Wyoming
Scope and Sequence: Not Required
This year Laramie County School District Number One sent a letter to home schoolers requesting a scope and sequence or a “a listing by subject of the concepts, skills, and objectives” of the home-based educational program. However, veteran Wyoming home schoolers know that the law simply requires the home educator to submit a “curriculum” to the local board of trustees. That term is defined as follows:
“Basic academic education program is one that provides a sequentially progressive curriculum of fundamental instruction in reading, writing, mathematics, civics, history, literature and science.” Wyoming Statutes § 21-4-101(a)(vi).
It is Home School Legal Defense Association’s opinion that Wyoming statutes do not require submission of a detailed educational plan. Parents are required to demonstrate that they are providing a home-based educational program—which means a program of educational instruction provided to a child by the child’s parents and which provides a sequentially progressive curriculum of fundamental instruction in the required subjects.
Our position is that if the family provides a list of textbooks and publisher, they are demonstrating a curriculum for the required subjects and are in compliance with the state statute. By definition, textbooks and source materials are sequential and progressive. The dictionary defines curriculum as a “course of study offered by an educational institution.” A course of study is satisfied by the disclosure of the subjects and textbooks or source material to be used for instruction.
HSLDA believes that the local board of trustees must stay within the requirements of the statute if home educators are to preserve the freedom enjoyed under the present law.
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Wyoming
Admitted to statehood:
July 10, 1890
Origin of name:
Taken from Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, the site of an Indian massacre in 1778 which became widely known through Thomas Campbell’s poem “Gertrude of Wyoming.” The Algonquin word means “large prairie place” and the Delaware Indian word means “mountains and valleys alternating.”
Motto:
Equal rights.
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