You decided. Now what?

What’s actually involved in withdrawing your child.

The same three steps in every state we support. Different documents, same shape. Here’s what’s coming.

• The withdrawal letter

  When your child stops attending public school, your district needs notice — in writing. That letter triggers everything else. It’s the document that gets your district the notice they need, transfers responsibility for your child’s education to you, and starts the paperwork timeline for your state.

  Most families write this from scratch and wonder if they have said the right thing. Growbook generates it for you, in your district’s expected format, ready to sign and send today.

• Why the letter comes first

  Once your child stops attending public school, your district expects to know — and how quickly varies by state. In some states the window can be as short as a few days. In others, the immediate deadline isn’t truancy itself — it’s the timeline to file your initial homeschool paperwork. In Massachusetts the rule is different again: home education can’t legally begin until your district approves your plan.

  The withdrawal letter — or in Massachusetts, the request to begin home education — is what gets the right document in front of the right person at your district. That’s why we put it first.

• What your state requires next

  After the letter, every state has its own ongoing paperwork — a yearly affidavit, a multi-document plan, a district approval — depending on where you live. Growbook generates each one from your family’s data and delivers it ready to sign.

  When you start, we’ll ask which state you’re in and walk you through what comes next.

Pennsylvania and New York pipelines live. Massachusetts in development.