Legal / Legislative Updates

Problems continue

Families across the Green Mountain State have run into unpleasant surprises and needless frustration in dealing with Vermont Department of Education staff, who review every “enrollment notice” to see whether it complies with state law. These problems do not arise because the new personnel at the Home Study Office are hostile to homeschooling; on the contrary, they seem to be genuinely friendly to home educators. Unfortunately, the new staff is trying to apply an old law to an ever increasing number of families.

It is well past time that Vermont updated its homeschool statute. We urge every Home School Legal Defense Association member family in Vermont to contact their own legislators to ask whether they would favor improving Vermont’s homeschool law. Explain that it was adopted almost 20 years ago, and that the number of homeschoolers has grown enormously since the late 1980s. With your help, Vermont’s homeschool law may soon get better.