Home-Schooling
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
If you are interested in or need more info about home-schooling, Here's a small bit that I have found while hunting on the internet. So you can make an informed decision about what is best for you and your children. I hope it helps.
What is better Home-Schooling or State-run or Private Schools.
Home Schooling
Pro's:
You know what is being taught to your children.
You know immediately what your children need to work harder on and can compensate right away to help with their studies.
You are allowed (in the USA) a certain amount of money to fund your Home School.
You can buy whole grade level lessons through many different companies that specialize in home-schooling. That either meet or excede state guidelines.
The child who won last years "national spelling bee" was home-schooled.
Cons: All states and counties/school districts differ in what is required for you to know in order to teach.
Some require you to have a B.A. degree of some kind. and others do not.
Some states and counties/school districts allow you to teach your children upto a certain grade level.
Then they either have to enter a public/private run school or be tutored by someone who does have the required credentials.
Both Types:
Require that the children be tested at certain times of the year to check their progress.
This is expecially important to Home School's because the state and county/school district that you are in can require you to put your children in a public or private school if they do not do as well on the tests as they should.
State run schools:
cons:
You do not know exactly what is being taught to your child, or how it is taught.
Especially if you are not able to go into the school periodically to check up on the lessons that the teacher is giving.
Here in America the "Land of the Free" children in certain types of classes are asked personal questions about themselves and their family lives.
They are expected to answer truthfully, they are also told NOT to tell their parents about anything that is discussed/done in the classrooms. Now this is usually a Jr/Sr high thing to ensure privacy of the children who what/need to talk about problems at home. But the school/teacher is promoting keeping things from the parents that maybe the parents need to or have a right to know about.
Also in some places there are laws that prohibit you from seeing/learning about your Jr/Sr High students school records.
Pros:
You don't have to really be all that involved with your child's education on a day to day basis.
You shouldn't have to worry about your childs activities between 7:30am-3:30pm. You know where they are suppose to be between those hours.
Your Child will be getting the required amount of school days/hours per year.
You don't have to do all the record keeping that is required with home-schooling. Because that is all done by the school district.
There is no end to internet sites that were set up for home-schooling parents.
Don't forget about the State Regulations on Who can teach @ home; what Qualifications one must have. How much of what you must teach everyday/week/180 day term. Who is allowed to do the testing of progress of home-schooled children.
Now I have a search engine on my home computer called webferret that does all the searching for me. But just the regular one in the address bar will do quite well for anyone. just remember to put in the "+" sign or you will get things pertaining to just "home" and just "schooling". How I do the search is "home+schooling" (skip the " " marks).
I figured out that if you go to the "teacher" sites. You get everything (usually for free) from curriculum to worksheets and on line games that help with math, science, art and reading probably a lot more sub-subjects also. Everything to incorperate religious ideas to the strict state requirements are listed. I just sign up as a teacher or if they have it a home-schooler.
I have scads of sites saved on my home & work computers dedicated to home-schooling. If you would like a list of some of them just let me know. You could just type into your searh engine " teacher sites " with out the quote marks to get 100's of listings.
" ABOUT.COM " is a favorite site of mine, I have found it to be a great source for getting all kinds of age/grade appropriate lessons on many different subjects.
You can find state requirements on your states education site.
usually marked as k.12.state name or abreviation.edu
Or by going to your state homepage, usually state name.gov
As for any other countries (besides USA-) I have no knowledge of home-schooling programs or regulations in your area of the world! I suggest you search for the rules/regulations for your area. But the sites would be just as valid for you to use to get worksheets and ideas.
I would welcome any from other countries with their home-schooling information to add it here or send to my e-mail address for me to add it to this. I would love to have this help as many people in the world as possible.
Questions/comments can be put on "my space" or you can e-mail me @ [email protected] (an account I set up for homeschooling stuff.)
Researcher Jolietristan
What is better Home-Schooling or State-run or Private Schools.
Home Schooling
Pro's:
You know what is being taught to your children.
You know immediately what your children need to work harder on and can compensate right away to help with their studies.
You are allowed (in the USA) a certain amount of money to fund your Home School.
You can buy whole grade level lessons through many different companies that specialize in home-schooling. That either meet or excede state guidelines.
The child who won last years "national spelling bee" was home-schooled.
Cons: All states and counties/school districts differ in what is required for you to know in order to teach.
Some require you to have a B.A. degree of some kind. and others do not.
Some states and counties/school districts allow you to teach your children upto a certain grade level.
Then they either have to enter a public/private run school or be tutored by someone who does have the required credentials.
Both Types:
Require that the children be tested at certain times of the year to check their progress.
This is expecially important to Home School's because the state and county/school district that you are in can require you to put your children in a public or private school if they do not do as well on the tests as they should.
State run schools:
cons:
You do not know exactly what is being taught to your child, or how it is taught.
Especially if you are not able to go into the school periodically to check up on the lessons that the teacher is giving.
Here in America the "Land of the Free" children in certain types of classes are asked personal questions about themselves and their family lives.
They are expected to answer truthfully, they are also told NOT to tell their parents about anything that is discussed/done in the classrooms. Now this is usually a Jr/Sr high thing to ensure privacy of the children who what/need to talk about problems at home. But the school/teacher is promoting keeping things from the parents that maybe the parents need to or have a right to know about.
Also in some places there are laws that prohibit you from seeing/learning about your Jr/Sr High students school records.
Pros:
You don't have to really be all that involved with your child's education on a day to day basis.
You shouldn't have to worry about your childs activities between 7:30am-3:30pm. You know where they are suppose to be between those hours.
Your Child will be getting the required amount of school days/hours per year.
You don't have to do all the record keeping that is required with home-schooling. Because that is all done by the school district.
There is no end to internet sites that were set up for home-schooling parents.
Don't forget about the State Regulations on Who can teach @ home; what Qualifications one must have. How much of what you must teach everyday/week/180 day term. Who is allowed to do the testing of progress of home-schooled children.
Now I have a search engine on my home computer called webferret that does all the searching for me. But just the regular one in the address bar will do quite well for anyone. just remember to put in the "+" sign or you will get things pertaining to just "home" and just "schooling". How I do the search is "home+schooling" (skip the " " marks).
I figured out that if you go to the "teacher" sites. You get everything (usually for free) from curriculum to worksheets and on line games that help with math, science, art and reading probably a lot more sub-subjects also. Everything to incorperate religious ideas to the strict state requirements are listed. I just sign up as a teacher or if they have it a home-schooler.
I have scads of sites saved on my home & work computers dedicated to home-schooling. If you would like a list of some of them just let me know. You could just type into your searh engine " teacher sites " with out the quote marks to get 100's of listings.
" ABOUT.COM " is a favorite site of mine, I have found it to be a great source for getting all kinds of age/grade appropriate lessons on many different subjects.
You can find state requirements on your states education site.
usually marked as k.12.state name or abreviation.edu
Or by going to your state homepage, usually state name.gov
As for any other countries (besides USA-) I have no knowledge of home-schooling programs or regulations in your area of the world! I suggest you search for the rules/regulations for your area. But the sites would be just as valid for you to use to get worksheets and ideas.
I would welcome any from other countries with their home-schooling information to add it here or send to my e-mail address for me to add it to this. I would love to have this help as many people in the world as possible.
Questions/comments can be put on "my space" or you can e-mail me @ [email protected] (an account I set up for homeschooling stuff.)
Researcher Jolietristan
