You can utilize any resources you want, including mentors, tutors, anyone else willing to offer something of value to your kids, and structured classes offered by a variety of institutions and community organizations. Some parents do essentially everything, some take on certain responsibilities and delegate others, and some contract almost everything out. I've had an affidavit on file for about 15 years, and no one in authority has ever even hinted that they want to check up on me. Nevertheless, I feel obliged to comply with basic laws. We believe that conscious human beings are learning all the time, intentionally or not, and that constructive engagement in anything is educational.
People learn continuously.
It isn't possible to be absent from education, and, in a school like ours, it isn't possible to be absent from school. Therefore we consider each actively enrolled student to be present every day. This policy statement along with our current enrollment roster is our attendance register. If you were to start a school and feel obligated to actually take attendance, there's a simple way to minimize this task. There are no mandates from the state that set minimum lengths for school days or school years in a private school.