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you look at your state’s attendance requirement and your head starts to spin, do not pass Go and do not collect $200. Turn directly to Appendix B and locate a homeschool organization for your state. Talk to someone from your state homeschool association and find out how home educators in your state manage the requirements in real life.

Table 3-1 in this chapter has a rundown of all the states and the required teaching days (or hours) required per year. Where you see None, no particular days are specified, but the state may have other regulations that you need to meet. Combining N with a number, as in N/180, means that your state offers a couple different homeschooling legal options. One option has no particular attendance requirement, but under the other alternative, you need to teach so many days.

These attendance requirements are current as of this book’s printing. Your best bet is to locate a copy of your state law and ensure that the attendance rules remain the same — if you find it changes, feel free to alter the requirement in the book. I won’t know, but you will, and that’s what counts.

TABLE 3-1 Homeschool Attendance Requirements by State

State	Requirement per Year	State	Requirement per Year
Alabama	None	Montana	720 hrs grades 1–3 1,080 hrs grades 4–12
Alaska	None	Nebraska	1,032 hrs elementary 1,080 hrs high school
Arizona	None	Nevada	None
Arkansas	None	New Hampshire	None
California	N/175 days	New Jersey	None
Colorado	N/172 days	New Mexico	180 days
Connecticut	None	New York	180 days
Delaware	None	North Carolina	Nine months
District of Columbia	Same as schools	North Dakota	175 days
Florida	None	Ohio	900 hrs
Georgia	180 days	Oklahoma	180 days
Hawaii	None	Oregon	None
Idaho	None	Pennsylvania	180 days
Illinois	None	Rhode Island	Same as schools
Indiana	180 days	South Carolina	180 days
Iowa	N/148 days	South Dakota	Same as schools
Kansas	186 days	Tennessee	180 days
Kentucky	185 days	Texas	None
Louisiana	180 days	Utah	None
Maine	175 days	Vermont	None
Maryland	None	Virginia	N/180 days
Massachusetts	900 hrs elementary 990 hrs secondary/180 days	Washington	180 days
Michigan	None	West Virginia	180 days
Minnesota	None	Wisconsin	875 hrs
Mississippi	None	Wyoming	None
Missouri	1,000 hrs

Calling a Truce: Interacting with Your Local School

      Most of the homeschool hassles occur at the local school level. Someone sends out a letter from the superintendent’s office requesting all kinds of information that homeschoolers legally have no obligation to provide, and people get all stirred up. One person calls the state board of education, another calls the legislature, and a third calls a journalist. Before you know it, the school system has a huge mess on its hands, all because somebody got a little nosy.

      Situations like this happen every single year in school systems around the country. The same school system usually doesn’t do it more than once or twice (bad press is not good when you rely on the public for funds and you’re seen as oppressing the poor homeschoolers), but it does occur. And it may happen in your community.

      Or you may receive a phone call from your local school system demanding information or an interview. Usually the education folks leave the homeschoolers alone because they have plenty to do searching out the true truants. Once in a while, though, you may meet someone on a power trip, or an official who truly doesn’t know what’s going on, and that’s where the

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