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Home Schooling Requirements And State Law And Rules

Learning about the home schooling requirements and your state laws is probably the first steps a new homeschooler should take. They should exactly what the legal rules are for homeschooling in their states.

The first common mistake is probably be to call the local school district for information. Although school administrators are normally quite familiar with the laws affecting public schools, they are often ill informed, or even misinformed, about those regarding private schools and home schooling requirements. A few will not hesitate to tell you what the applicable rules are, even when they actually know nothing about them.

School officials today, like the pubic in general, are far better informed about homeschooling today than they were a decade ago, but many still take homeschooling inquiries as personal and will not go out of their way to be helpful.

Where then, should you look for accurate and complete information about home schooling requirements? Unfortunately, there is probably no good single source. Your best bet for reliable information is a combination of sources:

1. Read the law for yourself. Check with your local public or college library for a copy of the state education code. There will usually be several volumes, with subject indexes, annotations of court decisions affecting their interpretation a implementation, and pocket parts to keep everything current. You may have to hunt a bit to find the applicable sections.

2. Talk to any friends or acquaintances who are homeschoolers. Ask them what they know of the legal requirements for homeschooling and where they got their information.

3. Contact state and local homeschooling groups for legal information. Most groups produce some sort of beginner's packet that outlines the basic rules for your state law and gives suggestions for getting along with the law. Most will say they do not give legal advice and recommend that you contact a lawyer if you have doubts or questions, but support group information tends to be fairly reliable, because it is based on their members' personal experience. In general, because they are directly affected by regulations, homeschoolers are far more motivated to become knowledgeable about applicable regulations than are school officials.

Homeschoolers have a vested interest in getting it right, and even in making sure other homeschoolers get it right, because families that have legal trouble can have adverse effects on the local climate for homeschooling. If there are several state homeschooling organizations in your state, it might even be worthwhile getting information from all of them, to see how closely they agree about the legal situation. Some groups may promote a particular method as the only means of complying with the law, even when there are several options to choose from, or may suggest a particularly fear based approach, even recommending that you avoid letting your children outside during school hours or refrain from telling people you are homeschooling.

4. Ask your local or state education agency what the rules for homeschooling are. Even though this is not usually the best first choice for homeschooling information, it's worth knowing the official public educators' perspective. The kind of response you get will depend on the laws of your state and the views of the officials charged with answering such inquiries. States friendlier to homeschooling, such as Washington, may provide perfectly good information; others may provide their opinion of what the law ought to be instead of what it actually is. Without contact with other homeschoolers in your state, evaluating the "official" version of the facts can be difficult.

You probably won't get a black and white home schooling requirements answer to your homeschooling state law legal questions.

But you will get a good idea of your state's homeschooling climate and how other homeschoolers live within those rules. In many states, the home schooling requirements are ambiguous at best, but by gathering as much information as you can from a variety of sources, you'll get as close as any of us can to learning exactly what the laws are in your state.

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