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there’s some banter going on about home schooling with respect to an issue in California. It just so happens I’m working on some ‘issues’ with our own personal home schooling in ND and stumbled upon this in NDCentury Code. Basically even if you home school the state still pays the school district. Honestly I won’t get into the issue of my property taxes going towards school which my children do not attend. I don’t fight that. It’s no different than my retired neighbors paying into the school through property taxes. So here’s what does make me scratch my head.

15.1-23-19. Home education - State aid to school districts. For purposes of
allocating state aid to school districts, a child receiving home education is deemed enrolled in the
child’s school district of residence if the child is monitored by an individual who is licensed to
teach by the education standards and practices board or approved to teach by the education
standards and practices board and employed by the public school district in which the child
resides. A school district is entitled to fifty percent of the per student payment provided in section
15.1-27-04 times the appropriate factor in section 15.1-27-06 or 15.1-27-07 for each child
receiving home education. If a child receiving home education is enrolled in public school
classes, proportionate payments must be made. The total amount may not exceed the
equivalent of one full per student payment times the appropriate weighting factor.

I just dont’ get that state reimbursement. For what? Just so the schools can still receive funding?