[WikiEN-l] Schools, notability, inclusionism, deletionism, etc.

Tue Sep 26 22:06:58 UTC 2006

On 9/26/06, Mark Wagner <carnildo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/25/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 25/09/06, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > There will have to be a line short of "all things that have any record
> > > claiming they may be a school of some sort".
> > > The first place that line seems logically to go, on first inspection,
> is
> > > "Paid teachers".
> >
> >
> > Third-party verifiability would be the first line.
>
> But where's the second line?  The Michigan homeschools are verifiable:
> since they're treated as private schools, they need to be registered
> with the Michigan Department of Education.

This is all based on my experience and what seems logical to me. I could be
dead wrong on this, but here goes:

I think the line is more toward organizational structure. Public schools are
generally controlled by some kind of district board of education, not to
mention that they usually have a principal and office staff, and often a
decision-making committee of some sort. Parochial schools are controlled by
a church, and private schools usually have some sort of board of
directors/trustees. While home schools are _regulated_ by the appropriate
department/board of education, they are not directly _run_ by that
department/board of education, and I'm not thinking that they have an
analogous board or principal/headmaster that the public and private schools
have. While technically, the parents serve as the "board," they aren't
exactly officially appointed/elected overseers in the same legal sense.

Speaking of legal, while home schools may register with their appropriate
department of education, they aren't necessarily established as a legal
entity in the same sense that public and private schools are.

Carl