We heard from the Dept. of Ed.’s Home Study Dept. They have sent us ‘completes’ for our (applicable) children, which basically means we get one more year to homeschool legally. In Vermont, you only get one year at a time.

The attitude with the accompanying letter was that somehow if they had just gotten their mailings out about the new assessment guidelines before we got our mail to their office, we would have been held to the new law (regardless of the fact that our paperwork was under the previous law). My! I hope this isn’t the same office help going through the boxes of previous years’ work to make sure homeschoolers were “successful”. I especially hope they are not looking over, say, the logic and law student work!

Regardless, we are thankful to God for paving the way for us this year to homeschool under the dictates of our conscience before God, without having to wonder if a truancy officer is coming to our door.

The battle is won, but the war is still on. If we want to live in Vermont, our remedy provided for in the law needs to be exercised. Our next step will be to bring this up again to the Commissioner of Ed. That won’t be for a few months.

For now, we are sending him a letter addressing unprofessional and slanderous behavior by a staff member. A copy of it will be posted here when we send it out.

Have a nice day!