Getting Started
With Homeschooling

Family Association for Instruction and Teaching at Home

(This page updated July 8, 2000)

Getting Started
in Arkansas and Oklahoma

Arkansas law requires filing of an intent form and a waiver (available from your local school superintendent) and periodic testing (currently 5th, 7th, and 10th grades).

Effective July 1, 1999, homeschoolers in Arkansas must file their intent form and waiver by August 15th of each school year.

Parents desiring to start homeschooling the second semester must file their intent form and waiver by December 15th.

Arkansas parents desiring to enroll their child in a home school during the semester must submit a notice of intent and waiver form to their superintendent and wait 14 calendar days before beginning to home school.
Parents with children under disciplinary action in a public school may not begin home schooling until: this action has been completed, the suprintendent allows them to leave, the semester ends, or the student is expelled. They also have to wait 14 calendar days before taking their child out of school.

Parents who refuse to test their child in accordance with the law may be charged with truancy.

The right to homeschool is guaranteed by the Constitution of Oklahoma.

For a summary of homeschooling laws for your state, contact the
Home School Legal Defense Association.

AS YOU BEGIN PLANNING FOR YOUR HOMESCHOOLING EXPERIENCE:

* Prepare yourself by seeking guidance,
first from the One who has blessed you with children,
then from those who are homeschooling "experts" as a result
of their own homeschooling experience.

* Read homeschool materials.
Start with the links provided on our
How-To and Lots of Links pages.

* Join your local homeschooling support group.
Attend their functions and talk to veteran homeschoolers.

For a F.A.I.T.H. membership form, go here.
To find a support group in your state, go here.

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