how much do homeschool teachers make?

Question

I was interested in homeschooling and I was wondering what is the going rate to hire a teacher to come in and home school a child in the state required curriculum.

Someone has offered me a position to homeschool their child. The child previously attended a VERY VERY expensive private school. So what is a fair rate for a a credentialed teacher

Answer 1

Most states do not ALLOW another person other than a parent to homeschool. Even if the parent wants to. I would check into the legal aspects of this little endevor.

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Answer 2

Are you a credentialed teacher, you didn't state that. And, not to be mean, but you don't have to be credentialed to homeschool, so it really wouldn't be fair to charge as much as a teacher in a school. And, when a child is homeschooled it only takes a few hours a day, between 2-3. So, if I were to pay someone to homeschool my child, I wouldn't pay anymore than $10 an hour, depending on how involved you have to be with the child/ren. Now, if you are babysitting these children as well as homeschooling, than just call some day cares in your area to find out what the rate of pay is for that and add it to the homeschooling fee. There's really a lot of variables to consider. Are you doing this at your house or theirs? Are you paying for curriculum, meals, etc? What will your expenses be? If you're going to their house and they're paying for everything, then you really can't charge that much, that wouldn't be fair. It doesn't matter if they were used to paying a high price at the private school. Homeschooling is all about the child and what is best for THEM, and if you're not doing it with that in mind, then don't do it. They can keep the child in school if they want them in a system that is all about the money, but what they're wanting is someone to take more one on one time with their kids, to really teach them and go for retention and not just memorization. I homeschool my child, and will continue to do so until my kids graduate, but I can tell you I couldn't in good conscience charge someone any more than $10/hour. I've homeschooled two other kids for family members, and will possibly be homeschooling the one I babysit, and I never charged the families I homeschooled for.

Answer 3

Depends, how long will you be with their child every day? Are you planning on buying the curriculum, or will the parents be doing all the work choosing the curriculum, buying it, and deciding the pace? Will it be at your home, or in the child's home? Will you be feeding the child breakfast, lunch, snacks? Will you be responsible for field trips and other outings? It also depends on where you live, cost of living and such. I'd expect to pay more for such services in Manhattan, say, over Smalltown Oklahoma.

There are many variables, personally I feel that you're a paid tutor. You aren't a private school, and even though you are certified as a teacher, you aren't providing the services that a private school would offer. As a parent, I'd offer to pay by the hour, $10 to $20, taking into account location and time spent in preparation, including reimbursement for admittance fees, gas expenditures, supplies, etc. If you were wise you'd turn that down, as most of those expenses would be deductible as business costs if not reimbursed.

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how much do homeschool teachers make?
I was interested in homeschooling and I was wondering what is the going rate to hire a teacher to come in and home school a child in the state required curriculum.

Answer 5

Well, clearly not all public school teachers feel this way. I know of quite a few public school teachers (or former public school teachers) who homeschool their children, usually because they know the public schools so well that they don't want their children in them. Personally, I don't think that a teaching certificate helps anyone teach. The vast majority of the classes that I took for my certificate taught little beyond how to properly document lessons and how to deal with crowd control. I learned how to really teach through a combination of on-the-job-training and listening to (and watching) veteran teachers share their wisdom. Teachers who highly value teaching certificates may do so out of fear of losing their own jobs. Some may do so out of genuine fear for homeschooled students (mixed with a lot of ignorance on their part, since the fears are rarely justified). Some may do so because of the rare student who returns to school and does poorly (but fail to realize that if they'd been in public school, the outcome may have been the same or worse).

Answer 6

If you are just going into the home to teach the child, charge tutoring prices, which would be [in the areas I've lived] something like $20/hr. I'd think you could teach 'most' kids in 2-3 hours TOPS; if the child is old enough you could assign homework which would take off the time you'd have to spend. This would still cost the parent $10k or so for the year - is the parent wanting to spend that much?

If you have to have the child in YOUR home for the entire school day, that is a completely different situation. I hs and if someone wanted me to hs their child that way, they'd really have to pay because that would be so disruptive.

I've been asked to hs other people's kids a number of times, and I've turned the people down because they could send a couple of kids to private school for what I'd charge for one...

Answer 7

It is going to vary from state to state and area to area. Many homeschoolers have access to tutors and co-ops now. This helps bring down the cost.

There are homeschool programs for children still enrolled and those vary.

There are also some co-ops who have teachers who are paid for individual classes. These co-ops wages vary greatly. i know of one co-op who's classes for the semester are the same price as another one is for just a month. The first relies on volunteers, even though they offer the same or better in classes.

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Answer 9

I wasn't aware that we parents were supposed to be receiving a salary. What a great idea! Now if only I could charge for the laundry, dishes, etc., I might be able to retire comfortably before I'm 900 years old. **Winks at the other homeschool moms**

Answer 10

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As a homeschooling mother I'm going to say something that might surprise you, but just because you are doing well with your children and the co-op children, doesn't mean that everyone is doing so well. Just as the sensational "bad" teacher makes headlines, so do the "bad" homeschooling families. That colors how others view what we do. IMHO, we need to have the freedom to do what is best for the individual child. In some cases, at some points in their lives, public education may be best. For others, private/charter schools may offer the smaller classes, immersion experiences, religious/moral foundation, etc. that would fit best with the student's needs. And yet for others, homeschooling may provide the atmosphere and focused, individualized attention that your child needs. In my experience over the past 15 yrs., public school teacher's opinions toward homeschool are quite varied. Some end up quitting and homeschooling their own, when they identify the need to do so. Some don't care what we do with our own. Some tell us (secretly) that they wish they could afford to stay at home and teach their own first. Some despise everything about us and never fail to belittle us in front of our children and voice unsolicited criticism to our children (I can count these on one hand, thankfully). I was an RN years ago, and worked during the time when medicaid and medicare and insurance reimbursement for care was changing the face of professional nursing. This included the rise of home care of very sick patients. I was so adamently opposed to this idea. How could someone untrained in nursing, elderly or very young, distracted by children, living in public housing , etc., ever be expected to provide safe, adequate and high level patient care? But though I was ashamed to admit it, years later I learned that I was way off. Yes, sometimes it was a failure and the patient ended up back in the hospital or nursing home. That, however, was infrequent. Many times the care was quite adequate, many times it was far superior than anything I had ever seen in a traditional health care setting. The why to this seemed to be very simple...there was love, caring, devotion to the responsibility, and a willingness to put that loved one's needs ahead of their own. They bent over backwards learning new and complicated procedures when necessary, but for the most part the care was simple and common sense allowed them to meet the individual's needs far better than someone who did not know the patient as well. The patient was not just another patient to them------it was someone they loved. If something came up they could not handle, help was a phone call away and no one hesitated to ask for it when needed. That is what happens in most good homeschool families. No one knows these children better, no one cares more, no one is as willing to die to themselves and put the child first as a good parent. If the parent sees the child struggling in a way they cannot help, they know that help is a phone call away. I was willing to eat my words and admit that home care was a viable option. Most public school teachers feel the same way about homeschools in my experience. When my oldest was in public school, I volunteered 3 days a week . It was the same 5 or 6 parents showing up all the time. Many kids behaved in ways that showed they had poor guidance at home. They were often disrespectful, didn't do the work and got mad when they were held accountable, were ungrateful at times . How can teachers see this kind of thing day after day, year after year and expect these same parents to take on the job of effective teaching? Of course, the truth is these parents wouldn't and couldn't. Not all families can do home nursing care either. But not all parents are bad parents. I don't believe for a minute that public school teachers feel threatened by us in general. Not many of us could do what they do.......but, some of them can't do what we do either. I do think they are fed a line by many teacher's unions and if you hear something often enough it begins to sound like fact. So live and let live. Most teachers are wonderful, self-sacrificing individuals, caring, great role models and terribly unappreciated. The ones that are not should be somewhere other than a classroom. But there are some homeschooling parents who should quit that as well. So people are people. PS--It was a public school teacher who told me I could homeschool, told me it was best for my oldest, and the principal who held my hand and said if I ever needed anything....they would be there. My oldest is now a college graduate. And when my youngest was born later, with special needs....those same public school teachers and principal were a great support and my cheerleading section. His special needs assessor and I shared ideas, fears, successes, and mutual respect. We need to approach each person we meet in life as an individual and not prejudge them.