What does the law say about homeschooling?

Last week, law enforcement officials in Riverside County, California discovered 13 siblings, malnourished and allegedly held captive, living in squalid circumstances in their parents’ home. The father had registered his home as a school and the children were reportedly homeschooled.

“…many states do not require any assessments or have any means of ensuring that children are taught the required courses or even receive meaningful instruction…”

The case raises questions about state oversight of children in alternative schooling and how to identify child endangerment. Public schools can offer a refuge to children in abusive homes—a place where a teacher or nurse might notice that something is wrong. But what about children outside of that public institution?

In this interview, Stanford University’s Bill Koski, professor of clinical education and founding director of the Youth and Education Law Project at Stanford Law School, and Michael Wald, professor of law, discuss the law and homeschooling:

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