LANSING, MI (WTVB) – State Representative Jennifer Wortz has introduced a plan to allow home educated students to enroll in any class at their local public school.
Wortz says House Bill 4330 would repeal a provision of Michigan law banning state school aid for any homeschool or private school student wanting to take a core academic course at public school. She said opening essential classes to all students will provide parents fairness and flexibility to choose the best education for their students.
“By opening all public school classes to homeschool students, my plan will bridge the gap between public school and home education,” Wortz said. “We should expand homeschool freedoms in Michigan and give parents the flexibility to educate their children where they learn best. Home-educated young people have already benefited from studying fine arts, computer science, and other optional courses at our public schools. Our public schools should welcome homeschool students into all classes, not just electives.”
Michigan currently provides state aid to public schools for homeschool and private school students enrolled part-time to take elective courses. The state does not offer school aid for these part-time students to take math, English, science, or social studies courses that are essential for grade progression or high school graduation.
HB 4330 was referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
How about if you are in public school and want to take a course in homeschool, such as piano lessons, guitar lessons or private art classes? Homeschool pays for all these private classes, but public school doesn’t!
You’re kidding, right? I mean, any thinking person would know the answer. Do you even understand what HOMEschooling means? Homeschools are not institutions or organizations. We are FAMILIES.
We get NO money from governments or grants. We pay for EVERYTHING out of OUR pockets. We don’t get tax credits, while at the same time paying school taxes that do not benefit us.
WE, the PARENTS, teach them, or we pay a person, or some kind of place to teach them.🤦♀️ That’s basically how our co-ops work, too. Once a week we bring our shared knowledge and skills and get compensated a nominal fee for our time and effort for the classes we teach.
So if public school kids want to do things homeschoolers do, they should ask their PARENTS to do it, like we do. Or they can ask us how much we would charge, if we were the ones doing the teaching.
I smell teacher’s unions here
Your tax dollars pay for an educated workforce that continues to create the greatest economy history and world has ever witnessed. Seems like a pretty nice benefit.
A student being homeschooled means the school isn’t getting funds for that student. That means, NO, they have no right to any help in any form from the school. They’re doing everything in their power to destroy public education.
This would seem to me a way to being homeschoolers back to public school. If you want the money for their enrollment, then you should get them back in a seat to count that attendance. Washington state has very good rules applying to homeschoolers and they even have entire public schools that cater to homeschoolers. Homeschoolers pay their taxes like everyone else, but they get no benefit from their public funding, so it is right to support all children with the money that was earmarked for them.
Sounds like as sneaky way to make the curry dominate in school again because they know they’re losing enrollment big time.
I meant to say government wants to dominate school again