Heather

Hi All,

We are currently living in Idaho (where I know the homeschooling laws
are very 'relaxed' and 'open') after having moved here in February from
Omaha Nebraska. However, due to a rather sad job market (or so we've
found in the town we live in anyway) we have decided we are likely
going to move back to Omaha next Spring/Summer. (as soon as we can sell
our house/land and get all the particulars worked out etc) As I've
discussed on the group before, I plan to homeschool/unschool my kids
(they are only 3 1/3 and nearly 2 just now so I've got a bit of time
before I have to worry about the 'laws' but...). Does anyone know
the 'laws' and whatnot in Nebraska regarding Homeschooling? I tried to
find something about it on the internet and found a law about how if
you homeschool you need to 'establish a private school' to
homeschool... Does anyone have experience with this and how it is done.
It also appears there are attendance requirements and I assume those
can be met by just keeping a 'record' of attendance in a book (easy
enough)... Any ideas or experience would be appriciated. Thanks!
Smiles,
Heather

jlh44music

"Heather" <johevili72@...> wrote:
> Does anyone know the 'laws' and whatnot in Nebraska regarding
Homeschooling? I tried to find something about it on the internet and
found a law about how if you homeschool you need to 'establish a
private school' to homeschool... Does anyone have experience with
this and how it is done.>

Check out nhen.org http://www.nhen.org/leginfo/detail.asp?
StateCode=Nebraska

as a starting point and hopefully someone here is from Nebraska who
can point to you a more detailed site. Also, have you looked to see
if there are any yahoo homeschool groups in NE? I belong to the one
in MA that's more traditional as far as homeschoolers go, but it was
very helpful when I was first starting out as far as learning a lot
about the particulars and ins and outs of filing paperwork etc in my
state. I found this after a quick search of yahoo groups:

bellevueoffutthomeschool
NESHE
Western_Nebraska

Jann (who enjoys searching the internet!)

Heather

Jann,

Thanks! I'd found and signed up for the NESHE group but hadn't found
the Bellevue/Offutt one! Thanks for finding that for me!

Smiles,
Heather

--- In [email protected], "jlh44music"
<jlh44music@...> wrote:
>
> "Heather" <johevili72@> wrote:
> > Does anyone know the 'laws' and whatnot in Nebraska regarding
> Homeschooling? I tried to find something about it on the internet
and
> found a law about how if you homeschool you need to 'establish a
> private school' to homeschool... Does anyone have experience with
> this and how it is done.>
>
> Check out nhen.org http://www.nhen.org/leginfo/detail.asp?
> StateCode=Nebraska
>
> as a starting point and hopefully someone here is from Nebraska who
> can point to you a more detailed site. Also, have you looked to
see
> if there are any yahoo homeschool groups in NE? I belong to the
one
> in MA that's more traditional as far as homeschoolers go, but it
was
> very helpful when I was first starting out as far as learning a lot
> about the particulars and ins and outs of filing paperwork etc in
my
> state. I found this after a quick search of yahoo groups:
>
> bellevueoffutthomeschool
> NESHE
> Western_Nebraska
>
> Jann (who enjoys searching the internet!)
>

jlh44music

"Heather" <johevili72@...> wrote:
> Thanks! I'd found and signed up for the NESHE group but hadn't found
the Bellevue/Offutt one! Thanks for finding that for me! >

You're welcome! Try here:
Subscribe: [email protected]

Jann