Church-Related Home School
Registration Form
Tennessee Department of Education

Received from the Metropolitan Board of Education (Nashville & Davidson County) on 8/1/01 but has remained the same for years This document is printed in duplicate. The first copy on a white sheet of paper for the local Superintendent of Schools the duplicate copy is printed on blue paper for the State Department of Education

The biggest problem with this document is that it hasn't been revised since the Jeter Memorandum was issued. That memorandum  is dated 1/29/99 which is about 2 1/2 years after this registration form was last revised. 

As a result, this document fails to indicate that the Jeter Memorandum allows that registration with the LEA is not required for persons registered with a Church Related School (CRS) where the CRS considers your home an extension or satellite of their school. Additionally, no child registered with a CRS in grades K-8 needs to register with the state at all. Please consult with your Church Related School for specific information for your situation.

This form also doesn't mention that the law doesn't require your reporting to the local education agency when you discontinue homeschooling (the school you transfer to to should write the district for the child's school records) or that the law doesn't require reporting changes of address. While you are free to extend this courtesy to the LEA it isn't specifically mentioned in the normal homeschooling codes.

Finally, this document's title confusingly includes the word "satellite" which is a word used specifically in the Jeter Memorandum to describe an education option that doesn't have to comply with this registration requirement.

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Front of ED2982

Back side of ED 2982