District’s Quest for Information Leads to Strange Request February 09, 2021 The digital era’s increasing demand for information appears to be creating an unfortunate consequence for some homeschool families. They’re being asked to comply with bureaucratic requirements that are unnecessary—and in some cases border on the absurd. This problem was illustrated again recently in New York. St. Regis Falls Central School District officials told a family who wanted to switch from private school that their initial homeschool paperwork could not be accepted. The reason? Officials said the family could not homeschool unless they first enrolled their children in the public school.