2007-03-12 17:41:39 · 6 answers · asked by SusieQ 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Home Schooling
You may only do the schooling in the form of helping out. If you are not the child(ren)'s legal guardian you MAY NOT homeschool them..at least not in the State of Florida.
While a parent does not have to have any type of certification or degree to Homeschool their own child(ren), once you start adding other people's children into the mix (cousin's, neighbor,friend) then you must have a STATE certification or be part of an Umbrella School.
There is a differance between Homeschool Groups and Umbrella Schools. A Homeschool group is a group of Homeschoolers who get together for different activities, but the parents are responsible for their children(documentation,type of learning,time spent learning).The parent(s) are the one who have to face the Homeschool Review Committee aka Portoflio Review at a 10 to 15 day notice.
Umbrella Schools (which can get costly) simply keep all the above for the Homeschooler. They also offer you the choice of (on occasion) following your own curriculum or following theirs. You still must document how many days the child goes to school and keep a portfolio, you just send them the stuff instead of keeping it yourself.
I know this seems like a lot of info, but it's better to have more of the NEEDED info than no info at all.
2007-03-13 07:17:51 · answer #1 · answered by HistoryMom 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and no. Ultimately the child's parent has to be the one responsible for filing the paperwork with the local county and maintaining the child's portfolio and then having it looked over by a certified teacher each year and signing the paperwork (you as cousin cannot sign the paperwork). The other possibility is to sign up for an umbrella school (or cover school) in Florida which is usually a small fee, $10 or $20 a year, and send in your attendance dates, which will be 180 days out of the year and there again the parent has to sign up for the umbrella school and sign for this responsibility.
I don't think there would be any problem with you teaching the child, esp. if you have an umbrella school with you teaching many or a majority of the homeschool classes, but the parent would still be the one responsible for making sure that the classes are being taught, you are capable of doing the teaching, and the umbrella school receiving the dates that they are being taught, etc.
Since you don't have to provide any info to the umbrella school as to what is being taught in the homeschool or who is teaching the classes I don't see how it could be a problem unless you are breaking a Florida law while teaching the homeschool classes (hurting your cousin or something which I am sure you are not).
2007-03-13 01:53:36 · answer #2 · answered by Karen 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so. I just went to the Home School Legal Defense Organization [hslda.org] to check out the FL hsing laws, and it looks to me like the person doing the hsing has to be a parent or guardian. It was in Adobe Acrobat and I just could not get it to copy so I could put the reference here...
I can't guarantee you that this is true. If you go to that website you can find it yourself, or you can find the local hs group or state group and ask them.
2007-03-13 00:56:52 · answer #3 · answered by Cris O 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When I checked out home schooling the same ruled applied in all the states that only a mother or father or legal gaurdian can home school a child.
2007-03-13 00:51:11 · answer #4 · answered by darlene100568 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Check in to the laws, but, I think you can help school them as long as the parent is the primary one responsible for what they are learning.
That isn't to say you can't essentially provide care and help them with work assigned by his parents.
Good luck
2007-03-13 13:46:47 · answer #5 · answered by Melissa C 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes,
2007-03-13 00:45:14 · answer #6 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋