Amendments made in June 2005 See the law that governs your ALP or Parent Partnership Program (PPP). Read the law, interpretation, and commentary on the differences
The purpose of this page is to help Washington State Homeschoolers (operating under the Home-based Instruction law)
keep informed of what's happening around the state and the nation pertaining to homeschooling.
Please read and consider signing, We Stand For Homeschooling which encourages discussion on the rise of both public and private "homeschooling programs". What we are seeing in Washington state is happening in other states and is marketed in similar fashions.
The new SAT is here!
information on the ACT Writing Test.
- check out the College Links page for information and discussion groups. Plus information on transcripts and Running Start. The Teens page has information on the science behind the teenage brain.
Some folks think we shcould stay and fix the public schools Food for Thought
John Holt on the Constitutional Basis for Home Education
"....most people are willing to accept the "social life" of the schools, on the grounds that it is some kind of preparation for "Real Life," by which they almost always mean something bad, that cannot be changed but must only be endured...."
The Journal of College Admissions has published how homeschoolers are accessing college without guidance councelors and how some colleges and universities put up barriers
"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences. "
