American Home Schools
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Montana Annually notify the county superintendent. Key parts of the Montana state code are sections 20-5-102, 20-5-109, and 20-5-111. Section 20-5-109 covers non-public schools as well as home schools, and includes requirements such as length of school year, maintaining immunization and attendance records, and providing regular instruction in basic subjects. Section 20-5-111 was written specifically about home schooling, and states that a parent has the authority to homeschool and is solely responsible for the educational philosophy; the selection of instructional materials, curriculum, and textbooks; the time, place, and method of instruction; and the evaluation of the home school instruction
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Summary:
Montana's State Supreme Court has
found: "The state's interest in universal education, however highly we rank it,
is not totally free from the balancing process when it impinges on fundamental
rights and interests, such as those specifically protected by the Free Exercise
Clause of the First Amendment, and the traditional interest of the parents with
respect to the religious upbringing of their children so long as they, in the
words of Pierce, 'preparing them for additional obligations.' We can
accept it as settled, therefore, that however strong the state's compelling
interest in universal compulsory education, it is by no means absolute to the
exclusion of subordination of all other interest."