Notice of intent in Tennessee?
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:10 pm
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!
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!