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How many of you know that the volunteers with the Indiana Home Educators' Network do more than just help manage our IndianaHomeschoolers List?

How many of you know that since the turn of the century, the partnership of the IHEN.org Web Project and the IndianaHomeschoolers e-list has been helping thousands of Hoosier parents decide if homeschooling is right for them?

How many of you know that we have over a couple dozen volunteer County Contacts and Special Needs Advisors available directly by e-mail and via our statewide resource directory, who answer questions almost every day, from parents interested in homeschooling?

Since September of 2007, we've received hundreds of letters from parents who are interested in learning more about homeschooling. One of the most frequent questions asked of homeschooling parents is, "What made you decide to homeschool?" The reasons parents are leaving public schools to homeschool that we have been reading tends to be remarkably different from what we read in the media. So we thought sharing some excerpts might be of interest.

We've grouped the letters by topic or "reason for homeschooling," with the most recent at the top. To respect privacy, we are not using names or any identifying information other than county or origin. Rest assured, however, the mail is real.

Most every one of these letters received a personal reply from one of our volunteer County Contacts, as well as our IHEN Help File and a list of Quick Links to get them started on their homeschooling journey. Without the tireless help of these volunteers, IHEN wouldn't be able to Help Hoosiers Homeschool the way we do. If you are interested in volunteering as an IHEN County Contact, you can write to Carol Pozos, our County Contacts Project Director, for more information. Our goal is to have a personal contact person in every county in Indiana, Helping Hoosiers Homeschool. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Why more Hoosiers are considering homeschooling:

Public School isn't meeting the needs of my child

 

Special Needs and IEP's aren't being met in public school

 

Public School environment isn't safe

 

Claims of alleged abuse/assault/bullying in Public School

 

Public School is hassling me about homeschooling or about transferring, procedures or worse, telling me, "You have to homeschool."

 

It almost seems like schools don't want kids to learn anymore... just attend. General dissatisfaction

 

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...we've received hundreds of letters from parents who are interested in learning more about homeschooling. One of the most frequent questions asked of homeschooling parents is, "What made you decide to homeschool?"

 

 

 

 

 

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The Indiana Code
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We took a crack at explaining the Indiana education code in words we can understand. It's not legal advice, but it's the best we can do. Read IHEN's Indiana Legal Code Document. We also added a new commentary on The Reporting Enrollment Issue. Both are available now on

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