Thank you all for your prayers and great advice! It went pretty well. We were in contact with HSLDA, and the attorney even called the social worker for us, too, trying to get him to drop it. He wouldn’t, so he did come out to the house. But he kept it on education, which was great, and he seemed impressed with our schoolroom and my notes I took on the kids from last year. We are testing for the year next week, so I need to send in those scores as soon as I have them (which I will get the same day – we use the Peabody). And one thing I didn’t realize about MN is that the location of the test also has to be approved by the school district. So I need to call the superintendent today and get that location squared away. No one who administers the Peabody comes “way out” by me (I’m not that far…), so we are going to my grandparents’ house where we lived for 7 months before buying this house. I know the kids are comfortable there. So hopefully my “sob story” will be OK with the school district… More prayers for that, but otherwise, we have proven that the kids are perfectly fine and I am doing my job.
BTW, we did also find out who called us in, and we were correct. <sigh> So the kids have lost a couple good friends, but they are OK with it and understand why they can’t play with them anymore. And people wonder why homeschoolers are always so defensive…….
So glad it went ok, and I will pray for the testing – don’t worry, you know you are doing ok, and keep up the HSLDA membership, for the odd moron who has nothing better to do than stick their noses where it does not belong. Linda
Great news! So glad to hear it went well. I’m sorry you had to go through all that due to immature neighbors, but am thankful it’s turned out o.k. Will pray for testing, I’m sure it will all turn out fine!!! Blessings, Gina
Sadly there are some people out there who feed on making other people miserable because they themselves are miserable. Just hold your head up and move on. Living a happy and healthy life is the best revenge!
Sara, glad to hear things went well. I’m wondering, though, when you say that you have to send in your test scores, do you simply mean to your school district, or do you have to send them to the CPS worker? If it’s the latter, did HSLDA assure you that it’s okay and/or necessary to do so? I’m just not keen on any agency having more information than they are entitled to by law, so I was just wondering….