“We home schooled in VA just by signing some papers saying we would, and stating our qualifications (all you need is undergrad degree) to teach. We didn’t have to give any reason.”
In VA, all you need now is a HS Diploma. (The law changed in the last year or so.) The religious exemption route allows eligible families to file their notice of intent just once (vice filing every year), and they’re exempt from the annual testing requirements. HSLDA has a good summary of the current law.
hahha, by the good Grace of God, we are well beyond homeschooling now !!!!! But God bless Mike Farris for getting that law through at all.
The restrictions in our day were not onerous at all. The only problem was that the kids couldn’t participate in anything extra-curricular at the local schools. We were more than willing to live with that. The exclusion of home schooled kids will end when a local school finds it’s got a home-schooled Tebow living in their district.