Kiplinger.com has a good article on how to homeschool:
Once considered a fringe group, parents who home-school their children aren't such rarities anymore. Families looking for an alternative to schools with too few challenges or too many distractions, or for a way to tailor the curriculum to a child's needs, have swelled the ranks of home-schooled kids. In 2003 more than a million children were being taught at home, a 30% jump from 1999. Estimates now put the number closer to two million.
The piece goes onto summarize some of the financial challenges and solutions, including creative work schedules for the parents, part time work, and working from home. It also examines curriculum, high school and college considerations and such.
My family homeschools and we absolutely love it. It provides tremendous flexibility for taking family road trips (you can school while you're gone, or catch up when you get back), and other more routine opportunities that arise. It keeps our children a little more isolated from some of the kids that could lead them astray, and helps us ensure our children are learning OUR values, not those of a secularist education system that, even under the best of circumstances, has no choice (thanks to our judicial oligarchy) but to teach children that their faith is something to be marginalized and kept out of "the real world."
And to top off all the practical and value advantages of homeschooling, our children are several years ahead of their grade level without even pushing them.
If you really want to give your children the very best, consider homeschooling. It isn't as hard as you might think.
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I am the product of Public Schools just before the 1962 and 1963 Supreme Court decisions that ejected God from them took full effect. My fondest memory is of my first grade teacher opening her class each morning with a brief reading from the Old Testament. It made my day, and, I believe, my life of faith. My heart grieves that practice is outlawed today in Public Classrooms.
One limitation of home schooling is in the area of High School level computer and physical science curricula. Let’s face it – no parent can be expert in all the subjects their developing teenager should be exposed to in order to function in a technologically advanced society.
One alternative to expensive private schools – and maybe all-night sessions trying to figure out a problem for your intellectually advanced offspring -- are Internet based schools like The Potter’s School
http://www.pottersschool.org
I myself will be teaching computer programming there. Please see
http://www.pottersschool.org/MrLarson
Not only is home schooling becoming more socially acceptable, more choices for sound curricula is also coming “online” (pun intended).
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