To homeschool your child in South Dakota, a form requesting exemption from public school attendance must be completed and parents must test their child in second, fourth, 8th and 11th grade. School districts review the exemption form, keep test score records, and loan textbooks without charge to student ages five through 19."
This is still wayyyy too much regulation.
SD freedom lovers should fight to have these burdensome restrictions lifted.
Generally any public school books must pass the approval of California educators before publishers would bother printing and selling it. What good would a book approved by Kookifornia do other than maybe balancing an uneven table?
I think South Dakota should pass a law that requires parents to pull their kids out of public school and home school them if the kids don't get good scores on the state tests.
Shalom.
"This is still wayyyy too much regulation."
Agreed, but it's better than NY, ND, VT, PA, RI, and MA that highly regulate (translated: harass) home educators.