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Counting Out the School Days
ОглавлениеJust how long is a school year, anyway? Good question. And the answer (surprise!) varies based on your state of residence. Your state may call a school year 148 days, such as in Iowa, 186 days, such as in Kansas, or somewhere in between. Most of the states hover right around 180 days.
Or you may live in a state such as Ohio, which counts hours of instruction instead of days. That makes life interesting. Where would you be without your handy calculator?
If you look at your state’s attendance requirement and your head starts to spin, do not pass Go and do not collect $200. Turn directly to Appendix B and locate a homeschool organization for your state. Talk to someone from your state homeschool association and find out how home educators in your state manage the requirements in real life.
Table 3-1 in this chapter has a rundown of all the states and the required teaching days (or hours) required per year. Where you see None, no particular days are specified, but the state may have other regulations that you need to meet. Combining N with a number, as in N/180, means that your state offers a couple different homeschooling legal options. One option has no particular attendance requirement, but under the other alternative, you need to teach so many days.
These attendance requirements are current as of this book’s printing. Your best bet is to locate a copy of your state law and ensure that the attendance rules remain the same — if you find it changes, feel free to alter the requirement in the book. I won’t know, but you will, and that’s what counts.
TABLE 3-1 Homeschool Attendance Requirements by State
State | Requirement per Year | State | Requirement per Year |
Alabama | None | Montana | 720 hrs grades 1–3 1,080 hrs grades 4–12 |
Alaska | None | Nebraska | 1,032 hrs elementary 1,080 hrs high school |
Arizona | None | Nevada | None |
Arkansas | None | New Hampshire | None |
California | N/175 days | New Jersey | None |
Colorado | N/172 days | New Mexico | 180 days |
Connecticut | None | New York | 180 days |
Delaware | None | North Carolina | Nine months |
District of Columbia | Same as schools | North Dakota | 175 days |
Florida | None | Ohio | 900 hrs |
Georgia | 180 days | Oklahoma | 180 days |
Hawaii | None | Oregon | None |
Idaho | None | Pennsylvania | 180 days |
Illinois | None | Rhode Island | Same as schools |
Indiana | 180 days | South Carolina | 180 days |
Iowa | N/148 days | South Dakota | Same as schools |
Kansas | 186 days | Tennessee | 180 days |
Kentucky | 185 days | Texas | None |
Louisiana | 180 days | Utah | None |
Maine | 175 days | Vermont | None |
Maryland | None | Virginia | N/180 days |
Massachusetts | 900 hrs elementary 990 hrs secondary/180 days | Washington | 180 days |
Michigan | None | West Virginia | 180 days |
Minnesota | None | Wisconsin | 875 hrs |
Mississippi | None | Wyoming | None |
Missouri | 1,000 hrs |