Have any of you ever had a problem with being denied a dismissal from jury duty even if you put on the form that you homeschooled? I have never had a problem until last year. Even then I can't honestly say it was a problem. Last year they denied my request and told me to call them for further information. When I did, the lady was very friendly and explained that they did not understand my request. When I explained my hours and required days she went ahead and excussed me. Today I received another summons and I am enclosing a more indepth letter explaining my reasons. Hopefully they do not deny it this time because it will put Ems behind in her studies and the required amount of days she is required to complete. Patty
I have never been summoned for jury duty, but a friend was last year. She told them that she had to teach a certain # of days and had to have grades in to her umbrella school by a certain day. If she spent a month on jury duty she wouldn't have made it. She was dismissed.
I honestly don't know what I'd do with my kids if I was required to do jury duty. I don't even have a baby sitter for date nights with my dh. There's no way I could find someone to take care of them for days!
I was thinking the same thing. I mean, push coem to shove, I could take them 40 miles East, to my Sister in laws. But every day? Besides, she has pit bulls in her living room next to the un locked guns and more....
If the folks at the court will not dismiss you for homeschooling, there is a good chance that the lawyers who select will. LOL Where tinfoil hat, carry a gas mask under your arm, and carry a sign about the NWO, or 2nd amendment rights being infringed upon, just to be sure you are not selected. LOL
I would really LIKE to be on jury duty! But I can understand the "hardship" to it. I was excused once when I was teaching, because it was during the time when I had to write my IEP's. Personally, I would try to arrange for someone to watch the kids. It would take some doing.... Then each day I would give them each a list of what I would expect of them to do. This year I'm not sure I could pull it off, since I'm "on the road" three days a week taking the kids places.
I nearly choked on the image that popped into my head of someone going into court in a tinfoil hat. My husband is retired from law enforcement and had to deal with a woman who wore a pot under a stocking hat, an apron lined with can lids and swore it was to protect her from rays from space. She was a strange one for sure. I can just see her showing up for jury duty. A friend of ours is a judge. I need to ask her what would happen if someone showed up like that! I got a letter for federal jury duty when our baby was going through all her operations for her cleft, and they told me I had to report anyway but to call a number the night before to see what I was supposed to do. This went on for a year and I never once had to report. I prayed my way out of that one. I knew they wouldn't seat me on a jury anyway with Freddy being a police chief, but I had to do it or be in comtempt. I wouldn't mind jury duty in our county but not for a year! Even if it was only a couple of days a week.
I can't believe that some of you have NEVER gotten called for jury duty. WOW!!! I got called about 2 weeks after registering to vote. HA! Got out of it because I was a student. Got called at least one other time, while I was still a student and have gotten out of it about 3 times because I am primary care giver for children under age 8 or 10 whatever it says. I wonder what I will do when I get called and my kids don't meet the automatic "out" anymore...I figure I've got at least 5-7 years before that happens. Hey there you go just have another kid. ROFL ROFL I'm sorry but no one would want to be the poor clerk to tell me that I had to show up anyway when my kid was in the hospital. I'm not going to hire a babysitter to go sit in court sorry.
I just learned today that there's a bill here in Ohio that will officially excuse HS'ing parents from Jury Duty.
HSLDA sent their weekly thing. They had a new site about Special Need kids, and I checked it out, because I talked with Carl recently about perhaps having Faythe tested. There was a map of the US, and I clicked on Ohio. It gave some stuff they were "watching" Ohio for, and that was one of them.
Oh, hmmm, wonder if Washington has anything like that? I'll have to try to figure it out. (I'm not an HSLDA member) Thanks for the info.!
There should be a law in all states that excuses homeschoolers from jury duty. I cannot legally hand my daughter over to some other person to school because her dad and I are signed up as her only teacher. We would be going against our original forms of agreement. The only way I could do this is to find a person who qualifies as a private tutor, which I do not know, and then change my information with the program I am inrolled in otherwise I would be homeschooling illegally because I do not have an affidavit with the public school, being that I am covered through a private homeschooling group instead and I am accountable to their rules. It will work out I am sure. As much I find jury duty exciting it is not possible with our homeschooling.
Oh, honestly!!! How ridiculous can one be??? (That's not directed at you, but the stupidity of the law!) So when you homeschool, you have to write down specifically WHO will be doing it, and then no one else can do it unless you go through all kinds of red tape? How does that work for co-ops, etc? This year, my daughter is taking an English class outside my home, plus we're doing History as part of a co-op with two other moms teaching. Plus I'm considering putting another daughter in an art class for HS'ers.
Yep!!! It is silly indeed. Because she is enrolled in a private program, she takes anything extra with them. She can take what ever subject if need be. Outside of the program is handled differently. For example, Ems is in ballet for P.E. At the beginning of the year I have to write this down on the subject form and turn it in to the program. So in the case that I am called upon by the system, I am covered as far as accountability. So it is alright for this to be used for school. Pretty much any subject that is considered a state rquirement has to be taught by me. Because I am not estabished as a private school but rather under one, I am required to operate as they see fit. They are a very easy program and I love it but if I took Ems to somebody else to school for a period of time then I am breaking state requirements and they are the ones that could give me a hard time. According to the state options a student has to be enrolled in an idependent study program through a public system, or they have to be taught by a person who qualifies as a private tutor, or we can be under a homeschooling group and you have to go by their rules, or you can establish your home as a private school. The reason we went with the program is because they provide many extra activities. They allow you to educate however you see fit with the exception that Handsome and I are the only instructors because we are not estabished as a private school and could get in trouble legally otherwise. I hope that made sense!!!:? Some places in California are great to homeschool in others are a bit more strict.
New Mexico Also requires the "Teacher" to be a parent or legal Guardian. So I cannot Hire a private tutor Unless I am presnt for the lesson to "oversee" it. THat said, I have never heard of New Mexico actually cecking to see if this rule is followed... We only turn in one onepage form at the beginning of each school year. No one actually checks what has been done.
