Article 39 115C-547 through 115C-565, which state:
- "Home school means a nonpublic school in which one or more children of not more than two families or households receive academic instruction from parents or legal guardians or a member from either household."
- A home school must meet the following requirements:
a) operate for a nine calendar month school term (doesn't say which months)b) keep attendance records and disease immunization records
c) send a letter of intent to the director of the Division of Non-public Education of their intent to operate and include name and address of the home school, the home school's owner, and the "chief administrator".
d) The home school must also elect to operate under the qualifications of a "private church school or school of religious character"
When my cousin told me she as home schooling her daughter I went into a panic. Are you sure that is something that you want to do? Are you positive that this is the best idea for her. What about social interaction? What about learning things in the "real world?" Then I stepped back and listened to myself and asked her to explain to me why she wanted to home school.
She explained it gave her a chance to spend more quality time with her daughter, and yes it did allow her to control the environment that she was in. After seeing so many shootings, violence and nonsense going on in todays schools I began to see her side more and more. Then when her aunt my other cousin began home schooling her three I truly began to see that home schooling wasn't
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