2020                    8440

Instruction

 

SUBJECT:  HOME INSTRUCTION (HOME SCHOOLING)

The District will attempt to cooperate with parents who wish to provide home instruction for their children. A child who is educated at home should receive an education in a manner consistent with an educational plan and at least substantially equivalent to that given to students of like age and attainments in the local public schools. The required subjects should be taught in a competent, systematic, and sequential manner, specifically in relation to the required courses set forth in Commissioner’s regulation Section 100.10.

Primary responsibility for determining compliance with Commissioner’s regulations addressing home instruction rests with the Superintendent.

Provision of Services to Home-Instructed Students

Home-instructed students are not awarded a high school diploma. A high school diploma may only be awarded to a student enrolled in a registered secondary school who has completed all program requirements set by the Board of Regents or the District.

a) Extracurricular Participation

Students instructed at home are not eligible to participate in interscholastic or intramural sports. Commissioner’s regulations mandate that only students enrolled in the public school are allowed to participate in interscholastic or intramural sports. Further, the District does not permit home-instructed students to participate in any extracurricular activities.

b) Textbooks and Materials

The District is not required to loan available textbooks and other materials (e.g., library materials, microscopes, computer software, eTextbooks, and movie projectors) to home-instructed students. However, the District will provide home-instructed students with textbooks and materials.

c) Health Services

The District is not required to furnish health services.

d) Remedial Programs

The District is not responsible for providing remedial programs.

e) Career and Technical/Gifted Education

The District is not authorized to provide Career and Technical (Occupational) or gifted educational programs to home-instructed students.

f) Special Education Services

Solely for the purpose of Education Law Section 3602-c, home-instructed students with disabilities are deemed to be students enrolled in and attending a nonpublic school, which enables them to receive special education services, as well as to be included for computation of state aid for the education by the District.

The Committee on Special Education will develop an Individualized Education Services Program (IESP) for the student. The IESP will be developed in the same manner and with the same content as an individualized education program. The Board will determine a location where special education services will be provided to a home-instructed student. This location may, but is not required to be, in the student’s home.

g) Use of School Facilities

Students instructed at home will not be allowed to use school facilities, except as provided for community organizations in Policy #3280 — Use of School Facilities, Materials, and Equipment.

 

• Education Law §§ 3204, 3205, 3210(2), 3212(2), 3240-42, 3602-c, 3602-c(2-c), and 4402
• 8 NYCRR §§ 100.10, 135.4(c)(7)(ii)(b)(2) and 200.2(a)

Adopted:  8/24/11
Revised:  9/22/20