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Woodland Park creates deadlines
Homeschooling families in the Woodland Park District received a letter from the assistant superintendent, dated September 9, 2005, stating that the Intent to Home School Form was to be returned to the district offices no later than September 30. The letter added that if the district did not receive the necessary paperwork by the stated deadline, it would have “no other option than to file noncompliance with the courts.”
These mandates from the district were unnecessary and unenforceable by law. Colorado statutes only impose one deadline on homeschoolers: parents must submit the letter of intent 14 days prior to the establishment of the homeschool program.
Home School Legal Defense Association Senior Counsel Christopher Klicka responded in a letter to the assistant superintendent, explaining that the district’s requirements were incorrect and that HSLDA had advised our member families not to comply. HSLDA has not heard from Woodland Park since.
— by Christopher J. Klicka
