Homeschooling help, please?

Question

Me and my family have to decided to homeschool, and want to do it as soon as possible (we all are tired of the public school) but my school is just about to start it's spring semester so I'm trying to find an online school that will let me enroll for the remainder of this school year.

Does anyone know of any online homeschooling that lets you enroll this late, and if not what would be the best way to homeschool until i can enroll next year? Oh, I'm a sophmore and live in Texas if it helps.

Any advice is appreciated :D

Forgive me for not using 'proper' english.

Answer 1

First may I congratulate you on your decision to home school. I am sorry about the inappropriate comment that somebody made. The comments only point out that you need to be in home school. Keep in mind that you have decided to better yourself, and you are taking a momentous first step that will have a great impact on your future.

Consider that many home schools are self paced. Perhaps there are no online self paced schools, but you do not have to follow any school's guidelines any more. You can easily order a curriculum or buy one at a local store. (Usually a christian store like Mardel's in Texas) If you find that you have already mastered the material for the first half of the year skip it.

Next year you can start your work on time with the online home school as a junior if that is your wish.

Good luck, but with hard work you will not need so much.

PS I home schooled my son in Texas. Be certain to sign out with your school using the form that can be found at the Texas Home School Association, and you and your parents should not sign any document that the school presents to you.

http://www.thsc.org/Getting_Started/default.asp

Answer 2

Well, enrolling with any online school does not make you a homeschooler. Online schools are providers of 'distance education', not 'home schooling'.

True home schooling is, as others have pointed out, when you educate yourself perhaps with some input from your mum/dad (or a friend or neighbour or aunt, uncle or grandparent if they have a special talent).

There is no obligation on you to enroll with any online school (or any other 'umbrella' - type school). You're free to simply decide what you want to study; how you wish to study it; look around the library, op-shops, book stores, internet until you find text books that appeal to you and promote your learning style; and then get on with educating yourself. This is the approach that I, and my siblings, take - we don't use any bought-in material or materials provided by any outside agencies (such as online schools etc).

You can also start such a programme as late in the year as you wish.

(Oh and I wouldn't worry about what such people as the first poster say, even I (the resident pedant round these parts, lol!) know that there are times when virtually everyone slacks off on their English...doing so doesn't make one incapable of writing formal English when we so choose!)

Answer 3

To the first person to respond... I attended University of Texas at Dallas and I was the only person in my class who scored 100% on the initial assessment test for RHET 1302, and I'm foreign... I didn't learn English until I was 12, I didn't move to the US until I was 20. High school education here in Texas sucks. She might very well be (much) better off being homeschooled.

Answer 4

I don't know of any online schools that will allow you to enroll for a partial year, especially in high school; courses at that level (at any level, but especially high school) are designed to be a full course - concepts in the later months are built upon info in the earlier months.

In TX, however, you can design your own coursework with no problem. You are considered to be a private school, so you are able to buy whatever textbooks you would like to work out of (many are available at a discount through various retailers) and start working. You or your parents take care of the transcript and paperwork; everything is completely legit.

This is what I would really suggest. You will find much less red tape, you can design your own courses around your needs, and you don't need to worry about repeating work already completed or trying to pick up a course mid-stream.

JMHO!

Answer 5

I have an answer to what you are looking for. The answer is Keystone National High School. It provides online homeschooling and lets you enroll at any time of the year and you also study at your own pace. Isn't that great? huh
I am even going to enroll in their college prep progams in the next month to come.
I have listed their website below for you.
This is my email address in case you want to contact me so that we can become friends and learn together at keystone national high school: [e-mail]

Answer 6

You can use k12 (k12.com) or you can also just apply to the school, tell them you are home schooling and then use a more eclectic approach - such as doing your own learning based studies - getting a 'What to Know in XX Grade' book or any other lesson plan outline book from Barnes and Noble. and being active with your family. You don't have to use a bought curriculum to homeschool.

Answer 7

Although you want to be homeschooled and not study for a GED, there is a site that has a free study course for a GED/college prep program. You can study what you need, absolutely free, for the remainder of your sophomore year.

Free-ed.net also has other courses that you can study, like math, science, etc., in addition to the GED program. It is an excellent no-frills site. The link is below:

http://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/

I hope this is helpful.

Answer 8

Oh, I'm so glad the first poster spoke up... because we all know if she stayed in a public school her grammar and spelling would be absolutely perfect, right?

Answer 9

You would need to transfer into one not enroll

Answer 10

Have you checked out K12 site