Placement and catching up for high school?
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:28 pm
Hmm.
From http://www.ontariohomeschool.org/FAQ.html:
As a result of OFTP's efforts to have this non-legal policy changed, the Ministry of Education drafted a new official policy, released in June 2002 as Policy/Program Memorandum No.131, which directs school boards to accept a family's letter of intent to homeschool as sufficient evidence that the parents are providing satisfactory instruction. School boards are directed to investigate only if there are "reasonable grounds" to suspect that the instruction is not satisfactory, and are given to understand that homeschooling methods and schedules etc. may be very different from the kind of instruction provided in schools.
Some school boards continue to attempt a more routine monitoring of homeschooling families. If this is the case for you, you may wish to refer them to PPM131.
Looks like you're ok, though you'll still want to catch up to where you should be just on general principle. You can get info on Ontario tests here:
http://www.ontariohomeschool.org/testing.html