Need a little help, ladies & gents! I'm in Texas. A friend wants to pull her kid out of school. He was in one district last year, they moved over the summer, and he'll be in a new district this year. Which district(s) need to be notified?
When I used to work in schools, the school you're leaving would, when you notified them you're moving, get the address you're moving to, and send the records automatically to the receiving school. BUT sometimes the parents didn't know until they got there, so the receiving school would have to write the old school for the records. I'm going to guess the receiving school would be the one to be notified that they're withdrawing??
I was going to write up a letter for her (she'd sign it) going to the old school, stating HS intent, and requesting that records be sent to parents. Now I'm not so sure.
If you haven't registered with your new district, you notify the last school that your child attended and request a withdrawal and copies of records. Your student doesn't need to sign it. They are a minor. You sign it. Look into your state's laws. Here we have to put the student's name, address, DOB, and last grade completed on our withdrawal letter. I would also recommend getting signature required on delivery and requesting that all further communication from the school be in writing. This site has a sample letter for TX. Hope that helps. http://nthen.org/Resources/GettingStarted/tabid/95/Default.aspx
In Texas the law says that you have to give your home district (that would be the district you are moving into) a letter of intent to home school. It just basically needs to say that you intend to home school your children and that they will no longer be attending public school. The requirements for home schooling in Texas is that the parent teaches a curriculum of Reading, Writing/Grammar, Citizenship (basically Texas History) and Math. The parent is allowed to teach more subjects if they want but those are the minimum subjects for home schooling in Texas. Also... for my elementary age kids they just had me write the letter of intent to home school and made a copy for their records. For my daughter (she was in high school when I pulled her out) they said that she has a right to refuse to be home schooled and stay in public school if she wants to and that she also had to sign a form saying that she agreed to be home schooled. I don't know if that is really Texas law for high school age kids or if that school was just trying to be difficult but my daughter didn't want to be in public school anymore and gladly signed their form.
I also live in Texas, and to my knowledge, we are not required to do any notifications to the school system.
I can't say what the laws are about withdrawing the kids...I've never had my children enrolled in public school here, so I didn't have to do that. But I didn't do any sort of notification when we moved here, or since.
Jennifer withdrawing is for sure different then always done...you are right if from the start you homeschool there is nothing to do, but withdrawing is different.
