The Requirements for home educating/homeschooling your children are very simple.
The FL state statute, section 1002.01, (F.S.), defines home education/schooling as the sequentially progressive instruction of a student directed by his or her parent or guardian in order to satisfy Florida’s compulsory education requirements.
The requirements of parents who establish a home education program are described in Florida Statute 1002.41 to be:
1. Send a “Letter of Intent” to the school district superintendent – county home education office of the county in which the student resides. The notice must be filed within 30 days of starting your ”home education/school program” and must include the following:
a. The name of each of the home education student(s)
b. The birthdate(s) of each student named.
c. The address at which each of the students reside.
d. The parent’s signature.
2. Maintain a portfolio of educational records. Statute defines a portfolio as
a. A log of educational activities which is made contemporaneously with the instruction and which designates by title any reading materials used, and
b. samples of any writings, worksheets, workbooks or creative materials used or developed by the student.
3. Make the portfolio available for inspection by the superintendent upon 15-day written notice (This is a rare occurance implimented in cases of non-complience of the other requirements. The FL state statute does not require the superintendent to inspect all portfolios).
4. Provide an annual educational evaluation of the student’s educational progress to the superintendent. The evaluation must consist of ONE of the following. (THE METHOD OF THE PARENT PROVIDING THE REQUIRED ANNUAL EVALUATION TO THE SUPERINTENDENT /COUNTY IS THE PARENT’S CHOICE OF ONE OF THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS):
a. A Florida certified teacher chosen by the parent may evaluate the child’s progress based on a review of the portfolio and discussion with the student.
[email, or call me anytime, for evaluations done easily, quickly and very economically ($25) I am a FL Dept. of Education certified teacher - exp. date: 6/30/16: CCTucker7@ gmail .com -no spaces of course - OR call: 904-272-7245 / 786-525-3545 C.C. Tucker]
b. The student may take any nationally-normed student achievement test administered by a certified teacher.
(I also administer achievement tests for home education in a very stress-free manner. FL Dept. of Education certified teacher -exp. date: 6/30/16: CCTucker7@ gmail .com – no spaces of course - OR call: 904-272-7245 / 786-525-3545 C.C. Tucker)
c. The student may take a state student assessment test at a location and under testing conditions approved by the school district.
d. The student maybe evaluated by a psychologist holding a valid, active license pursuant to Section 490.003 (7) or (8), F.S.
e. The student may be evaluated with any other valid measurement tool as mutually agreed upon by the parent and the superintendent.
5. Preserve each student’s portfolio for two years.
6. Submit a letter of termination to the school district superintendent upon completion of the home education program, enrollment in a public or private school or moving from the district.
More information for homeschooling / home education can be found through the following links:
http://www.homeschoolingflorida.com/
http://www.floridaschoolchoice.org/information/home_education/
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January 31, 2012
Mr. Charles Curtis Tucker,
Thank you for providing this service. I will be reaching out to you in a few months when our younger daughter in first grade will have an evaluation due.
You are a blessing for homeschool families.
Kristin Sipes
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1/18/2012
Greetings Mr. Tucker,
Thank you for your swift response and professional attention received throughout this process.
I look forward to our continued relations.
Best regards,
C. Gainey
{email, or call me anytime, for evaluations done easily, quickly and very economically ($25) I am a FL Dept. of Education certified teacher – exp. date: 6/30/16: CCTucker7@ gmail .com -no spaces of course – OR call: 904-272-7245 / 786-525-3545 C.C. Tucker}
1/2/2012
Thank you again! I’m so glad and appreciative that you are out there doing this service for us all!
Alana
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12/8/2011
Curtis,
Thank you so much for all of your help and for your service! I will be contacting you again very soon to evaluate our next oldest son.
Sincerely,
K. Clark
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12/1/2011
Curtis,
Thank you so much for taking care of our annual portfolio evaluations for the past two years. We really appreciate your time and trouble.
Best regards to you and your family,
D. Hudson
{I also administer achievement tests for home education in a very stress-free manner. FL Dept. of Education certified teacher -exp. date: 6/30/16: CCTucker7@ gmail .com – no spaces of course - OR call: 904-272-7245 / 786-525-3545 C.C. Tucker}
10/3/2011
Thank you so very much. We plan to use you as our annual evaluation every year if that is okay. You have been so very patient and kind. We had a wonderful experience with you.
Desarei
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9/13/2011
Hi Charles,
Thanks so much for your help and services.
Have a great week!
Lorrie.
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9/11/2011
Mr. Tucker,
Thank you! I am much relieved to get these evaluations completed!
Thank you for providing this service. I do very much appreciate it on behalf of the homeschooling community. I’m sure it’s not convenient for you to maintain your certification in order to be able to provide this evaluation service.
Sincerely,
W. Pesile
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8/10/2011
Alright! Thank you very much for your assistance. We look forward to working with you next year! God bless, Michelle and Bo
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7/27/2011
Mr. Tucker,
Thank you very much for your time and providing this service.
You will be hearing from us again next year.
Sincerely,
Margaret Milligan
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AND ANOTHER:
Hola!!! Muchas gracias Mr. Curtis. I loved the ” atentamente”…. I will keep in touch with you !!!!
Take care!
Hasta la vista !!!
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By educating our children ourselves, “at home,” we can truly prepare our children for “real life in today’s world” extremely better than what the majority of schools are doing, even most charter and many private schools. Yes, it is true. We are able to actually educate and prepare our children with extensive academic knowledge, and especially with helpful life skills, extremely better than the schools are doing. If you think about this rationally and intelligently for just a minute, this seems to be a “duh” statement. I don’t want to be rude or arrogant about it, so I would rather say that many people seem to presume that this is not such a “but of course” statement at all. I assume that these people don’t think much about it.
The first fact I would like to think about has to do with my putting “at home” in quotes above. I did this because the “home” education programs that many of us are conducting are not taking place “at home” much of the time. Our mobility and flexibility enables our school activities to be extremely rich with experiences in academics and life skills through many “field trips” to various places, often. We are able to visit many different businesses and places with a multitude of occupational activities, from technological to agricultural. We can go to special programs given by various museums, national & state parks, theaters, etc. anytime. We don’t require extra money for lunches, buses, parent permission slips, etc. We can even go spontaneously this morning, this afternoon, or tomorrow if we choose. We are the best private school choice, because of this and many reasons.
Many of our children are also taking part in music, performing arts, and sports training often, with serious and safe instructors, trainers and athletes. We are able to do this with the mobility and flexibility of our schedules. This also enables our school activities and experiences to prepare our children for “real life in today’s world” with vast academic knowledge and helpful life skills extremely better than the schools are doing.
We are able to do intensive studies in any, and every subject we want, whenever it is best for our children, for as long as we like. We have access to almost of all the same resources that the schools have, and many times, we have access to better resources than the schools have, or they don’t have, or just won’t have. With this ability we are able to prepare our children better than the schools are, for today’s world.
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If you are anywhere in Florida, especially in Lee county, Florida, you deserve a very stress free, trouble free, simple, quick homeschool evaluation for your annual evaluation required by the state/county for homeschooling in Florida.
Lee county homeschool evaluations are especially stressful. There is no need for the Annual Educational Evaluation to be sooo stressful and difficult.
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Evaluators are not required to review your “log of activities & reading list.” Evaluators are not to evaluate your homeschooling “program” at all. We are only to review you children’s work samples, period, to determine progress. According to the state law on home education and according to the Fl Dept. of Education, as evaluators, we are not to review the homeschooling parent’s program, reading log, much less “lesson plans.” Any county homeschooling employee asking for your “lesson plans,” as a homeschooling parent is absolutely out of line, according to the FL dept. of Education, School Choices Department.
Links to the FL home education law:
The Whole Chapter on Home Education;
FL Home Education:
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The first choice of a Homeschool Annual Evaluation is the portfolio review in which samples of a student’s work are reviewed by the evaluator to determine if the student is progressing or not. This is simple and what the portfolio review evaluation is based on is just that, seeing progress through reviewing the samples of work.
Email, or call me anytime, for evaluations done easily, quickly and very economically ($25) I am a FL Dept. of Education certified (exp. date: 6/30/16) teacher : CCTucker7@ gmail .com (no spaces of course) OR 904-272-7245 / 786-525-3545 C.C. Tucker
I conduct any standardized test you want anywhere in Florida.
I will be setting a schedule for Jan. thru May testing all over the state of Florida.
To find the contact information, and other FL county specific information click on the following link:
http://www.homeschoolingflorida.com/
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The first choice of a Homeschool Annual Evaluation is the portfolio review in which samples of a student’s work are reviewed by the evaluator to determine if the student is progressing or not. This is simple and what the portfolio review evaluation is based on.
Email, or call me anytime, for evaluations done easily, quickly and very economically ($25) I am a FL Dept. of Education certified (exp. date: 6/30/16) teacher : CCTucker7@ gmail .com (no spaces of course) OR 904-272-7245 / 786-525-3545 C.C. Tucker
As a home education evaluator, I am required at some point of the evaluation to “have a discussion with the student,” – portfolio review. So, since I am not required to ask any certain questions in particular and the “discussion with the student” seems to be simply a formality, I use the “discussion” to encourage the student to do their absolute best in everything they do.
I ask questions like:
What is your favorite subject to study? Do you like homeschooling? Why do you like homeschooling? etc.
Recently I got and excellent response to my questions from a teenaged homeschooling student. I could not have stated the advantages to home education better than she did.
When I asked if she liked doing her educational studies from home, and why or why not, this young lady replied that with home education she “can focus on ONE subject at a time and truly study each subject thoroughly.” She also mentioned that with her parents, from home she is able to do her schoolwork as long as she likes, or needs to, and at anytime that she desires.” She mentioned that with homeschooling she can have a flexible schedule that enables her to study subject areas in depth, and go many places at times that she needs to which makes it possible for her to really master the subject skills and concepts to a higher level that is not possible for her in most formalized schools.
Now those are the kinds of statements and discussions that you have when speaking to almost all home educated children; mature, intelligent and with good, creative character.
Home Education RULES!
Links to the FL home education law:
The Whole Chapter on Home Education;
http://bit.ly/vUqMXX
FL Home Education:
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NO, definitely NOT a SCAM. Yes, I am FL state certified, very professional, fair and reasonable. I am doing Annual Educational Evaluations very inexpensively. It is my contribution to truly helping our community and the generations of today.
The following is the Florida Dept. of Education web address to verify certified/licensed teachers credetials. Just type in Charles Tucker and look for my certification listed in 2 areas with my full name Charles Curtis Tucker:
http://www.fldoe.org/edcert/public.asp
The following link is a web site with some more detailed background information on me:
http://www.homeschool-evaluations.com/
Yes, if the parent desires I will send the annual evaluation directly to the county office immediately and the parent also will get a copy of everything including the county office’s reply confirming receiving the annual evaluation and processing it.
Email, or call me anytime, for evaluations done easily, quickly and very economically ($25) I am a FL Dept. of Education certified (exp. date: 6/30/16) teacher : CCTucker7@ gmail .com (no spaces of course) OR 904-272-7245 / 786-525-3545 C.C. Tucker
The following is an email from a homeschooling family that I finished the evaluations for recently:
Jxxxx Lxxxxxxxx
AND ANOTHER:
Hola!!! Muchas gracias Mr. Curtis. I loved the ” atentamente”…. I will keep in touch with you !!!!
Take care!
Hasta la vista !!!
I will post more testimonials later, and probably publish a testimonials page on the websites. Thank you all for your questions and patience with educating & inspiring our future. haleluYaH!
I am doing the Annual Educational Evaluations by the letter of the FL home education law. The Florida law is very simple and straight forward. All my methods and procedures for doing Annual Educational Evaluations result from my questions to the Florida Dept. of Education and their answers about Home Education Evaluations. The Florida Dept. of Education is who certifies me.
http://www.homeschoolingflorida.com/
It only takes a couple of hours to review a student’s work samples and determine if they are progressing or not. This is not like practicing Constitutional Law, performing brain surgery, or even rocket science. (what is happening to NASA & the Cape?) Why do “teacher/evaluators” charge $30 – $50 per hour (and more), and make up unnecessary reports/summaries that are not required by the Florida Law???
I am very happy to be able to help with homeschooling needs and relieve some of the stress and confusion about evaluations. Too many professional “educators” don’t SEEM to know what they are doing, and/or what the laws are, in the area of Home Education especially. Have you heard what they are doing in Miami?!?
Many schools are full of people (“professionals” they do get paid) that don’t know what they are doing when it comes to facilitating learning, motivating (“education”), academics, communication, socialization, discipline, etc. etc. etc.
We are the parents! We know what is BEST for our children and that is a top concern and priority for us; the well being, and quality education of our children! It takes real Love to raise a good, polite, happy, well educated, intelligent child. And that is what the schools don’t have much of, if any at all, any more.
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We are fed up and done with the lame excuse for educational services that the schools are performing & conducting more and more now. Even many of the private $chool$ are not really facilitating REAL learning, yet still charging us an outrageous amount of money for their tuition. We can take that tuition money and really educate our children, ourselves. We can spend time with our children, learning together with the top of the line materials, curricula, and going on the most fabulous field trips every week, not to mention the top of the line private & group lessons in the arts, music, sports, etc. With that amount of tuition money we can even get the best tutors if we like. Homeschooling is by far the best and most cost effective choice for our families & children.
See what some seasoned homeschooled students and parents have to say about it:
But, the truth is that to homeschool is not expensive at all, and we can save so much money by homeschooling, while really empowering our children to become the intelligent, creative people that they are meant to be, while growing and learning with them. There are so many of us homeschooling families out here, and so many resources available, with more resources becoming available daily, that it is really negligent to not home educate our children. Yes, it is a strong statement, but look what the school administrators and systems, and their personnel are doing to most children and families! We can, and will do better, together!
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Email, or call me anytime, for annual evaluation done easily, quickly and very economically ($25) I am a FL Dept. of Education certified (exp. date: 6/30/16) teacher : CCTucker7@ gmail .com (no spaces of course) OR 904-272-7245 / 786-525-3545 C.C. Tucker
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Some certified teachers say that homeschool students are required to take a standardized test for their annual educational evaluation. NOT!
Email, or call me anytime, for an annual evaluation done easily, quickly and very economically ($25) I am a FL Dept. of Education certified (exp. date: 6/30/16) teacher : CCTucker7@ gmail .com (no spaces of course) OR 904-272-7245 / 786-525-3545 C.C. Tucker
Some evaluators say that a homeschool student above the 6th grade level must have a several certified teachers evaluate their porfolio work samples, certified in each academic area. For example: a math certified teacher to evaluate the math work samples, and a certified language arts teacher to evaluate the reading/writing work samples, etc. Wrong!
I am shocked! These “evaluators” saying these things are certified teachers that are listed as evaluators on websites by some Florida county school boards!
What is going on? How can some Florida county school boards be so misleading, and why are some certified teachers so uninformed? These certified teachers are giving advice on education! I hate to say, but I must; many of these people (“teachers”) are in the classroom with children, “leading and guiding” them, or they used to be. Now they are advising homeschool parents!
Homeschool students are not REQUIRED to take any standardized test EVER. It is not required by law. The county school board cannot require a homeschool student to take a standardized test when the state of Florida has laws for homeschooling, that clearly state that one option, from among 5 options, to fulfill the annual educational evaluation required by law, is sending the county home education office a standardized test results. That is a option, not a requirement!
You can have a certified teacher give your home educated child a standardized test and send the results to the county home education office for your annual educational evaluation. You can also sign your child up to take the FCAT at a school in your county, if you choose those ways to fulfill the requirement of an annual educational evaluation. Most parents choose option # 1 in the Florida state statute for home education which states a certified teacher is to review the home educated student’s work, and have a discussion with the student. That’s it, period, to complete the annual educational evaluation, for any county in the state of Florida.
If you want your child’s annual educational evaluation done with no stress, no confusion, quickly and correctly, for lowest fee in the state of Florida, click on the following link. It is totally secure and your information will never go anywhere except to you, and the county office, as you specify. Or you can go back to the home page of this web site and just call, or email me. I will be happy to help in any way I can. I have been helping families with their children’s education since 1994. click> http://www.homeschool-evaluations.com/evaluation_request.htm
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Email, or call me anytime, for evaluations done easily, quickly and very economically ($25) I am a FL Dept. of Education certified (exp. date: 6/30/16) teacher : CCTucker7@ gmail .com (no spaces of course) OR 904-272-7245 / 786-525-3545 anytime. CCTucker
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Boys are sooo Great: http://www.homeschoolingflorida.com/
Our time with them is tooo short, and to send them to someone to spend hours everyday learning, exploring, discovering, playing, laughing, crying, growing, falling, running seems to be far from the most excellent way.
Let’s teach our children well and be their parents, friends, mentors, Good examples, disciplinarians, their mother and father, and be with them as much as we can until it is time for them to soar. Then they will always be close to us in every way. They are our responsibility, not someone elses. We will do the most excellent way for them. Time is presious. Spend as much as we can with our children and be the most excellent father and mother, husband and wife, and friends that we can be.
I hope I am listening to myself with ears to hear.
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