The Weather Report Survey

Please help NJHA track the “homeschooling weather report” by telling us about conditions in your community. You can check more than one response to each question. All questions are optional, of course, but fuller responses are a big help to us.

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What County do you live in?

What school district do you deal with? (Please fill out another form if more than one district.)

name:

Contact information: (address, email address,or phone number)

1) Does your district know that you’re homeschooling?

Yes
No
I don’t know

2) Was(were) your child(ren) enrolled in your district school before homeschooling?

Yes
No
No, but attended a private or parochial school

3) Did you send a letter of intent to homeschool this year?

Yes
No
Yes, after contact with the district
No, but I have in the past

4) Did you send any type of curricular “proof of equivalency” this year?

Yes
No
Yes, at the district’s request
No, but I have in the past

5) Have you had any other type of contact with the district regarding homeschooling?

Yes
No

6) If so, who initiated contact?

Me
The district

7) Contact was by:

Mail
Phone
Chance Meeting
Arranged meeting

8) name and position of the contact:

9) Which (if any) of these words describes your relationship with your district:

Nonexistent
Routine
Friendly
Cooperative
Detente
Mutual suspicion
Hostile
Lawyer time

10) Have you ever used an advocate or lawyer to intercede on your behalf?

Advocate
Advocacy group (such as ACLU, HSLDA, etc.)
Lawyer
An experienced homeschooler
No one

11) How did you decide what type of contacts to make with the district?

Followed local tradition
Advice of other local homeschoolers
Advice of other support group leader
Read a NJ homeschooling legal guide
Advice of legal advisor
Followed district policy
Decided on my own
Guessed and crossed my fingers that it was OK

12) Will you do the same next school year?

Yes
No
I hope not!
Undecided
Irrelevant. (Kids over age 16, moving out of state, etc.)

If there’s something not covered in the questions above, or if you want to give details of a contact, please use this space to write in your comments.

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NJ Homeschool Association
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Medford, NJ 08055
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