Aw, thanks! I think we want to stay near mountains, but we'll consider it. :) Our biggest criteria is actually that we're able to have a farm, and that the state has good homeschooling laws. It'll be hard to top NC, to be honest. We'd like a chance though. :) We may just move to a different NC-area. We'll see.
There are farms everywhere here, though. Also, there's a lot of homeschooling here. The public schools suck. I looked into it a little; it looks like the only serious requirements to homeschool your kid are that you teach in English and keep a record of their attendance. http://www.inhomeeducators.org/laws/ There are no subject requirements, and nobody has the power to even define what constitutes "equivalent to public education". You're pretty free to do whatever you want.
Apparently I cannot type the word "homeschool". I always type "homoschool". I do the same thing to "homowork". XD
Too cool! They do have awesome laws. They're much like NC, only NC also requires annual testing. Which is kind of silly, because you don't have to turn the tests in, or even choose a consistent "grade level" to test (like kindergarten the first year, first grade the second...technically you can just give them any standardized test and then stick it in a file for a year), and there's no minimum grade they have to make. So...kind of a silly law.
This reminded me that I needed to email a friend of mine that I haven't seen in a while! She and her husband were both homeschooled, and are getting ready to have a kid now (she's due in November!!) who will be homeschooled too. I got to help them out when they were parenting a kitten a few years ago, so I'm hoping they'll let me help with the homeschooling-of-human-child too. I don't get enough kids in my life so I LOVE when friends let me help with their kids. (Which is another reason you should move here. :D)
That's very cool. I'm all about utilizing the village if it offers. :) You should teach me any kitten-parenting tips. I'm not a cat person, so I mostly leave it to Josh. I do good with the kids, but I just don't seem to gel with cats. :P
If we don't move there, I'll at least visit. One of the First Important Things on my goal list is to go back home and visit Grandma. We usually go through Indiana. WOOT!
Oh gawd...I am SOOO not a cat person. I'm totally a dog person. Although, fallenrose, who is the most catpersonny cat person on the face of the earth, keeps calling me in to do Reiki on her cats. I mean, I can communicate with cats, I understand what they want and stuff, but we just do NOT get along well. Plus, the whole "cat litter makes me diiiiiieeeeee" thing.
Thanks! I don't know that I'll necessarily do that. Josh seems to know a lot about them. I've already got so many friends that I'm trying to pare down more than add right now. It's hard for me to keep up. I appreciate it nonetheless.
I'll just introduce you two when you come visit, then. It is hard to keep up with so many people online, I know! If you start finding yourself wanting to move to Indiana, it would make way more sense for you two to connect. :)
Personally, I vote that you should move to Indiana. :D
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There are farms everywhere here, though. Also, there's a lot of homeschooling here. The public schools suck. I looked into it a little; it looks like the only serious requirements to homeschool your kid are that you teach in English and keep a record of their attendance. http://www.inhomeeducators.org/laws/ There are no subject requirements, and nobody has the power to even define what constitutes "equivalent to public education". You're pretty free to do whatever you want.
Apparently I cannot type the word "homeschool". I always type "homoschool". I do the same thing to "homowork". XD
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Homoschool...I love it. LOL
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If we don't move there, I'll at least visit. One of the First Important Things on my goal list is to go back home and visit Grandma. We usually go through Indiana. WOOT!
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So yeah...ask fallenrose. ;-)
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