SB-1975 is a bill which instructs public schools to provide AP tests to “students who reside in the district.” HSOK is in favor of this bill, not because of an urgent need for homeschoolers to have access to AP tests, but that it is a model of wording that does not impinge on homeschool freedom, and we think that this should be adopted by others.
Note that this bill does not refer to homeschoolers at all. It doesn’t even try to make “education by other means” into a euphemism for homeschoolers. It just says that schools are to provide a particular service to students in their district, period.
Since the service is not academically gated, it does not encroach on the freedom of parents to educate as they please. It just, very simply and plainly, explains what services schools are to provide to residents of their district. I only wish every legislator would write legislation that was so simple, clear, and straightforward.
