How Should We Regulate Homeschooling?

WAMU 88.5

Published January 2, 2020 at 11:06 AM EST

A school bus is seen during a safety event for children at Trailside Middle School, in Ashburn, Virginia.

People choose to homeschool their children for a variety of reasons. Maybe they want their child to focus on a certain part of the curriculum. Maybe their child has special needs. Maybe their child has a hard time learning in a classroom environment.

But whatever the reason, there are still guidelines for how a child can be homeschooled.

But who gets to decide what those regulations are? And how are they enforced?

This is the first in a series of shows pitched and selected by you, our listeners. We’ll be spotlighting them all through January.

Produced by Avery J.C. Kleinman

GUESTS

Jerusha Lofland, 1A listener; @ICT_Pinup

Brian Ray, President, National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI); @nheri2010

Samantha Field, Policy advocate, Coalition for Responsible Home Education; @samanthapfield

For more, visit https://the1a.org.