AAAAA you are quite right. I had a rotten time of it with my eldest daughters grade 5 special ed teacher. She was a nasty piece of work to say the least, my daughter would come home crying...it was horrid. So I approached the school and asked them if I could homeschool her, they said I needed a dr's letter saying she needs to be homeschooled and that I could only do it for a couple of months. What BS that was. Our Education Act basically says that a parent can decide to homeschool their child(ren) at anytime during the year. All they have to do is submit a letter of intent to homeschool to the principal of the school and to the board of education, you can do this anytime and withdraw your child(ren) immediately. However, the school made it very difficult, and as my daughter was doing so well at home they accused me of doing her work for her and yanked the plug. Now I know that I have a legal right to HS my girls. and the laws in Ontario are very good regarding HS families. The nice thing is that you don't have to follow the Ontario Curriculum, you can devise your own to suit your childrens abilities, needs, interests, the only owness is that should in the event you be investigated by the board of ed, you need to be able to show that the children have "satifactory instruction" . It is nice here we have an amendment to the Education Act, called the PPM131, and it is all to do with Homeschooling. It protects all HS'ers. In that it gives guidelines for investigators, and to let them remember that homeschooling does not have to resemble a classroom in a school schedule. It has many variances.

Anyway I digress.

Thank you for your warm thoughts about my decision to homeschool. It is nice to hear.

Blessings
Mischka