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West Virginia
Raleigh County Policy Falls Short
Some features of a new Raleigh County Schools policy venture beyond legal authority.
It requires parents operating under exemption B(a) to have a school day the same length as the public schools, which the law does not require.
It requires standardized testing for families operating under B(a). While West Virginia Code section 18-8-1.B(a) permits the county board to require the family to furnish “information and records” concerning the “attendance, instruction and progress of pupils,” it does not authorize the county to require that a standardized test be administered. The policy ought to be modified so as to allow additional alternatives for showing student progress.
It attempts to impose these same two requirements on those families who operate under exemption B(b) and use a “correspondence course.” If a family is in compliance with the other requirements for B(b), the law does not authorize additional requirements simply because the family uses a correspondence course. The policy does not define “correspondence course.”
The Raleigh County Home School Coordinator has been receptive to the concerns of home school families in the past, and we hope that these issues will be resolved so that the rights of all home school families are protected. Our special thanks to John Carey of Christian Home Educators of West Virginia who has had several discussions with the home school coordinator on this subject.— Scott A. Woodruff
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