I looked up the laws and regulations in the state of Oklahoma. Basically:
1) 180 days a year in school is the time-measured approach.
However, I'm using the 'competency' based approach to which actual days/time don't apply (competency does). This is similar to the approach of the groundbreaking WGU.edu online college, sponsored by Google and other huge industry leaders, which believes that your butt in a chair means little, and your actual understanding of the material means everything.
2) There are no curriculum requirements, and no requirement that you use any form of 'accreditation' in your sources.
However, it's suggested you cover the same ground public school does, which is noted to be: Math, Social Studies, Language Arts, Science, Health. So I will make a point to cover those, as well as other things.
3) If your kid has not yet been to public school, you do not need to tell the school district anything. If the child was previously in public school, you need to give them a formal notice specifying that you are now homeschooling.
4) The only thing anybody official has the right to ask is: (a) what quantity of days in your school year [this on the assumption of the time-based measure], and (b) what courses you are teaching. Officials do not have the right to interrogate, to visit, to inspect, to test, or anything else.
There's also a religious clause, not that I needed it, but it exists.
Oklahoma has some of the most homeschool-friendly laws in the nation, fortunately.
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