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May 29, 2008
Third Time's The Charm
I've said it before. Twice. This time, I waited until the job actually started, and papers have been signed. I think.
Are you ready? We are moving. To Virginia.
Virginia, this is your last chance, do you hear? If it doesn't work this time, I'm giving up.
We like Michigan. We really do. However, the whole lack of a job bit gets old. Ironically, when Jeff applied for this job, it was in Texas - not only Texas, but just up the street from where we used to live. But that turned out to be incorrect, and the job is really in Virginia. Where we kept trying to move to, and failing. Go figure. I guess the trick was to not try to move to Virginia? (By the say, I'm also not trying to move to London.)
This will be the first place we've lived where, as homeschoolers, we will have to report to the government.
Posted by lynx at May 29, 2008 10:36 PM
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Where in VA?
Posted by: COD at May 30, 2008 7:54 AM
The job is in Falls Church. I don't yet know where we'll be living.
Posted by: Stephanie at May 30, 2008 11:28 AM
Good luck, with both the move and the reporting :)
Posted by: Becky at May 30, 2008 6:16 PM
Damn it, I was really hoping for Chicago. :P
Posted by: KathyJo at May 30, 2008 9:36 PM
Curses!
Reportin to the man.
BTW Im trying not to move to Prague.
Scott
Posted by: Scotty B at May 30, 2008 9:50 PM
Hi 1/16th!
I know you are on the LCC list and at the WTM board. Anyway, I grew up in Falls Church and live about 10 minutes away in Vienna, VA. So if you need any help, let me know!
Reporting in VA is not hard, btw.
Posted by: Faith at May 31, 2008 4:37 PM
You are not so much reporting in VA as telling them you are homeschooling. It's a form letter more or less that you send in around August along with standardized test scores from the previous year. I think you have to be in the 35th percentile or something like that. It's not a high bar. That will be your only contact with the school system. In 10 year of homeschooling here we have never even spoken with a "govt official."
Feel free to ping me with questions about commute times, parts of town, etc.
Posted by: COD at June 2, 2008 8:00 AM
Wow. I'm so excited for you. And I get that it's not whether it's "hard" to report, it's the fact that they mandate it. Blech.
I'm so glad Jeff got the job, and that things are looking up. Who knows? Maybe Virginia will be the place. I know AL wasn't in my top 100, and yet, surprisingly, it's been really good to us. I hope VA treats you as well. :-)
Dy
Posted by: Dy at June 3, 2008 7:36 AM
Fatih - can you find us a nice, inexpensive house to rent in Vienna, big enough for four kids? Finding a rental certainly has been interesting, so far.
Chris, like Dy says - I know the procedure there is easy, but I've always lived in states where you don't have to do anything. No notification, no testing, nada. I like it that way. I also don't like that they test every year, from first grade on. Blech.
Thanks for the well wishes, everyone. We move in a month, if we can find a place to live by then.
Posted by: Stephanie at June 4, 2008 7:45 AM
Like other posters, I grew up in the area. You may have to widen your search a bit, but something should appear. Please feel free to email me if you have any questions. The plus side - you'll be really close to all sorts of great, FREE museums!
Posted by: Anne/navhelowife at June 7, 2008 7:06 AM