NYS Reporting to BOCES question

[Blossom'sGirl]

I have been homeschooling in NYS for over 14 years and have never had a reporting problem.  I just received notification that our school district is handing over all the homeschool paperwork to the regional BOCES.  My question is that if the NYS reg. specifically say to report to the superintendent, the how can they just push that off on a whole separate agency?  (Or are they not that separate?) 

 

I know there are others on this board who report to BOCES and am wondering how it is going.  I read the manual they included and so far my only complaint is that they are asking for hours per subject in high school instead of cumulative hours which I am not sure is in  the regs.

 

Any thoughts?

Michelle

[SparklyUnicorn]

I know of some others in NY who report through Boces.

 

I wouldn't have a problem with that part, but I would not appreciate being asked for hours per subject since it is not asked for in the regs.

 

 

[SparklyUnicorn]

To add, the super in my district has NEVER handled the paperwork.  He has always turned that over to a principle and most recently to some newly formed position titled "compliance specialist".  I imagine in most districts the super never looks at it. 

 

I don't really care so long as they follow the regs. 

Edited December 4, 2017 by SparklyUnicorn

[mschickie]

A lot of the school districts are doing this.  There is nothing in the regs that say a superintendent can not delegate the paperwork to someone else.   I would not put the hours per subject even if BOCES asks for it.  Just continue to do your quarterly the way you always have.  If you are a member of HSLDA and BOCES gives you a hard time about the listing of the hours as one lump sum then call HSLDA and they will take care of it.

[Lecka]

We are in a very small town and here it seems BOCES is not very separate. A nearby town is larger and there it seems BOCES is more separate.

 

A lot of things for the small towns seem to be centralized with BOCES.

 

I don't know much about it, but it seems like a nice system to me, to allow more opportunities for some very small towns to provide more than they could in a small school district.

[Blossom'sGirl]

I don't really have a problem with the superintendent pushing this to someone else except for the fact that I could go in and talk with him.  We live in a very small district and they really were not very involved.  I am concerned with having to deal with an overly picky person whose office is over an hour away from me.

 

I am also wondering how this will affect my current senior.  My IHIPS and Quarterly reports are not to the standard they show.  My IHIPS just had a list of curriculum used or written plan where they also want to know what is specifically covered in it each text.  My quarterly reports were mostly just grades with a statement referring to hours done and percentage of IHIP covered.  Their sample shows a written description of what was covered that quarter along with a grade.  Could the ask me to go back and redo all that?  

 

My current senior has shown zero interest in college (or anything after highschool), but I am determined that he will at least have the correct paperwork to go when he is ready.  

[SparklyUnicorn]

I don't really have a problem with the superintendent pushing this to someone else except for the fact that I could go in and talk with him.  We live in a very small district and they really were not very involved.  I am concerned with having to deal with an overly picky person whose office is over an hour away from me.

 

I am also wondering how this will affect my current senior.  My IHIPS and Quarterly reports are not to the standard they show.  My IHIPS just had a list of curriculum used or written plan where they also want to know what is specifically covered in it each text.  My quarterly reports were mostly just grades with a statement referring to hours done and percentage of IHIP covered.  Their sample shows a written description of what was covered that quarter along with a grade.  Could the ask me to go back and redo all that?  

 

My current senior has shown zero interest in college (or anything after highschool), but I am determined that he will at least have the correct paperwork to go when he is ready.  

 

I doubt they'd ask you to redo anything.  My district would not accept grades/hours done on quarterlies.  The reg does in fact specify more than that.  But, again, if it was accepted prior they aren't going to ask for you to redo anything.