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Mandi · User Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 2

I'd really appreciate some words of wisdom here! Please bear with me this may be long. I'm in Tennessee and have chosen option 3 (my home will be considered a satellite campus of a church related school.) So under Tennesse law, we are not considered homeschoolers, but private school students.

Here is my situation:
Our state deadline for a homeschool registration is August 1 IF (and ONLY IF ) you are registering with the state which we are not.

To make sure they were not expecting my children on the first day of school, I submitted a letter to the public school principal on July 24, stating that effective immediately my children were being transferred to another school and I included our crs's name. 9 days after public school started, my crs requested my children's transcripts. It was then that I found out that the principal never turned my letter in to the records department. They had been counting my children absent. I told the records clerk that I submitted a letter to the principal and she told me that the letter did not mean anything, they could not change a child's enrollment status just on a parent's request. There IS NO registration deadline in Tennessee if you choose option 3. I simply sent the letter so my children would not be counted absent. I have read the law backwards and forwards and cannot find anything that specifically addresses this. I'd really appreciate your help!

seekingmyLord · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 5:48 pm Post subject:

It appears to me that the CRS should be the one to handle it.

Here is some info I got at http://tnhomeed.com/CRSHS.html

Theodore · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 11:46 pm Post subject:

It's always a good idea to keep evidence that you've delivered your withdrawl. Sometimes the withdrawl mysteriously disappears.
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Mandi · User Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 2

Thanks for your input. The school did find my letter. The principal had it in his office, he just never botherd to give it to the records clerk! I contacted my crs and they assured me I did nothing wrong. They told me to have the school contact them if they have any questions.

seekingmyLord · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 6:37 am Post subject:

I am so glad! Thank you for letting us know. I like to keep track of how the homeschool laws work in application in all the states.