Each state has its own requirements.

I'm not familiar with Louisiana's. I am somewhat familiar with Texas' requirements (as I've known numerous homeschooling families) and they are quite loose.

We have no requirement for the parents to be certified as teachers. (Given what I've seen on the OT about some teachers, it appears the only requirement is to be good in bed.)

And, the only notification to a school district is that, if the student is enrolled, the district is simply given a letter of the parents' withdrawal of said student from the district. (NOTE: One of the biggest issues is that the district will try to make the parents comply with other policies (such as providing planned cirriculum) that are not required by law.) If the parents' plan to home school from Day 1, then no notification is required ever.

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Posted by conservativewifeymom

Mid Atlantic

Member since Oct 2012

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Posted on 10/17/14 at 3:05 pm to Quidam65

Texas IS known as one of the most lax states in terms of homeschool reporting requirements. There is a spectrum of reporting requirements and Texas is at one end while other states such as New York, Pennsylvania, etc. are at the other end. My own state (Maryland) is considered to be somewhere in the middle and that's just fine with me. In PA a homeschooling family's portfolio has to be verified by a certified teacher, among other very strict requirements. Of course, human ingenuity being what it is, there are ways to get around these requirements (such as getting your best friend Betty who just happens to be a teacher to summarily sign off on your work). In all honesty, most of these reporting requirements, no matter how draconian, are just bureaucratic hoops through which families have to jump for very little good reason.

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