Does anyone have any info about homeschooling in the Tennessee area?

Answer 1

Home education, also called homeschooling or home school, is an educational alternative in which children are educated at home by their parents, in contrast to the compulsory attendance which takes place in an institution with a campus such as a public school or private school. Home education methods are similar to those widely used before the popularization of compulsory attendance requirements in the 19th century. Before this time, the majority of education worldwide was provided at home by family and community members, with only the privileged attending privately-run schools or employing tutors, the only available alternatives at the time.

In modern times, although there were American families living overseas who were already homeschooling their children, the first parents known to homeschool within the United States were Tom and Mary Bergman of Utah, 1971. Unknown to each other at the time, the second known family was Charles and Virginia Birt Baker of Texas, 1972. Homeschooling was sometimes erroneously called unschooling, but the latter was a curriculum-free philosophy coined in 1977 by American educator John Holt in his alternative education magazine Growing Without Schooling. The terms homeschooling and home education also include instruction in the home by parents choosing to be under the supervision of correspondence schools, which are referred to as "umbrella schools" [example: Christian Liberty Academy].

In the United States, homeschooling is the focus of a substantial movement among parents who wish to provide their children with a custom or more complete education, which they feel is unattainable in most private schools or the government's public schools. While many families in the U.S. are educating their children at home, the vast majority still utilize the institutional setting for their children. Despite its popularity some people have concerns about the recent renaissance of this traditional method of educating children.

Answer 2

You need to find out what Tennessee requires. About.com has a list of links to state requirements and laws regarding homeschooling:
http://homeschooling.about.com/cs/gettingstarted/a/legalusa.htm good

and good info on homeschooling and how to begin and the basics:
http://homeschooling.about.com/od/gettingstarted/p/homeschool101.htm

They also have many resources and unit studies.

There are many places online that have numerous resources from worksheets, to projects, to lesson plans and unit studies.

Locally you might have a homeschool group which meets for playdates, or classes or activities. Probably your local library will know of some contacts.

Answer 3

to answer your question, you should find out about local "Charters" in your area. Charter schools.

Now to give you some advice before you ruin your life. If you are under 18, then do NOT take home schooling / charter, etc. I was FORCED to go on charter and was kicked out of highschool (real highschool) and was never able to get even a minute attendance in a real school after charter. It ruined my life, as it took away all my friends, forced me to no longer have a social life (as I didn't see anyone anymore and didn't get a chance to go back for a day or even a lunch to get all my friends numbers and tell all my school mates what i really felt for them), I never got to go to any of the school dances, never got to join any club or sports team (and I was very strong athlete), and not being able to go to real school for my remaining 2 YEARS dramataized me all the way until now. By the way, regardless of what anyone says... college is NOT school! SCHOOL has 1000000000000x more benefits than college. Being kicked out of real school and not getting the chance that i deserved really dramatized me and ruined my life. The ONLY thing that I can even have HOPE on, is having a son and granting him, and giving him the perfect life that I never got the chance to have.

Answer 4

Ask the college Receptionist and a thanks to get her right into a GATE software. All youthful ones are examined in college to make sure how a lot they understand, and in the adventure that they see she has intense score, then the college board would deliver you a letter stating the position she is able to bypass for presented pupil. My daughter is in straightforward and ever when you consider that she change colleges, because i did not like the instructor, they might proceed sorting out her on her understand-how, which she too is a gifted pupil. They gave me an software for a college called Manchester Gate college. She and that i spoke about it and she chosen to stay in that college till the top of her sixth grade, she has 2 more desirable years to bypass (she's in 4th grade). call your interior of sight college administrator to make sure the position you could p.c.. up an appl. or verify at your college to make sure if she is on the record for the Gate software. do not placed her in domicile college till, you locate out more desirable information with regard to the GATE software. leave homeschool for very last restort.

Answer 5

If you're looking for legal requirements, go to the HSLDA website.
They also list some of the state and local homeschooling groups.

Answer 6

You can find the laws here:

http://www.hslda.org/laws/default.asp?State=TN

There is a support group here:

http://www.theoleyschool.com/tennesseesupport.htm

And you can find the state standards here:

http://www.state.tn.us/education/ci/cistandards.htm