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Does anyone know about homeschooling in NYC. I live in NYC and principal is not allowing my children back next year. He is abusing his power but …meanwhile since no school will accept children at this point. If i want to avoid them going to public school, I would have to register to be homeschoolilng.
Anyone can also give me support/advice if you went through this with your children’s school.
THANKS.
It is not easy to Homeschool in New York, You need to be a licensed teacher, there are websites that homeschoolers frequent
How old are the children? Are they old enough for online school?
Chabad has online schooling for towns too small for a school and ttheir kids too young to go out of town.
In many states anyone can homeschool, Just not in NY
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Please don’t take this the wrong way. Our kids are the most important thing we have. We were faced with a similar issue. If home schooling is not done 100% ACS (child services) gets involved and that is the last thing you want.
I would move to Brooklyn or another area to save my kids. Home School is not always the answer, a kid needs a social life as much as an education. If I can help in any way ask the Mod for my info.
All the best and Good Luck.
You can find summaries of the legal requirements online(which do not include having a teaching license – if that were the law then all the private schools in New York would be in trouble for using unlicensed teachers since under “equal protection” they can’t demand something of home schoolers that they don’t demand of the elite private schools, not to mention the hasidic yeshivos). I suggest the website of the Home School Legal Defense Association. While New York has a reputation for disliking home schoolers, if one doesn’t try to rub it in their face one probably won’t have problems. Other options include establishing a “school” which is de facto what many home schooling “groups” evolve into. — There are many organizations that can help with the legal aspects, though only a few Jewish-oriented ones (Limudei kodesh can be a big problem, especially for home schooling boys, since virtually no women can teach gemara meaning you need a largely unemployed husband to teach the boys).
Schools do accept kids over the summer. I was going to be home schooled at one point, and was accepted to a school over the summer. You need to use all the protektzia you can get.
Tell your neighbors, friends, Rabbi, etc. and G-d willing your children will be in a school by next year. Don’t give up. Dedicate time every day to calling people.
On the other hand, if you really want to home school, that is a valid choice. But you shouldn’t feel forced into it.
Involuntary home schooling is a shanda.
While it may be necessary to home school in the case of a child’s illness or if one lives in a community that doesn’t have a school – it is an outrage if someone can’t get into a frum school. Unless someone wants to homeschool, they shouldn’t be forced to do so, and are very unlikely to be successful.
Please no Public School – there are people who can help. Nechomas Yisroel 718-871-7197 can help. they place kids into Yeshivas / schools all the time.
I dealt with a kid of ours who was thrown out of school and it did not take long for her to become a non religious.
I am here to help but the MOD wont let me post my info.
Re: Involuntary homeschooling
I suggest determining who is the posek (or poskim) of the people running the school. One can make an argument that by halacha the Jewish child is entitled to a Jewish education, and that one can ask a Beis Din to order the school (which in practice means appealing to the gedolim who serve as the poskim of the principle/board/etc.).
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