Can you explain this more? I want to home school but I don't know how you can escape the curriculum requirements. I just figured Id have a really limited time educating in a way I see fit.
Home school in many States is a legal term. Like many “common phrases” the general public knows what it means, but has been REDEFINED, via Laws to mean WHAT THEY decide it means. If you never Enroll your child they have no governance over your child. All State laws are different/Independent of other States. So verifying with your State is paramount regarding education.
Once a child is enrolled, the parent is AGREEING to the School, Board, Administration, Counselors, Teachers to have Authority over your child.
Once enrolled, then To simply STOP sending a child to school can have detrimental consequences….Fines, Imprisonment, Removal of the child from the home….and WHY IF a child IS enrolled….and a parent wishes to remove them from the school…UNENROLL them!!! And a heads up, THEY WILL MAKE IT DIFFICULT to “unenroll” them. They will ASK WHY…which is NOT THEIR BUSINESS.. They will not release “official original” school records to a parent. They will ask what “other” school you intend to “enroll” the child, and say they will forward the records there. I have unenrolled before. Never asked for a form. I did have a notarized letter of “unenrollement” and gave to them. Never told them “what” school thereafter I would enroll them in. If a child has attended a school and the parent wants records, Before unenrolling they can…Ask for school record copy’s and offer to pay for the copy’s but insist to get copies. Intent to thereafter “school at home”, NOT their business, even though they may ask IF your intend to “HOME SCHOOL”, if you say Yes, they will use that information in a LEGAL WAY, that you may get a visit from School authorities about their curriculum…
Home School…a legal term.
School at Home…YOUR Business.
I chose the curriculum AND BOOKS, days, hours, etc..
Many Laws have Legalese Jargon, making a common word “Re-Defined” via a Law.
Many parents have run into negative legal consequences for simply stop sending their child to a school instead of Un-enrolling them.