The entire school thing will be taken care of after Trump gets back in and the deep state is hanging.
Trump will sign a school choice executive order that will let the money follow the child, and then suddenly public schools will need to get their act together (ASAP) or they will become obsolete.
If you want to know the biggest fight you have dis-enrolling your child from public education? The MONEY. The school systems didn't care one whit about the child... they were seeing $10,000 per child in education funding walking out the door. That was the concern.
For the first 2-3 weeks, the schools were threatening to have child protective services or some state official come by the home to make sure the child was being "home schooled". They never followed through... however you must be prepared for that. Home school means HOME SCHOOL. You start at a certain time each day, and have lesson plans that you follow.
The state can't tell you WHEN you have to teach math, or language arts. They can't tell you how many hours per day have to be spent on each, nor what order things have to be taught. All they can do is make sure that your lessons follow the basic state curriculum for that grade level (that your kids aren't falling behind). That's easy. Print off a copy of the state curriculum guidelines for that grade level... and make sure your kids are at least meeting if not exceeding those. Most of the time, we were months ahead or were even teaching at the next grade level up.
My daughters passed the 10th, 11th &12th grade state spelling exams by 9th grade. Public education is so slow and dumbed down... that it's not hard for home schooled kids to be months or even years ahead of their peers.
The important thing is to KEEP RECORDS OF EVERYTHING. Keep every homework assignment. Keep every quiz. Keep every test. Occasionally, print off a State home school test and have the child pass that. Most states have those online. If the child reads a novel (which we required several, at least 2 per school year), then record that and have them write a novel report.
If ANY state agency ever tries to intervene (and it's always possible), you need to have the information readily available showing that your children are receiving an education equal to or better than public. Another thing is take photos (and keep a digital file) as well as making a copy of everything to be kept elsewhere (not at the home). Anticipate that you might have problems with officials. We never did... but you never know what a vindictive school system might pull... or some crooked local politician might try. Always be prepared.
If you go this route, write down (and have handy) contact information for your state or city's home school organizations and any legal agencies that represent home schoolers in your state. It never hurts to have those phone #'s or names available just in case.
The entire school thing will be taken care of after Trump gets back in and the deep state is hanging.
Trump will sign a school choice executive order that will let the money follow the child, and then suddenly public schools will need to get their act together (ASAP) or they will become obsolete.
I hope so.
If you want to know the biggest fight you have dis-enrolling your child from public education? The MONEY. The school systems didn't care one whit about the child... they were seeing $10,000 per child in education funding walking out the door. That was the concern.
For the first 2-3 weeks, the schools were threatening to have child protective services or some state official come by the home to make sure the child was being "home schooled". They never followed through... however you must be prepared for that. Home school means HOME SCHOOL. You start at a certain time each day, and have lesson plans that you follow.
The state can't tell you WHEN you have to teach math, or language arts. They can't tell you how many hours per day have to be spent on each, nor what order things have to be taught. All they can do is make sure that your lessons follow the basic state curriculum for that grade level (that your kids aren't falling behind). That's easy. Print off a copy of the state curriculum guidelines for that grade level... and make sure your kids are at least meeting if not exceeding those. Most of the time, we were months ahead or were even teaching at the next grade level up.
My daughters passed the 10th, 11th &12th grade state spelling exams by 9th grade. Public education is so slow and dumbed down... that it's not hard for home schooled kids to be months or even years ahead of their peers.
The important thing is to KEEP RECORDS OF EVERYTHING. Keep every homework assignment. Keep every quiz. Keep every test. Occasionally, print off a State home school test and have the child pass that. Most states have those online. If the child reads a novel (which we required several, at least 2 per school year), then record that and have them write a novel report.
If ANY state agency ever tries to intervene (and it's always possible), you need to have the information readily available showing that your children are receiving an education equal to or better than public. Another thing is take photos (and keep a digital file) as well as making a copy of everything to be kept elsewhere (not at the home). Anticipate that you might have problems with officials. We never did... but you never know what a vindictive school system might pull... or some crooked local politician might try. Always be prepared.
If you go this route, write down (and have handy) contact information for your state or city's home school organizations and any legal agencies that represent home schoolers in your state. It never hurts to have those phone #'s or names available just in case.