how much does home schooling cost ???????? and how does it work ?????????

Answer 1

It depends on what you're looking for. I home school, but I use a public based homeschooling program. I get curriculum, teacher assistance, computer, Internet costs, etc. all provided by the school we are registered with. I highly recommend it for first timers who are not sure how to start home schooling their children.

Answer 2

There are many different ways to homeschool and the costs vary vastly.

Some people take a very expensive route and hire tutors to work with their kids. In that case, the kid would work with the tutors and then after his work was done, go to band practice or Scouts or other normal stuff.

Other people get a curriculum from their school and follow that. Relatively cheap, and the time spent varies with the kid. A smaller child, you'd help him with his work. An older child, you can just leave him alone.

You can make your own curriculum. This actually isn't hard. That can be very cheap; get a math book off of eBay or from a homeschooling group and everything else can come from the library. So your costs there are primarily standard school supplies, $20 for a math book and library late fees. Other people buy textbooks but you can get those cheap from a homeschooling group or a used bookstore.

You can do cyberschool. With that, you sign up with an online school and do the work assigned to you there. I personally wouldn't recommend it for a younger kid because it probably won't keep his interest for long, and it's not good for a little kid to spend so much time in front of a computer. That can be a few hundred dollars a year.

Or you can unschool. In that case the kid takes the lead and you just drive him around, buy him the books, answer the questions. However, that's a very radical step to take and most people don't go for it. It's pretty cheap. Homeschooling in general isn't expensive.

Answer 3

Well it depends on how you do it. It can cost anywhere from nothing, to thousands of dollars. I believe my mom usually spends about $100 - $200 a year on me and my sisters education, and I believe I am better educated than most public schoolers I know just from what I've seen.

Try finding out if there is a homeschool group in your area, or if you know of any homeschoolers try asking advise.
For your curiculum, (the textbooks) I would try looking at local used bookstores, Christian ones are most likely to have them. You should have an idea of what your kids are supposed to learn in their grade; if you don't, look around online, you should get an idea. Then once you've found a bookstore that sells homeschool curriculum, take a look and see what they have.

One suggesstion I'd like to make, is DON'T use A-Beka math for highschool. It's VERY difficult, more so then it should be. I only get a's because I study elsewhere. I've heard good things about Bob Jones, though.

If you have any more specific questions, feel free to message me.

May God bless your endeavors!

Answer 4

Different curriculums and teaching approaches cost different amounts. ABEKA for a year is about $400 plus consumables like paper, science experiment supplies, etc. Switched on Schoolhouse is about $210 if you shop around. Online schools can cost over $1000. Or you can make your own curriculum with free worksheets found online, workbooks bought at teachers supply, library books etc, and then it just depends on what you choose to spend and what the childs needs are.

You didn't say what grade you are asking about. If it is a small child then you start with the basics, colors, letters, numbers, shapes, phonics. Read to them a lot and work about an hour in the morning and again in the afternoon. During the day you teach a lot by talking and playing games.

Older kids you need a strong curriculum either a package you buy, or if you are REALLY sure you know where they are and where they need to go you can make your own. For them it depends a lot on how quickly they get it done. It tends to be like all things, they can clean their room in 20 minutes or it can take all day. But a good rule of thumb is about 4 hours of actual work time with additional independant reading time.

Good Luck.

Answer 5

We pay less on homeschooling materials than we did on school supplies at the beginning of the year.

We get most of our stuff free at the library or in our homeschool groups curriculum trade. One mom gave us a box of stuff when her kids had finished with it. I maybe spend $50 a year on blackline masters. I bought my son's algebra set for $2 at the public library booksale. It really only costs as much as you want to spend, and depends on how much work you put into looking for it.

There are free online curriculum resources. K12.com is free in 12 states (not ours of course!) and places like time4learning.com will give you free months in return for writing reviews and posting around the place, as well as referrals.

The best way to start is to read online at the state dept of education for the state you live in, and finding the requirements. They vary from state to state, in that some have no requirements, no testing, etc, and others you have to be registered and test yearly. Also contact your local homeschooling club. Not only will they have tons of information, but also it's a great start to social clubs and field trips etc. There are hundreds of yahoo groups for homeschoolers of all sorts, and blogs all over creation by homeschooling moms.

I'd start there and figure out what kind of learner your child is, what resources you need, and which method of hs'ing appeals to you.

Good luck

Answer 6

Depends on what the state requirements are for where you live. I home-school my children and use a curriculum that I buy from alpha omega. I got their information from the home-school legal defense website. The curriculum is very easy to follow and allows my older two to work on their own while I work with my first grader. Next year all four of my kids will be home-schooled and the curriculum for all four of them is only going to cost me around 600 dollars.

Also, check to see if their are any local home-schooling organizations that you can join for help and support.

Answer 7

It really depends on the school you go through. I went through the American School of Correspondence after two years of public school, and that was a couple thousand dollars. Some are more, and some are less. Penn Foster is another homeschooling organization I am familiar with. With the American School, you mail your tests in. I believe you do the same with Penn Foster, but if I'm not mistaken you can also turn in tests via internet or phone for some classes.

Answer 8

It costs however much you let it. You can get by with paper, pens and library books, internet resources, or you can dish out a couple thousand for a year's worth of resources (not including extracurricular activities, phys.ed. programs, music lessons, etc.).

How it works depends on where you live and what you choose to do. You can stick with the provisions for home education for where you live and do what they tell you to do (which might be nothing, or you might have to track hours, send in yearly reports, teach/learn specific subject areas, test...) or you can check into at-home programs that run through schools (this includes independent study programs) or online programs, like http://www.k12.com .

Answer 9

If we're counting simply books, I do not spend $a million,000 a yr, that's to not say that it could not fee that so much. If I did, it could nonetheless be a ways lower than the fee of 1 little one in a study room. (Private faculties in my field cost approximately $three,500 a yr for university, govt faculties run taxpayers approximately $five,000 a yr in line with little one. This does now not comprise the fee of pastime charges, study room presents, books, and apparel.) If we comprise the fee of swim courses, Cub Scout dues and uniforms, bowling charges (my youngest little one likes to bowl) and apparatus, piano courses, and so forth, you would get practically and potentially over that $a million,000. It does not, however, whilst my older youngsters had been at a prime tuition stage, we bought there. Keep in brain that the fee that tuition academics are supplying you with is on the whole headquartered on their fee of distance studying (ie K-12).

Answer 10

I home schooled through a branch of a public high school so a lot of my schooling was funded for me. I really liked homeschooling. I was able to learn what interested; I was able to choose the best form of learning for me so I got the best out of it.

When I entered public school I was a good reader but my skills shrunk and when I left I could hardly read. At home I excelled in reading and also farther in math. I was doing math that was several grades in advance of my own.

It is not good not put effort into providing social opportunities. I engaged in other social events, like community sports, church youth groups; I found other homeschooling families in my area and plenty of friends in my neighborhood.

Another thing that was of benefit of homeschooling was that my family grew closer together. We spent more time doing things we liked. Not meeting for dinner then get out homework assignments.

People tend to pick up traits from people they are around. If they are exposed to negative habits of others especially on a larger scale like public school, it is really difficult to get through.

I look now at my skills compared to other public school kids around me and I think I have kept more of what was taught to me, I also see that I can read and write much better than most around me. Yet some people are good at whatever they do and I do have subjects that I am not good at also.

I wanted to learn the violin so the school I home schooled through paid for privet lessons. The best way of homeschooling is customizing the way you learn and how you learn it. Positive encouragement and help is important.

I was given assignments on things I was to learn by my homeschool facilitator at the school when I meet about every twenty days and was mostly left to do it myself. I learned from Saxon math textbooks, boy scouting, the Internet, classes from the community collage and help from homeschool recourse networks.

There are many ways to homeschool, there are a lot of homeschool web pages and networks on the Internet that can be helpful and you should be able to get information from organizations in your area.