I used the word "attorney" not once, but twice, when I requested my IHIP forms from John P. He eventually back-pedaled, and our final points of discussion centered around proof of residence (which was never an issue for us, but for some reason, John P. felt he needed to harp on something, anything, to seem official. It's unfortunate when people do that). I cited other families who live in the Region who did not provide immunization or previous academic records before registering their homeschooled students, which he also references. His e-mail is below.
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Dear Ms. LaMai,
This office will be happy to send you the forms and Regulations for home schooling but as I indicated we cannot monitor home schooling for A or send you a “letter of acknowledgement” for your “letter of intent” until you “establish residence in the school district.”
As far as other families and procedures for home schooling, many of these families have been in the system prior to being discharged to home schooling so access to the student’s records are available to us. Immunization applies only if the student will participate in a public school setting for testing.
John P. Something
Regional School Counselor
New York City Board Of Education
Region 00000- Office of Youth Development & School - Community Services
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Sure looks like back-pedaling to me too, as well as an over-use of quotation marks. I still don't think the guy knows the regulations, however. Oops, I mean "regulations."
Thanks, Myrtle, and thanks, anonymous.
It was the Dept. of Ed. counselor himself who sent me the e-mail (from his e-mail address). He seems to deal with other h'schooling families pretty regularly (some say he's okay, some say he's an iron-fist who simply doesn't know the rules).
We are fresh meat, and well, it was the luck of the draw that determined that he would respond the way in which he did.
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