{"id":7468,"date":"2023-11-28T22:18:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T03:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/?p=7468"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:18:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T03:18:04","slug":"failing-public-schools-forcing-parents-everywhere-to-seek-out-better-alternatives-for-educating-their-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/2023\/11\/28\/failing-public-schools-forcing-parents-everywhere-to-seek-out-better-alternatives-for-educating-their-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Failing Public Schools forcing Parents everywhere to seek out better alternatives for educating their children!!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Editor\u2019s Note: For years and years now, test scores for Charter Schools, Private Schools, Church Schools and Home Schools have exceeded by far the education provided to students attending public schools. The only problem was that state funding (taxpayer $$$) was only provided to the Public schools and most parents couldn\u2019t afford to pay those taxes and then pay extra $$$ for those better alternative schools. For years, many efforts in Cleveland County and elsewhere to start those alternative schools have failed for that very reason. And, last but not least are the County Commissioners, who raise a school tax on the people, then turn the money over to the school board without question and never demanding any accountability.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\tFolks, times have changed. Largely because of the arrogance and political party indoctrination. Combined with stupidity, waste, incestuous hiring practices and too many hands in the cookie jar. Topped with flat out corruption, cover-up, Lies, *big and small.\u201d Very poor leadership from top management and the ever-present cover-up and severe retaliation against anybody that spoke out. And then the LGBTQXYZ and CRT based indoctrinations, bullying and COVID-19 Shutdowns. Then the failure of remote learning and the stupidity of depending on computers to do the teaching exposed the insanity of it all for everybody to see. Including the North Carolina General Assembly!<\/p>\n

\tJust weeks ago, North Carolina General Assembly, with Speaker of the House Tim Moore and other Cleveland County legislators also playing a big part, passed landmark legislation called The Universal School Choice Act. Accounts of this new law states:
\nThe rapid growth of universal school choice programs continued Friday as the North Carolina legislature passed a state budget with an education savings account available to any family that wants to opt for private education (for their children). Funding for the program would increase each year, reaching $520 million by 2032.
\nWith amounts ranging from $3,200 to $7,500 per child, depending on family income, the program is expected to be the second largest in the nation, after Florida\u2019s. The budget that included the plan passed 26 to 17 in the Senate and 70 to 40 in the House, with five Democrats crossing the aisle. (Also note that This funding starts with the 2023-2024 School Year!)<\/p>\n

\tHowever, many parents in Cleveland County have already began, for one reason or another, have already started the process of withdrawing their children from Cleveland County Schools and starting them into Home Schooling programs. Many to most of these children were victims of \u201cbullying\u201d at CCS Schools and the parents and guardians were tired of the continuous lies and do-nothing cover-ups by the CCS Administration and CCS School Board under the leadership of Superintendent Stephen Fisher and School Board Chairman Robert Queen. It is expected that by the 2024-2025 School Year this trickle of withdrawals from CCS will turn into a FLOOD of withdrawals. Not only to attend schools at home, but to go into Charter Schools, Private Schools, Church Schools and more Home Schools,<\/p>\n

\tFor it\u2019s part, the State of North Carolina Department Of Administration (NCDOA at website www.doa.nc.com has already been designed and implemented as an easy guide, like the forms and instructions to how to withdraw your child (or children) from failing public schools like CCS and enroll them into the much better learning environments than found at Cleveland County Schools.<\/p>\n

\tThis is how you start the process:<\/p>\n

1.Type www.doa.nc.gov into your browser and hit ENTER:
\n2.Scroll down about halfway to FOR THE PUBLIC
\n3.Scroll halfway down in For the Public to NC Homeschools
\n4.Search around for various pertinent information<\/p>\n

Note that only Homeschool information is available\/provided as the 2024-2025 School year information has not yet been provided. That is expected sometime before the start of school in in mid-2024.<\/p>\n

There is MORE:<\/p>\n

For your convenience, Robert A has cut and pasted the following information from the NC DOA. Note that the Requirements can be easily met by anybody that is reading this article. Remember these three things:
\n1.YOU can take your kids away from the bullying and hostile atmosphere and environment at CCS Schools.
\n2.YOU can choose whether or not to send your kids back to CCS when they finally get the message that THEY get the message that THEY must improve significantly.
\n3.YOU can vote for Robert A as a Cleveland County Commissioner in the 2024 Republican Primary and General Elections. Knowing full well that Robert A, as a CC Commissioner, will set CCS upon the right track and see to it that they stay there.<\/p>\n

Home School Requirements & Recommendations from the NCDOA:
\nNorth Carolina law defines a home school as a nonpublic school consisting of the children of not more than two families or households, where the parents or legal guardians or members of either household determine the scope and sequence of the academic instruction, provide academic instruction, and determine additional sources of academic instruction.\u00a0General Statute 115C-563(a)\u00a0as amended changes the definition of a home school to allow parents to hire tutors, let their children participate in group settings where they receive instruction (co-ops, 4-H classroom instruction, etc.) and be instructed by an expert that is not a part of the household in the established homeschool (apprenticeships, a homeschool doctor teaching biology, etc.) This will allow homeschool parents more freedom to choose what is best for the education of their children.
\nThe North Carolina Division of Non-Public Education (DNPE) is authorized by state law to receive home school notices of intent to begin initial operation and to terminate operation, and to annually inspect the school’s student attendance and nationally standardized achievement test result records. Chief Administrators of home schools should anticipate receiving a request(s) to meet with a DNPE representative at a public location in close proximity to the home school while the home school is in operation<\/p>\n

Requirements
\nParents\/guardians residing in North Carolina and desiring, in lieu of conventional school attendance, to home school their school-age children must:<\/p>\n

\uf0b7Hold at least a high school diploma or its equivalent.
\n\uf0b7Send to DNPE a\u00a0Notice of Intent to Operate a Home School. The notice must include the name and address of the school along with the\u00a0chief administrator. \u200b
\noInstructions for Selecting a Home School Name: \u00a0
\n\uf0a7\u200bWhen selecting your school name, choose an academic name appropriate for inclusion on the student’s future high school diploma which would be provided by your school.\u00a0
\n\uf0a7Keep in mind that DNPE will NOT be able to accommodate requests later for a change of school name in the division’s files.\u00a0
\n\uf0a7School name length should not exceed 30 characters (including spaces and punctuation).
\n\uf0a7To avoid duplication and confusion, do not use the following words in the name: Charter, college, elementary, grade, grammar, high, incorporated (or Inc.), junior, kindergarten, lower, middle, primary, public, residence, schooling, secondary, seminary, senior, the, university, or upper.
\n\uf0a7Please avoid using names of public or private schools in your area, or using the name of the instructional program\/online service you are using. \u00a0
\n\uf0a7Any school submitting its Notice of Intent without providing a school name will automatically be assigned a school name beginning with the last name of the chief administrator followed by the word “School.”
\n\uf0b7Elect to operate under either\u00a0Part 1\u00a0or\u00a0Part 2 of Article 39\u00a0of the North Carolina General Statutes as a religious or as a non-religious school.
\n\uf0b7Operate (conduct instruction in) the home school on a regular schedule for at least nine calendar months of the year, excluding holidays and vacations.
\n\uf0b7Maintain at the school disease immunization and annual\u00a0attendance\u00a0records for each student.
\n\uf0b7Have a\u00a0nationally standardized achievement test\u00a0administered during each academic year to each student. The test must involve the subject areas of English grammar, reading, spelling and mathematics. Records of the test results must be retained at the home school for at least one year and made available to DNPE when requested. \u00a0The first standardized test must be administered within the academic year of the home school start date, and then annually thereafter.
\n\uf0b7Notify DNPE when the school is no longer in operation.<\/p>\n

Also, please read below the document School Choice in North Carolina,<\/p>\n

Note that \u201cChurch Schools\u201d are included in the \u201cPRIVATE SCHOOLS\u201d CATEGORY!! <\/p>\n