It started with voicemail.
An official from the Eastern Lancaster County School District called a homeschooling mother to announce that she’d be coming by the next day at 8:30 a.m. Not dropping off a note or asking a question. She demanded to see the mother’s high school diploma, as though a government officer could appear uninvited at a private home and demand personal papers.
And the next morning, she did exactly that — arriving on the family’s doorstep with a school social worker in tow. It was an unmistakable display of power.
There was just one problem: Pennsylvania law doesn’t authorize any of that.
Under Pennsylvania’s homeschool statute, parents have a simple legal duty: file an affidavit, or unsworn declaration, confirming
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