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4.2.2 Home Schooling
A student is receiving home schooling if he or she is excused from compulsory attendance because the parents are providing satisfactory instruction at home.
When parents give a board written notification of their intent to provide home schooling for their child, the board should consider the child to be excused from attendance at school. The board should accept the written notification of the parents each year as evidence that the parents are providing satisfactory instruction at home. The board should send a letter each year to the parents, acknowledging the notification. If there are reasonable grounds to suspect that the child is not receiving satisfactory instruction at home, the board should take steps to deter- mine whether the instruction is satisfactory.
See also section 4.3.2, “Students Transferring from Home Schooling, a Non-Inspected Private School, or a School Outside Ontario”.
PPM No. 131, “Home Schooling” (June 17, 2002)
www.edu.gov.on.ca/extra/eng/ppm/131.html
4.3 Student Transfers
4.3.1 Students Transferring between Schools within Ontario
Elementary school students who transfer from one Ontario elementary school
to another will be placed in the appropriate grade by the principal, based on the information in the student’s Provincial Report Card and in the student’s Ontario Student Record. This placement decision is also informed by other relevant docu- mentation, such as the Individual Education Plan, as well as consultation with parents and the student.
Secondary school students who transfer from one Ontario secondary school to another will have their credits (as recorded on their Ontario Student Transcript) transferred with them, along with information on their progress towards meeting graduation requirements (i.e., whether they have met the literacy graduation requirement; their accumulated community involvement hours). The principal of the receiving school may award credit for work started in the previous school but completed in the receiving school. Where this work cannot be completed
in the receiving school, the receiving principal may, after consultation with the principal of the sending school, award a partial credit in recognition of the student’s achievement of some of the course expectations.
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