Your Six Responsibilities:

1.    Send a notice of intent to your school district superintendent or come to the Home
        Education office and fill out a Home Education Registration Form.

        Your notice of intent must include each of the following:

        a.    Name of each child (6-18 years of age)
        b.    Birth date & Grade of each child
        c.    Address & Phone Number
        d.    Parent's signature

        (The notice must be filed in the district superintendent's office within 30 days
            after you begin your home education program.  It is wise to do this immediately
            after the establishment of your program, however, to avoid truancy allegations.
             If you wish you may send it in prior to the time  you begin to home educate.  You
             may send your notice certified mail, return receipt requested to prove that it reached
             its destination or you may register at the school board office.  Your district home
             education office will have the proper form for you to submit each year)

2.        Maintain a portfolio of records

            Your portfolio must contain two main parts:

            a.    Your documented records, "a log, made contemporaneously
                    with the instruction, which designates by title reading materials
                    used."

            b.    Your dated sample materials, "samples of any writings, worksheets,
                    workbooks, and creative materials used or developed by the student."

            c.    Keep a separate portfolio of each of the following subject areas:

                    Language Arts
                    Social Studies
                    Science
                    Mathematics

            d.     Keep a list of the titles of authors of all books used.

3.        Make your portfolio available for inspection by the superintendent upon a 15-day
            written notice.

          Under the Florida law you are required to make your portfolio "available for inspection
                by the superintendent or his agent, upon 15 days' written notice."  The superintendent
                does not have to have a reason but he does have to provide the 15-day written notice.

4.        Submit an annual evaluation for each child to the school district superintendent.

          Evaluations are due in the District Office by June 30th of each year.  An acceptable
                evaluation consists of one of the following:

                a.    A teacher selected by the parent shall evaluate the pupil's educational
                        progress.  The teacher shall hold a VALID REGULAR FLORIDA
                        CERTIFICATE to teach academic subjects at the elementary or
                        secondary level.  The teacher shall submit a written evaluation to the
                        school superintendent.

                b.    The pupil shall take a nationally normed student achievement test
                        administered by a FLORIDA CERTIFIED teacher.

                c.    The Columbia County School System now makes the FCAT available
                        to home school students.  Look in the fall for registration deadline
                        dates in the newspaper or as a public service announcement.

5.        Preserve your child's portfolio for two years.

6.        A Notification of Termination form shall be filed if the program is being terminated
            for any reason, e.g., moving from district, returning to public school, enrolling in
            a private school, or upon completion of program.

          NO diploma from the District School Board of Columbia County can be issued
            for a student in the home education program.

         ALL CURRICULUM, TEXTBOOKS, SUPPLIES, AND EVALUATIONS ARE
          THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PARENT/GUARDIAN.