Resolutions
- 01. WPA and Choice in Education (4/88)
- 02. Wisconsin's Home Schooling Law (4/88)
- 03. State-Mandated Standardized Testing (4/88)
- 04. Home Schooling, Private Education, and the DPI (4/88)
- 05. State Review and Approval of a Home-Based Private Educational Program's Calendar and Curriculum (4/89)
- 06. Teacher Certification of Home Schooling Parents (4/89)
- 07. Entry and Re-entry Into Public Schools (4/90)
- 08. Home Schoolers Taking Courses in Public Schools (4/90)
- 09. Unity Among Home Schoolers (4/90)
- 10. The Primary Role of Parents in Education (4/91)
- 11. Opposition to State Control of Education and the Family (4/91)
- 12. State goals in education (4/92)
- 13. America 2000 and Wisconsin 2000 (4/92)
- 14. Education Vouchers (4/92)
- 15. Outcome-Based Education (4/93)
- 16. Government Collaboration (4/93)
- 17. Maintain the Distinction Between Public and Private Schools (4/93)
- 18. Screening, Evaluating, and Labeling Children (4/94)
- 19. The Federal Government and Homeschooling (4/94)
- 20. Privacy and Homeschooling (4/94)
- 21. The Independence of the Homeschooling Movement (4/95)
- 22. Families First (4/95)
- 23. Homeschooling, Educational Reform, Freedoms, and Money (4/95)
- 24. Maintaining Wisconsin's Homeschooling Law (5/96)
- 25. Maintaining the Fundamental Foundation of Parental Rights and Responsibilities (5/96)
- 26. Attempts by the State to Determine Eligibility to Homeschool (4/97)
- 27. School-To-Work Programs (4/97)
- 28. Day-Time Curfews, Truancy Sweeps, and ID Cards for Homeschoolers (5/98)
- 29. The Real Cost of Tax Credits for Homeschoolers' Educational Expenses (5/98)
- 30. Impact on Homeschooling Freedoms of Homeschoolers' Qualifying for Public School Sports Teams (5/98)
- 31. High Schools' Mock Trial Involving a Homeschooler (5/98)
- 32. Graduation Test (5/99)
- 33. Legislation That Undermines Homeschooling Freedoms (5/99)
- 34. Laws designed to prevent certain families from homeschooling (5/00)
- 35. Survey Research on Homeschooling (5/00)
- 36. Standardized Testing Required by the Federal or State Government (5/01)
- 37. Homeschools Defined by Law as One Family Unit (5/01)
- 38. Public E-Schools (5/02)
- 39. Government Imposed Immunizations (5/02)
- 40. Education Vouchers, Educational Investment Accounts, and Tax Credits and Deductions for Education (5/03)
- 41. Maintaining the Distinction Between Public Schools and Homeschools (and Other Private Schools) (5/03)
- 42. The Media and Homeschooling (5/04)
- 43. Student Identification Database Systems (5/04)
- 44. Mental Health Screening (5/05)
- 45. No Child Left Behind (5/05)
- 46. History of Homeschooling in Wisconsin (5/06)
- 47. Institutionalizing Young Children (5/07)
- 48. Maintaining the Basic Principles of Homeschooling (5/08)
- 49. Importance of Parents to Children’s Development and Learning and a Family’s Well Being (5/09)
- 50. Prevent Further Erosion of the Role of Parents in Children’s Early Years (5/10)
- 51. New Kindergarten Statute and Homeschooling (5/11)
- 52. Encouraging Homeschoolers to File Form PI-1206 Online in Accordance With the Law (5/12)
- 53. Common Core State Standards in Education (5/13)
- 54. Maintain the Distinction Between Homeschooling and Public Virtual Charter Schools (5/14)
- 55. Maintain Parental Rights in Education by Refusing to Sign Public School Withdrawal Forms (5/15)
- 56. Maintaining the Fundamental Foundation of Parental Rights and Responsibilities (5/15)
- 57. Impact on Homeschooling Freedoms of Homeschoolers’ Qualifying for Public School Sports Teams (5/15)
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WHPA
PO Box 2502
Madison, WI 53701
07. Entry and Re-entry Into Public Schools (4/90)
Whereas home schooled students have consistently been shown to perform very well academically and socially; and
Whereas entry/re-entry policies have been established without a demonstrated need or basis in fact by local public school districts in Wisconsin in response to or anticipation of Home-Based Private Educational Program students entering public schools; and
Whereas approximately 4,000 former Home-Based Private Educational Program students have successfully entered conventional schools over the past five years without such policies being in effect; and
Whereas such policies often discriminate against Home-Based Private Educational Program (HBPEP) students by applying different standards, criteria, and tests against HBPEP students than against other private or public school students entering a public school in the areas of test scores, social development, trial periods for grade placement, time requirements for graduation, acceptance of courses and grades for courses, and eligibility for awards; and
Whereas such policies can have serious lasting negative effects on a HBPEP student’s grade placement, school performance, and personal career; and
Whereas such policies are often in violation of a parent’s and student’s protection under the 1st, 4th, 9th, and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and Wisconsin equal protection, fair treatment, and anti-discrimination statutes; and
Whereas such policies can arbitrarily affect a parent’s and student’s free choice of public education, detour citizens from choosing a HBPEP, and punish a family for choosing a HBPEP for one or more of its members;
Be it resolved by members of the Wisconsin Parents Association (WPA) that WPA opposes such discriminatory policies, encourages its members to oppose the development and enactment of such discriminatory policies by local school boards, and encourages its members to work toward rescinding such discriminatory policies where they have been adopted. 4/90