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Instruction

Home Schooling

Procedures Concerning Requests from Parents to Educate Their Child at Home

Statutory Authority

Section 10-184 of the Connecticut General Statutes describes the duties of parents for educating their children. It requires that parents or persons having control of children over seven years of age and under sixteen years of age shall cause such children “…to attend a public day school regularly…” However, Section 10-184 also allows the parent or person having control of such child to educate the child in other than the public schools if they are “…able to show that the child is elsewhere receiving equivalent instruction in the studies taught in the public schools.”

Parents wishing to educate their child in their home should comply with the following procedures to satisfy the statutory requirements for home instruction:

1. Parents shall file with the Superintendent of Schools a Notice of Intent to Home School. A Notice of Intent will be effective for up to one school year.

2. Filing of a Notice of Intent must occur within ten days of the start of the home instructional program.

3. A parent, by filing a Notice of Intent, acknowledges full responsibility for the education of their child in accordance with the requirements of state law. Receipt of a Notice of Intent in no way constitutes approval by the school district of the content or effectiveness of a problem of home instruction.

Any student being home schooled is ineligible to participate in any courses, programs or activities offered to students enrolled in the East Haddam Public Schools. The East Haddam Public School System will provide only such services as are required by law. Among those programs, services, and activities which will not be available to home schooled children include: participation in the National Honor Society, extra-curricular activities such as band, interscholastic and intra-scholastic athletic teams, field trips, and foreign language instruction.

Legal Reference: Connecticut General Statutes

10-184 Duties of parents.

10-220 Duties of boards of education.

Policy adopted: September 14, 2004 EAST HADDAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Moodus, Connecticut