• Home and Hospital Instruction

    These are educational services provided to students who are unable to attend school due to a medical or physical condition, or a severe emotional or psychological disability. Home and hospital instruction programs are designed to support students in keeping up with their studies while they are unable to attend school, and are intended to be temporary. Home and hospital instruction program staff work with students’ current schools to ensure continuity of instruction and service, to the greatest extent possible taking into account the student’s condition. 

    • Students in grades 7-12 must at a minimum receive 10 hours of home instruction per week, as determined by the CSE
    • Students in grades K-6 must at a minimum receive 5 hours of home instruction per week, as determined by the CSE

    Hospital instruction: Students receive instruction once they are admitted to a hospital setting. Instruction is provided to the extent a student is medically able, and hospital physicians make this determination. Hospital instruction ends when the student is discharged from the hospital. If the student is still too ill to return to school, parents should proactively submit a request for home instruction before the student is discharged from the hospital, to minimize the delay in transitioning to home instruction.