School District Reports Homeschoolers for Child Neglect

School District Reports Homeschoolers for Child Neglect

In February, an official with Chatham County Schools contacted a Home School Legal Defense Association member family and requested that they provide documentation proving that they were operating a home school. After the family contacted HSLDA for assistance, Senior Counsel Dewitt Black wrote a letter to the school official and informed him that the parents were conducting a home school for their children, that they had provided notice of their intent to operate a home school to the North Carolina Division of Non-Public Education, and that state law does not require the family to provide any documentation in this regard to local public school officials.