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THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 7, 2004. PAGE 21.
AMDSB told number of home-schooled children drops
By Stew Slater
Special to The Citizen
The number of potential Avon
Maitland District School Board
students being instructed at home
has dropped over the past few years.
according to a report delivered to
trustees at a meeting Tuesday, Sept.
2i.
Education superintendent Barry
Wagner, in an analysis provided
yearly by the Avon Maitland board
but not by all Ontario school boards,
reported 190 potential Avon
Maitland students from 93 families
were home-schooled in 2003-04.
That's down from 197 in 2002-03
And close to 300 in 2000.
Preliminary statistics suggest the
number may have dropped again in
2004-05 — to as low as 165. ,
Wagner told trustees there are no
new home-schooling trends in
Huron and Perth Counties,
compared to previous years. That
means there remains a cluster of
home-schooling families in northern
Huron County, with Wingham-area
elementary schools Howick Central
and Turnberry Central being the
nearest public school for 24 and 10
home-schooled students, respec-
tively.
Twelve home-schooled children
live within the catchment area of
Victoria elementary school n
Goderich.
Among secondary schools, F.E.
Madill in Wingham would be home
to 12 of the students, should they
return to the public system.
The 2003-04 analysis records no
home-schooled students in Grades
11 and 12, partly becalse a
considerable number of home-
schooling families choose to have
their children return to publicly-
funded systems for secondary
school, and partly because the hoard
stops tracking the progress of home-
schooled children after they reach 16
— the age at which school is no
longer mandatory.
Addressing the longer-term drop
in the hoard's home-schooling
numbers, Wagner noted there are
now very few families — he
estimated five per cent of home-
schoolers — who choose to stay out
of publicly funded systems for what
hecalled "social" reasons.
The vast majority, he said, opt for
home-schooling for "religious"
reasons.
Wagner suggested the Avon
Maitland board remains committed
to retaining a minimal level of
contact with home-schooling
families, despite the removal in 2002
of an education ministry requirement
for boards to visit each home
annually. He says this not only
makes it easier to make sure parents
are fulfilling their legal obligations
to provide particular elements'of the
provincial curriculum, but it also
fosters the home/school board
relationship and has inspired some
parents to return their children to the
Avon Maitland system.
This year's preliminary numbers
— as low as 165 home-schoolers —
support that argument.
"And I think the communication
and the advice has played a role in
that," Wagner said. "Acl.vice on
textbooks, materials — not all
boards do that, and I think it helps in
terms of the relationships."
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