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hi guys I know it's been forever and a day but this is the long-awaited video in my series of how I started my school so this is the third video and guys you just really have to forgive me you know all of this pandemic thing has happened I've just been unmotivated and I just couldn't shake it but I am so super excited for whatever reason to get back on that proverbial horse and to get these videos knocked out so I just want to say once again how much I appreciate each of each and every last one of you who have followed that series and who continues to check back for the next video so without any further ado here we go before I share my screen with you I want to remind you guys about the first two videos in this series the first video in the series of high alright before I share my computer screen with you guys I wanted to just tell you once again or remind you about the first two videos in this series the first video in the series of how I started my school basically is a story time about how I got started quick faster than her it gives an overview I do think it's important for you to go and listen to it particularly if you're someone who does do not have a lot of resources I think it will give you a lot of motivation and inspiration along your journey because a lot of times like you know I said and probably both of those videos like I cannot believe the journey that I am on and how I don't want to say effortless but how with a lot of ease or like I thought that I would would have so many other problems or run into problems but I didn't sometimes I did but you know I was able to get over them so make sure you check that out and then video 2 is what I really went over the differences between a charter school a private school and religious schools so I do think it's important for you to check those out and I will make sure our to put to link them above as well as to put them down below in the description box all right so I'm gonna start right here I want to share a document with you it's called the US Department of Education state regulations of private schools now I did talk a little bit about this in our last video but I wanted too short to you in black and white because I know that the minimum requirements can be unbelievable but I wanted to short to you and this document it was completed in 2009 it was the most up-to-date one that I came across but I think it is pretty much the rules and regulations now it has all of the states I am in Georgia and so that's on page 57 so we're gonna go to page 57 it's a lot really close and I am just gonna go through this a little bit with you as you can see right here where it says accreditation registration licensing and approval what does it say no requirements for accreditation so that's one thing you're gonna have to make a decision about now I told you it is really important that you do become accredited because then it impacts what type of assistance you get from the state but to start a school you can be a private school non-accredited Europe you will not be forced to get accreditation if you don't want to and so as you can see in black and white yourself you do not have to have accreditation there is no requirement for registration no requirement for licensing no requirement for approval and so I know it's kind of unbelievable but you can open up shop and as long as you have your business license and whatever zoning issues are required you have yourself a school let's look at the teacher certification so as you can see right here teacher certification is not required now they do have a cloth here that says however and but this is pertaining to a program with the state that will help to finance certain students education and we'll get into that probably in another video but once again I'm making that point that there are not a lot of really tough regulations that you have to jump through different hoops with let's see length of school days now you do have to have 180 days and that's pretty much what is required in a public school system however you only have to do four and a half hours that's four and a half hours now I do have a four day program but I have also thought about not offering a four-day program to kind of save money or cut down on cost but I haven't done that but it's option so I wanted you guys just to kind of really know curriculum there is no particular curriculum that they are going to force you to use the only thing that they ask and here we go right here private schools must provide a basic academic educational program that includes reading language arts mathematics social studies and science so as long as you're teaching those things they're not gonna tell you what curriculum that you have to buy that is totally up to you now when I was actually looking at this document again I came across this and I really I need to investigate more because I really don't know what it means but it says the Georgia Department of technical and adult education is authorized to contract with private schools to provide program or services deem necessary so that sounds like I could be getting some type of program or I guess offering some type of program that maybe is associated with that department I'm so glad that I went back and I really read through this because I didn't matter of fact that I didn't have this when I first started my school I told you I stumbled upon all of this but that's real interesting to me and so I think I am gonna definitely go back and find out what that is so as we move on and we go to record-keeping and reports of course your pride as a private school you must report your enrollment to the local school district and there's some guidelines on when to do that and how often and so forth but that makes it right because at a certain age you're required to go to school and if you're not in the public schools then the schools don't know that the child is being educated so there is some type of communication not difficult most of the public schools already have some type of form that you that they want you to use to report that information on let's see health and safety let's see private schools builders must meet meet all health and safety standards establish under state law and let a local ordinances so once again you kind of have to go and see what that is for your particular state but I think that's pretty much with you know with any business right that you want to make sure wherever you're holding your place of business that it is one safe and then it is accessible for all let's see then it talks about a little bit about transportation which is really no big deal [Music] textbooks there is no state policy at this time so once again they're not going to tell you what textbooks to use if you use textbooks at all testing there is not a requirement for tested however once again if you are going to you know receive if your state have different funding for certain students then they more they may require some type of testing but it's still not generally the state test and you get to choose that and I do give a test and it's more of a functional test to kind of really want to see where our students are functionally as it puts as it pertains to how they will operate in the world because we are more remedial school than anything else because I have the hope that most of my students will transition back to public schools and for those students who don't it's because they're probably a little bit further behind academically and or that their deficits are a lot harder to remediate and that you know they may never reach certain levels so in doing that I always my goal is to always get them to a point where they can function in the world so I want to test that will let me know like how well is the student reading the newspaper how well is a student I'm comprehending and is able to write you know basic paragraphs and all of that good stuff alright so I don't want to belabor at that point we talked about testing special education and then this just goes on to say how some of the schools can work with private schools to provide students with an education and so forth let's see nursing and health there's no state policy technology there no state policy professional development there's no state policy reimbursement for performing state like local functions no policy tax exemption you would still be under the same educational tax exempt so those things that you buy for your business that is educational then you don't have to pay tax on it and then an excellent just talks about the public aid for private education which says that Georgia's Constitution prohibits public funds from flowing into religious organizations however there is another law I don't want to say it supersedes that but there's another program that don't discriminate against religious schools you can be a religious school and provide certain services and still get some state funding let's see then programs for financial assistance and I will talk a little bit more about those things probably in another video and then it goes into like the regulations for homeschooling and then that's all like really easy peasy right nothing too difficult whatsoever now I told you that I wanted to talk to you about private non accredited which we just went over now if you just did the minimum on the in this document for your state that means you have a private school that is not accredited but we want you to take that extra step to get accredited right right why because it will impact certainly financial resources and just really your reputation like you want your parents to be able to trust that the program that you develop is meeting requirements that their student is gonna grow and so forth right just got interrupted let's continue love the kids right okay so I did a quick google search and I wanted it to be specific to the state of Georgia but it's not quite what I got but that's all good basically I did a Google search on accrediting agencies in the state of Georgia and as you can see I got a whole list of things and so when I tell you guys there are tons and tons and tons of I'm not going to say tons of tons but there are lots of accrediting agencies that you can go to become accredited now and decided this you want to make sure that the programs that your state offers to help with certain students that you want to make sure that you are going with one of their approved ones right so you can probably get a list of their approved ones and then go down that list however they are not all equal now in that last video I believe I talked about Sachs and how it is this huge accrediting agencies and they their standards are like we're ridiculous matter of fact I think they they do colleges and so forth - they do the public districts and so forth and I'm I'm not sure if it's nationally but I know is more than just Georgia so obviously I am not at a point where I am a red I'm ready for that type of that type of accrediting agency and so once I did my research I felt like the Georgia accrediting commission was really made for me and it's uh it's a still a pretty big agency here in Georgia I think they focus only in Georgia so that probably makes you know a difference too and then a lot of the private schools that around here actually have their accreditation through them as well so after you choose an accredited agency then we want to go to that accrediting agencies website so here we are right here I am on Georgia accrediting Commission's website and matter-of-fact in doing this for you guys I noticed that we are supposed to develop this plan this crisis plan for the current situation and which I didn't know so now no I'm gonna have to go back and actually download that all right so let's see let's go to member schools first I want to show you guys where we are now my school is specifically designed for kids with special needs or learning disabilities and so I will fall under educational agencies with special purposes but as you can see they accredit private private pre-kindergarten schools private schools non-traditional educational centers although I think there's been some change in that they do public pre-k public schools K through 12 and private pre-kindergarten so I'm gonna go to educational agencies with special purposes this is where we are and if you guys hear noise my daughter she came here she forgot to shut the door but here we are right here trying out transitions and stood - director Cindy Lumpkin cou things that's always oh that's always kind of cool to see let's see [Music] all right Georgia accrediting commission I count all right let me go and close all right so here we go I want to go to let's see GC a standards all right so when you go to your site consultation consultant visitation program so I had to get in consulting and matter of fact if you go here they provide you if you go here they provide you with a list of their consultants and so you would just go down the list it lists their qualifications and what they are prove to give you to do accreditation for and so when I went down this list I promise you I went down reading and praying reading and friends that God would just lead me to the right person that would really work with me and get me over all the humps that I need it without gouging my pockets because they are quite expensive it's like two hundred and fifty dollars an hour if I'm not mistaken but that is a requirement so before you call who or do anything else your first stop is to get a consultant and then they will come out and chitchat with you or whatever before I did all of that though I kind of researched everything so let's see for me I did some of this seems standards for non-traditional so here's the standards for educational agencies with special purposes and then there is standard accreditation procedures for kindergarten I think there was two different lists that I had to go okay here we go so accreditation requirements for all schools so this would protect no matter what school you have or what school you want to have whether it is kindergarten pre-k K through 12 these are two different things that you must have and as you can see they live how many hours per year that you have to do here you start with personnel and then it actually starts really telling you what the requirements are and this is where you're going to see the difference and night and day of the different requirements so a principal our headmaster or manager whatever you the title you give that person in leadership they may serve in such capacity only one school agency or center at the same time so you can't I guess the over multiple ones see whenever the person designated as the principal headmaster or manager of the school leaves the position you got to go and do you got to let them know this is when the school is relocating and all of that good stuff I don't want to go through all of this because it'll just make this drag on but I wanted you guys to get the gist of it because all I did was I went down and read each one of these things and make sure that I was able to satisfy it or I had some type of alternative to what they face it even this is now I will say this this is the part that scared me so much because they say that that you need to show that you're fiscally sound well I didn't know like like how do you do that or what were they expecting and I think they kind of go into details at some point but all I did in the beginning um was did I do I I may have had an audit but that I did have an audit in a budget and and not audit because I wasn't paying myself at the time and then I had a co-worker who actually came out and volunteer well because we were certified teachers then all of the hours that we poured into the organization we were able to put it in our we were able to put it in as if we were charging for what our teacher would get paid and have that one hour on it okay yeah so we were able to log all of those hours that translate it back to money on our tax exemption when our audit amen and so that made it look like I was working with way more money than what I really had I want to say I think I by the time I had the audit done I I did get up to close to maybe like fifteen thousand maybe twenty thousand dollars in my account but the audit showed close to maybe thirty thirty five thousand and that was because I was giving credit for all of those hours that I was logging as a professional teacher as well as my coworker so that's kind of how that was kind of how we kind of beat that up a little bit and then here's the physical planet so as you can see there's just so many different things that you have to have like specifically of safety preparedness plans fire drills monthly you're starting to see some of the same things that public schools require here fire extinguishers and all of that good stuff and so it's like what one through twenty eight just in the physical plant and the and if we go back then so that's for everybody right and then you have to decide where what are you getting accredited for so if it gonna be K through 12 or is it gonna be like me I just see what special purpose is and so once you click here it goes through telling you the different certification levels so accreditation classification you can get preparation status do not settle for that because that's really it's nothing you'll be paying your money but nothing if you're just doing that so you can go from preparation status to provisional all in one meeting if you really have this stuff together you can go from preparation to accredited status in one meeting however I went from here to here in one meeting and then it took me another year to do what I needed to do in order to do the accredited status so and then so right here what does the preparation start is requiring all of this for things then if you're going to do provisional what is the eight more things and then if you do the credited status its eight things and so forth and then here up here all the principles that you are graded on one two one two three four five six seven so I'm gonna close out of this and then I'm gonna turn around okay guys so as you can see completely doable right I know it's like once you get to the accreditation part it feels a little bit more overwhelming but I promise you you get through it take it one number one principle one stand it at a time and you're going to be okay so if you have any specific questions make sure you write them below in addition the upcoming videos are going to be on the curriculum that I chose to use as well as financials or how did I raise money where did that initial those initial funds come from I am gonna go into more detail and I'll probably do two separate videos on that and the money one is probably going to come first because I know that is at the end of the day is what you're gonna need because so at some point you're gonna have to prove that you can be fiscally sound alright guys I hope you enjoyed it it was a little long but hopefully you got tons of information out of it alright bye bye