I know someone who use to home school her two boys the state she was in had a program to where everything was?

Question

free they gave her a brand new computer and everything when she wanted to relocate to another state she found that she could not take that stuff with her they told her she would have to register in her new state this was the end of October she has been in her new state since around the second week in November and these boys have had no schooling since she has not enrolled them in the public school system nor has she been home schooling them because the home schooling program in her new state cost $1500.00 each she'll go over some math and reading with them but nothing is documented as them being home schooled I guess my question is can she get into trouble for not sending her boys to school or neither home schooling them properly

Answer 1

That depends on what state she moved to.  The state that I live in does not require homeschool families to register or test in any way.  

And honestly, how do you know that she's not "homeschooling them properly"?  Homeschooling does not have to be done through the state to be done "properly".  She needs to be teaching them, but not according to the public school scope and sequence.  I don't, and my 10 year old writes on a 9th-11th grade level and can do the math work from the local 9th-10th grade public school.  

I'm not trying to brag, just saying that you don't have to homeschool according to the public school calendar in order for your kids to learn.  She could be doing just fine.  I don't spend any more than about $300 per year to homeschool mine (there's no way we could do $1500) - and most of that is on math and science texts, the rest is from the library and online.  It is fully possible to homeschool without the state's help.

Answer 2

The easiest way to get in trouble is by breaking the law.  Depending on what state she's in, the law probably requires some kind of registration, and if she hasn't complied, then she could get in trouble.

But you knew that, of course.  With certain beuracracies, paperwork is 90% of the law, and this is one of those cases.

Answer 3

Depends on the state.  Only a few states heavily regulate.

Answer 4

Check out this website: http://www.hslda.org/laws/

Some states don't require registration which i think is stupid.

But yes, she can get in trouble depends on the State.

I know the state I homeschooled my son in has low regulations, we had to register with the Dept of ED and we can choose to do it with state assistance-or rather follow their curriculum. I chose not to because that was the reason for homeschooling-teaching my son what I thought was proper, not what the state deemed proper.

Depends on their age too. I homeschooled him for 2nd and 3rd. He went back for 4th and got straight A's. But i hated the public school system. So i pulled him out again.

My son did his 5th grade work on his own. I was very lax with it. I told him it was his responsiblity. I would only make him read books. So he really didn't do much schooling. He only finished his math and latin workbooks. I made him return to school because i was tired of fighting with him to get on his work.

He went back to 6th grade and does great.

I think Reading is key.

So if your friends kids at least read, then they are doing some schooling, plus everyday situations are valuable in learning. I think homeschool kids usually end up smarter, depends on the parenting too.

Answer 5

as I sympathize with her as I also home-school my 2 sons and use a computer curriculum, it is Switched on Schoolhouse, and it is about $350 a year for the software , the best part is next year I will not have to get both as the younger can reuse the first one I got for the older, which is good because the older is in high school now and that dose cost more for the electives, it all balances out in the end

my solution is as all have said depending on what state you are in, (I am in FL) to try and get  the cheapest and still a good curriculum, if she has a computer at all this is one of the cheapest, if not there is A.C.E and it is pace books,

both are easy to find in a search with there name and home-school