Free Homeschooling Programs?!?

Well, the home school i am in is called "Visions in Education". It's free to enroll in. Here is how it works. 1.Get all of your test scores, attendance records, etc from the school your in now. 2.Bring them to your home schools office 3.From there you will have to take a math and English test so they know where you are. 4.They assign you your classes, give you a I.D. card, and you meet your teacher. 5.Your teacher will give you the guidelines of the school, and the rules you must follow. 6.Some rules are attending your teachers meetings, having a number of hours done on your homework, and thats pretty much all of the rules LOL. 7.Now, you start your homework, and you have to meet up with your teacher every 2 weeks to turn your homework into them, and they will help you if you need it. You usually meet up with them for a hour or 2. 8.Oh yeah, you can choose weather you want to do your homework on books, or on a computer. I chose computer because i can type fast. And that's how it all went for me. It only took me 2 days to get into homeschool. I went to my schools office, got all of my attendance records, grade records, etc, i took them to the home school's office, and than they signed me up the next day. Simple as that. :D

I saw your other question on homeschooling and I had somethings to tell you about it! :) 1. Homeschooling unfortunately is a long process that takes place that requires lots of planning. 2. There is something called Georgia virtual (ga virtual im using as an example)l where it's the class is held online and they teach you online. I use it as summer classes but I think you can use it as school. 3. We spend about 6 months planning for the next homeschool year. I don't know what the homeschool requirements are in your state but u may wanna look it up. 4. Tuition can be expensive. But I don't know how much..... Sorry about school! God bless!

This is my standard "Homeschooling 101" spiel: Be sure to look up the homeschooling laws in your state...each state gets to decide their education laws. Local homeschool support groups are pretty good for this; try Googling your nearest metro city with the words “homeschool support” to find a few near you. Some places will want you to submit your curriculum ahead of time for “approval” (almost always a formality); other states don’t even require that you tell them you’re homeschooling, you just stop going to school one day and that’s that. The next thing to realize is that there's a whole spectrum of what's called "homeschool." Some people sign up with an online version of public school; that’s really technically not “homeschool,” since you're counted as public school student and you’re assigned a teacher, a strict schedule, and predetermined workload assigned by the school district, etc. These are the "FREE" (paid for with tax money) online schools you hear about. The Dirty Little Secret here is that the district gets to keep the federal funds for you, as you’re a public school student this way. (Quite obviously, your school district will like this option best. Often when one queries the school as to the options available for “homeschool,” the school administrators will smile sweetly and mention just such an arrangement, conveniently omitting the rest of your options. This “lie by omission” quietly implies that this is the one and only way “homeschooling is done.” There’s a quite a debate in the homeschooling community about whether or not this constitutes an effort by the educational bureaucracy to redefine the meaning of homeschool, and what effect that would have on legislation and regulation of more traditional homeschool. But I digress.) There are other methods. Another route chosen by some people is to buy materials from the curriculum companies and enroll with online schools, but they're "independent" of the school districts, and they don't owe anyone a darned thing...their test scores (if any; few homeschoolers in the traditional sense are obligated to take state standardized tests) are their own business, as is the pace, order or depth at which they choose to go through the material. Others choose to mix and match from places that offer a "curriculum-in-a-box." Caveat Emptor on this one...and it will depend heavily on how you learn best as to whether or not a particular course or kit works well for you. Others decide to create their own curriculum, based on their own personal criteria. Some states want you to keep a portfolio of material to prove you're doing something there at home (makes for a great portfolio to turn in to colleges for admissions!), other states want you to submit your curriculum for the year for approval, others may require testing that could send you back to public or private school if you fall below a particular percentile...just in case. Again, depends on the state. Still other people endorse what they call "unschooling," and they throw out all the textbooks and tests altogether and simply follow what interests them in a more holistic way. (See the writings of John Holt, or Google "unschooling" for more on that theory of education.) A good book on the subject is “The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education,” by Grace Llewellyn. Here’s an excerpt: "Did your guidance counselor ever tell you to consider quitting school? That you have other choices, quite beyond lifelong hamburger flipping or inner-city crack dealing? That legally you can find a way out of school, that once you're out you'll learn and grow better, faster, and more naturally than you ever did in school, that there are zillions of alternatives, that you can quit school and still go to A Good College and even have a Real Life in the Suburbs if you so desire? Just in case your counselor never told you these things, I'm going to. That's what this book is for." Even if you don’t hold with what the author has to say, the point of view she has is dramatically different and can be a great springboard to help you get in touch with what you believe school and learning should be like. The book also outlines a very nice reference for curriculum, as well as chapters about dealing with your school, convincing your parents, and getting a social life. There’s a also a big section on interviews with college admissions officers, and what they see as pros and cons when they’re looking at a homeschooled student’s application. It's meant to be a very usable book.