Blog Topic: Satisfactory Instruction

How to Measure Home School Education

article by Karl Martin
published in the December 2001 issue of Home Rules, the OFTP members' newsletter

Are you making the right choice? I have been a home educating parent for a number of years. We have only one child who is now a teenager. Except for a brief experience at public school in grades two and three, he has received the majority of his education here at home. I will admit…

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7 Reasons Why Ontario Home Educators Reject Being Monitored

2013 Web Editor's Note: This article was written at a time when many Ontario homeschooling parents felt harassed by attempts by school boards to conduct routine monitoring of their homeschooling practices. Since then, Policy/Program Memorandum No.131 was released (June 2002), and it explicitly revoked the Johnson Memorandum practices of routine monitoring.

written in 2001 by an unnamed OFTP member

Reasons that some Home Educating Parents/Guardians have rejected local school board attempts to actively monitor their home instruction: 1. They believe that under the Ontario Education Act Section 21(2) that parents may choose to educate their children at home and provide them with satisfactory instruction. 2. If information comes to light that parents may not be…

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More Than Satisfactory

posted by an OFTP member

“Satisfactory instruction”? The members of the Ontario Federation of Teaching Parents are very interested in providing the very best of instruction for their children. They want instruction to be “more” than “satisfactory.” “Also, unlike most teachers, homeschooling parents *never* lose track of their ‘former students’! We know exactly how each and every one of them…

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Comments on Satisfactory Instruction

Historical Reference Only - These comments no longer apply, and are provided only as an historical record. There is no clear indication of when these comments were written -- the file was last modified in 2005 but the piece was clearly written before 2002 when Policy/Program Memorandum No.131 revoked the Johnson Memorandum.

comments in response to questions, by Albert Lubberts, OFTP President at the time

1. As we know, inquiries can be requested by school boards and conducted by the ministry. They must be conducted under Section 24(2) of the Education Act. This allows the Provincial School Attendance Counsellor (PSAC) to appoint one or more persons who are not employees of the board that operates the school that the child…

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Leeds-Grenville Commentary on Satisfactory Instruction

Historical Archive -- This article refers to meetings held in 1996. All school board policies have since been revoked and replaced with the Ministry of Education's Policy/Program Memorandum No.131. The discussion about "satisfactory instruction" is nevertheless still relevant.

article by Fred Schueler
published in the (or rather, a) 1997 or 1998 issue of Home Rules, the OFTP members' newsletter

In April 1996 the Education Policy Committee of the Leeds and Grenville County Board of Education proposed a Homeschooling Policy that would self-authorize the Board to require plans and evaluate instruction by parents. This policy was only slightly modified from the Board’s current policy, with which, for several years, most home-based educators in the United…

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