What Massachusetts actually asks of a family teaching their own children. Written plainly, and honest where the answer is that nobody asks for anything.
United StatesFiling requiredWho is in charge
Local school committee, or the superintendent acting on its behalf
Who actually reviews your child
The local school committee or the superintendent, a genuine approval decision, not a filing.
Before instruction begins; renewed each year
Goes to: School committee / superintendent
Must set out the proposed curriculum, the materials to be used, the number of hours and days of instruction, and the qualifications of the instructing parent. Instruction may not lawfully begin until approved.
As agreed
How often: as set in the approved plan
Goes to: SUBMITTED to the superintendent or school committee
Care and Protection of Charles permits the superintendent or committee to require standardized testing or another form of periodic evaluation as a condition of approval, but a specific method cannot be imposed over the parent's objection where an alternative would serve.
Filing on time is the easy half. The harder half is the year in between: showing what your child actually learned, in words the reviewer recognises, without turning your home into a school.
That is what this app is for. You say what your child did, in a sentence. It maps that to the real curriculum for Massachusetts and builds the record you can hand over the day someone asks. See how it works.