Please complete the questionnaire on the back of the enclosed post card and return it at your earliest convienience. Maybe, it would depend on the services and circumstances. And, reiterated again this year to another parent. Might evidence gathered by this pilot program be used against the homeschooling community. Students are leaving the CPS district in droves, moving to private, parochial, community and homeschools.
Many teachers have their jobs in jeopardy.
There are, no doubt, many more questions and concerns which may be raised as a result of this survey. This hardly sounds supportive. Remembering, of course, that the requirement of this particular assessment standard would also require that a district-mandated curriculum and learner outcomes be observed as well. One of the basic underlying tenets of homeschooling is independence and self-reliance. Homeschoolers are extraordinarily adept at mining the resources of their communities, at locating what they need and want for their children and their families.