Organizations positioning themselves as homeschool representatives and persons of authority and trust recently began feverishly posting the battle cry “get your enrollment documents in order” to the homeschooling community. This call was in response to the “ missing children ” articles and calls from the Alabama Education Association for “re-regulation.”

But there is no such requirement for students enrolled in a non-public school education program such as homeschooling to register with anyone at any time. As SB38 states :

Nonpublic schools, including private, church, parochial, and religious schools, offering educational instruction in grades K–12, as well as home-schooled students, are not subject to licensure or regulation by the state or any political subdivision of the state, in

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