All the academic work is done at home or a local tutors. Athletics tend to be a hodge podge of go-outside-and-play and formal sports and training programs.

Locally, home schools are considered private schools. Parents can either act as a de facto private school, enroll in a independent study program from a private or public school, or, if they are credentialed, can act as a official tutor.

What make home schooling so contentious is the parents who act as a de facto private school need to be deemed capable of teaching by a private school administration, and they have to teach the mandated courses. Parents who home school for political or religious reasons tend to resist these requirements because they disapprove of the madated curricula.