Past Legislative Actions

Extra-curricular activities From time to time homeschoolers attempt to force the public school system to allow them to participate in extra-curricular activities, usually sports activities. Despite strong progress made in other states this remains a hard nut to crack in Tennessee. The main obstacle is the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association.

Leave CRS An attempt in 2002 was made to require homeschoolers that left a CRS to report to the LEA how the child was next to be educated failed badly in a House floor vote.

Truancy and Truancy+ Because homeschoolers have a large amount of autonomy and are frequently out and about in their communities truancy issues are a concern. When school districts start aggressively dealing with the problem we must be careful not to become accidentally caught in their large net as was the case with some West Tennessee families and eventually resulted in the writing of the Jeter Memorandum.

Homeschooling Teachers have attempted in the past to become exempt from the rule that says if you register with the LEA you must meet the deadline (which can be waived but isn't always.) This legislation never went anywhere.