Why not “homebound” instead of “home-schooled?”

In the next story, there appears to be no intention on the part of the family to continue homeschooling after the sentence is served (“home-school” is a punishment, not a choice by the family) so why doesn’t the school just treat the boy as homebound?

Sentence: Intensive probation — Hiland teenager admits to taking handgun to school, 13 July 2007, Wooster Daily Record, Wooster, Ohio

An assistant prosecuting attorney agreed Thursday to strict probation for a 13-year-old boy who brought a handgun into Hiland Middle School.

The agreement was made on the condition detention at a youth services facility be imposed if the boy fails to meet obligations outlined in a plea agreement.

“(The boy) has been expelled for one year since May, so he won’t be able to return to school until the end of the next school year,” Raber said. “It will be important for him to continue to work on his education, so he can come back ready to learn.”

Ginsberg ordered the boy’s probation to continue indefinitely, and ordered a review hearing on the boy’s progress to be held in no less than 90 days. He ordered the boy enroll in a home-school program and released him from electronically monitored house arrest, imposed by the court in April.

If the intent is to have the boy return to school, why not have him keep up exactly with his classmates?

The practice of schools teaching children at home is common enough in Ohio for at least one telephone company to have a standard operating procedure, and billing charge, for “homebound.”

Homebound Student School Service, 5 March 2007, United Telephone Company of Ohio

Homebound student school service is an intercommunication service designed for two-way conversation for schoolroom instruction to students who are unable to attend school. The school and home both have portable and/or permanent stations consisting of a combined speaker-microphone and amplifier.

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