Home Schooling in Wyoming

Elizabeth was born in March of 2003. The Spring of 2008, right before Her Kindergarten Year of School started, we decided we preferred to Home School her. However, David and I went through a Divorce that Summer. And due to the stress levels already upon My Family, and at the suggestion of My Bishop, I decided to send her to Jackson Elementary.

She had a little bit of a rough time her first year of Public School. And at the suggestion of her Teacher, instead of sending her on to First Grade, we had her stay in Kindergarten for a 2ND year. By mid Jan of this year, she was doing fine academically, however, she was having a hard time staying focused and some light discipline issues. We noticed that it was really hard to have her transition from school to home and back.

We chose to pull her out of School as of Feb 1st to see how she did being at home without going to school.

After seeing the progress she was making, we opted not to have her finish the School Year at School, and are enrolling her in a Virtual Academy for next year in order to Home School her.

She turned 7 in March. We got a call from a Truancy Agent of the County Prosecutor's office last week. She wants to meet with David and Elizabeth.

She told him on the phone that Elizabeth has been referred to her office by someone.

SO, we got a hold of the paperwork and looked up on line the information we needed to in order to find out where we stand and what the consequences of Elizabeth not being in School the rest of this year are.

According to Wyoming Law: No Child is REQUIRED to be enrolled in any type of School until they turn 7 before Sept 15Th of any given School year. In layman's terms: If she turned 7 before Sept 15Th of the 2009-2010 School Year, she has to attend School or be officially enrolled in an approved Home School program before School starts in September (Or August depending on the School) and attend the WHOLE 9 months of school for that School Year.

HOWEVER, since she did not turn 7 until 2010, she has until the 2010-2011 School Year before this applies to her.

So, David will keep his appointment. However, Elizabeth will be staying at home with me.

IF we were in violation of this, we could be fined anywhere from $5 to $1000 and/or face jail time of up to 10 days in jail.