Sherry in OH Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 Dh has been interviewing for a job in Arkansas. It would be a good career move for him and if offered the position with reasonable salary and benefits, he wants to accept it. So, what is homeschooling like in Arkansas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 Fine. We like it. I submit my intent form with my curriculum every year. When we had state testing, we did that every year, but they took that rule out a few years ago. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweet2ndchance Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 Usually just lurk here, but just wanted to let you know that homeschooling in AR is fairly simple. Yearly notice of intent to your local school district, kindergarten can be wavered for you technically don't have to start submitting notice of intent until your child is 6 years old and entering 1st grade. As the previous poster stated, yearly testing was done away with a few years ago so no testing unless you want to. We have a Tim Tebow law that allows homeschoolers to tryout for public school sports teams and participate in public school extracurriculars but you have to attend one class at the school. Rural areas are heavy on religious homeschool groups but more urban areas, like Little Rock, Hot Springs, Fayetteville and Texarkana have a little more variety. My son has an IEP through our local school district for speech therapy. If he couldn't get speech though the school district, we would have to drive a 3 hours round trip to visit a private SLP once a week. The school didn't give us any trouble about being homeschoolers needing services though the schools. In fact, even the SLP he sees at the school homeschools her own dd lol! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anmom Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 Previous poster answered everything but wanted to chime in as another AR homeschool. We have an easy state thank goodness! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bics Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 Besides the ease of it with the state, I would add that in the areas of which I am familiar (NWA and the River Valley), it is friendly toward homeschooling. Libraries offer classes, museums run things for homeschoolers, some private schools will allow high schoolers to enroll a la carte (science class with a lab, art with all the materials, etc.) We have enjoyed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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