Homeschooling policy regarding age?

Question

I know that regarding schooling plans there are are no set standards, only guidelines, but my question about policy is this:

In the national United States (or statewide, or other) policy, is it true that for a student aged 16 years or older, one does not need to submit a report to the local School Board? Or must one continue to report classing, grading and the like until student's schooling is completely finished?

Answer 1

In uk you need to submit a report each year for the progress of your child

Answer 2

Hmm, I imagine you'd only need to submit reports etc if your particular state requires it and only until you reach the legal school-leaving age. once you're old enough to legally leave school (be that 15, 16, 18 or whatever), I'd imagine the submission of reports etc would be voluntary. I don't see how they can demand it when the law says you no longer have to be participating in anything educational if you don't want to (let alone have to prove it to anyone, school board or otherwise).

I'm neither in the US, nor required to submit anything that involved to the school board/authorities who regulate home education. I am home educated though: 15yrs old, one of 9 home educated siblings, been home educated all my life.

Answer 3

Every state in the United states has different laws regarding homeschooling, so there is no one answer to your question.  Some states to have compulsory attendance until 18, so in those states you need to file or whatever else they require until age 18.

Withdrawing for homeschooling is NOT the same as dropping out, anymore than withdrawing to move or withdrawing to enroll in private school is dropping out, they can't force you to take the GED just because you choose a different way of receiving your education.

Go to http://www.hslda.org/hs/state/default.as... to find out the different laws for different states.

Go to http://www.hslda.org/highschool/default.... and  click on all the different links that take you to information about homeschool diplomas vs. GEDs, college admissions, employment, etc.

Answer 4

In the US, each state has their own attendance policy. Some require until 16; others require until 17 (I think a few may even require to 18, unless the diploma has been obtained).

Regardless, to be considered a homeschooled student, you need to file whatever the state requires you to file--if the state requires you to file anything. If the state requires some sort of filing or testing or whatever and you are legally allowed to "drop out" at 16 and you don't file/test/etc., then you would be considered a school drop-out, not a homeschooler.

No, not all homeschooling leads to a GED. Many parents provide their own diplomas to their homeschooled children. And I've never heard of any state sending a certificate of graduation, although with at least one or two, I believe you can obtain a state-accredited high school diploma (typically, the diplomas issued by homeschooling parents are the equivalent to a private school's non-state-accredited diploma).

ADDED: Most states don't require you to have anything to do with the local school board when it comes to homeschooling. Most also don't require the submission of grades, from what I understand.