North Carolina gov’t website crashes due to influx of parents filing to homeschool
The increasing willingness of parents in North Carolina to homeschool their children has led to the online system for filing a Notice of Intent to Establish a Home School being temporarily overwhelmed. "The system is not currently available due to an overwhelming submission of Notices of Intent (NOI)," the website explained to visitors in the evening hours of July 1.
"It will be back online as soon as possible," stated the North Carolina Department of Administration, to which the Division of Non-Public Education belongs. "We apologize for any inconvenience as we work to process NOIs as quickly as possible."
Robert Bortins, CEO of Classical Conversations, an organization active within the homeschooling movement, told North State Journal, "Families are uncertain if the public schools will be able to serve their families needs for school this fall. The pandemic schooling at home gave them the opportunity to see that they could homeschool, and now they are choosing to do it intentionally."