsconsin.watchdog.org
Interview with Scott Woodruff, Senior Counsel, Home School Legal Defense Association
E-mail interview with Larry Kaseman, Executive Director of the
Families did not need an act of the legislature to prove that. This measure was necessary only because one agency, the Department of Public Instruction, refused to accept the obvious. In fact, they asked the governor to veto the diploma measure. “ Evers wrote in his letter to Governor Scott Walker that easing requirements for a teacher's aide would not be in the best interest of the children. The Wisconsin Parents Association(WPA) created a petition opposing the budget bill change, maintaining that it would undermine the home school diploma. In a letter sent out to home school students, the WPA cites that whenever a home school diploma is questioned, they are available to demonstrate the validity of a home school education. “Our statewide home-school organization worked to create the good homeschooling law we have in Wisconsin and have worked for 31 years to maintain it despite continual challenges,” said Larry Kaseman, Executive Director of the WPA, in an emailed …show more content…
“ It's very gratifying to see a process we initiated in partnership with Wisconsin Christian Home Educators Association come to fruition in a way that will help thousands of Wisconsin families."
SOURCES:
Brennan,P., 7/16/15, Wisconsin Ends Discrimination, winsconsin.watchdog.org
Interview with Scott Woodruff, Senior Counsel, Home School Legal Defense Association
E-mail interview with Larry Kaseman, Executive Director of the