Very interesting. I've always thought the "equivalent to public education" concept was insane, since the courts have ruled that school districts have no obligation to see that any individual child is educated - only to provide "schooling," i.e., wareshousing, to all resident children.
North Carolina requires an annual registration, postcard-size, and that homeschools keep attendance and immunization records, and complete an annual standardized test (any test in general use in the country). The DPNE tries to get us to mail in the records and test results, but we don't have to. We just have to have them available if any of the half-dozen homeschool inspectors in the state happens to draw our card from the bin :-).
“Very interesting. I’ve always thought the ‘equivalent to public education’ concept was insane, since the courts have ruled that school districts have no obligation to see that any individual child is educated - only to provide ‘schooling,’ i.e., wareshousing, to all resident children.”
I don’t know - looks like the ideal loophole to me. It takes very, very little to teach a child sufficiently to score near the median of the public school population.
“Equivalent to public education” is an extraordinarily low standard, especially if measured by actual outcomes. You could almost sit a kid in front of a TV for six hours a day and get those sorts of results.
“Your honor, I admit that my child isn’t the best student, nor the brightest bulb in the box, but he easily scores within one standard deviation of the norm of his public school peers.”
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