Homeschooling in Alabama

Alabama has some of the most relaxed laws around homeschooling in the entire United States.

Alabama is one of the easiest states to homeschool your children.

This is because home education in Alabama is not regulated at all, so parents essentially have total freedom over the when, where and how of home school education of children of all school ages.

Although parents in Alabama are told to inform the school district about withdrawing from school, and the intention to homeschool, in reality the authorities have no obligation to follow this up to ensure that parents are reporting homeschooling activity.

In simple terms: parents in Alabama are able to do as they wish when it comes to educating their children.

Americans who are keen to live somewhere where home education is unregulated will find that Alabama provides one of the simplest and least regulated paths to starting homeschool with your children of any age.

And over the past 10 years, parents have not had to meet any sort of qualification to undertake home education. Previously there were requirements to have similar qualififications to a private tutor, but this no longer applies. This means any parent in Alabama, regardless of qualifications or their own education, can homeschool their children starting from kindergarten.