As I mentioned in the above section, part of the main aspects of getting approved to homeschool your children is in the creation of your education plan or proposal. In it, you need to prove that you are ready, willing, and capable of teaching your own children. This section is going teach you how to create your education plan. Here are some of the statutes regarding these plans:
Compulsory Attendance Statute
In many states, there is no statute that specifically governs homeschooling. However, many of them have upheld the compulsory attendance statute which states that every child between the minimum and maximum ages that have been established for school attendance by the board of education is obligated to attend a public day school in their town, or some other day school that is approved by the school committee.
However, it also states that such attendance shall not be required of a child who is being otherwise taught in a manner that is approved in advance by the superintendent or the school committee.
Ages for School Attendance
The minimum age that has been established for compulsory school attendance is six, whereas the maximum age is 16. Each child must attend school beginning in September of the calendar year once he or she reaches the age of six.
Approval of homeschooling plans
The court has decided that while parents have a basic right in directing the education of their children, however; this kind of right is not really absolute but has to be reconciled with the substantial State interest in the education of its smallest citizens.
It is therefore necessary that the school committee seek to enforce, through the approval process under, certain reasonable educational requirements be similar to those required for public and private schools.
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