Trust homeschooling parents to do what the law already allows

New York’s homeschooling regulation is built on a simple premise: Parents have a legal right to provide instruction at home, and school districts review the required paperwork to verify that such instruction is substantially equivalent.

This structured balance found in 8 NYCRR § 100.10 is disrupted when a school district decides that parents, as a category, cannot be trusted to administer annual assessments or prepare written narrative evaluations for their own children because they are related to them.