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Business Level 3 Unit 1 M1

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ELAD521_52 M1 Q1
Hello Everyone! I have been looking forward to learning about educational law for quite some time now and I like the way our syllabus is formatted into categories, which I think will help me build schema. Although I do not have any prior knowledge of New Jersey’s Homeschooling Law, I was very intrigued researching and reading about it. Sadly, I was not surprised by New Jersey’s liberal perspective on homeschooling; however, some states requirements did surprise me. Overall I felt that New Jersey took a cavalier attitude toward children who are being homeschooled and I do not feel it is in the best interest of the child or state to allow such loose guidelines.
To begin with, New Jersey parents do not even need to make anyone …show more content…

does not regulate the number of days or hours, rather it states that children are “given instruction equivalent to that provided in the public schools for children of similar grades and attainments or to receive equivalent instruction elsewhere than at school,” http://www.nj.gov/education/genfo/faq/faq_homeschool.htm . Other states like West Virginia regulate that homeschooled students are educated for 180 days; Ohio mandates 100 hours/year; and Maryland, North Carolina, and Alabama command that education takes place regularly. I was surprised that there are such different requirements from state to state for the amount of schooling that children are required to receive.
The diversity of laws across our nation for homeschooling runs the entire spectrum from little or no regulation, like in New Jersey, to mandatory notification of homeschooling, approval of an individual education plan and corresponding curriculum, and as well as monitoring of student progress. In my view, the liberal perspective of N.J.’s homeschooling law, refutes the title of the law, that education is ‘compulsory’, since we don’t even need to be notified that a student is being homeschooled. That being said, if we don’t know, how can we determine that it is

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