159948~Home school students must comply—Dear Editor,
The following is a response to a recent column regarding home
schooling:
Interestingly, there is no exemption in the California Education
Code for
”
home schools.
”
In other words, education code does not recognize the term
”
home school
”
and therefore does not exempt students from compulsory
attendance if they are, in layperson’s terms, being home
schooled.
The law says private schools must keep attendance. The law doesn’t say any branch of the government has any power to approve the existance of a private school. Once parents have created a private school they are legally obligated to keep attendence. A private school doesn’t have to ask anyone for permission to keep attendance. Legally no one in the government can ask to see the attendance records, all they can do is ask if the attendance records were kept.
This has been held up time and again in court.
