free homeschooling - please help

[Dogbean]

Pennsylvania had a free homeschooling program...it was a charter school.

Is there any such thing in Arizona?

We want to home school our kids, but I don't want to pay for it. The way I see it, we pay horrible taxes into the public school system whether we use it or not, so if we pay for homeschooling we pay for education twice. That's not right.

 

[kingzjewel]

i think your best bet would be to look up the national homeschooling board and ask them.

 

[chrislife]

You might check out http://www.k12.com and see what they have in AZ. They work with public school systems, and it looks like it's free to the user. I haven't used it, so I don't know anything about it, but maybe it will provide options?

Also, if you are already in AZ, you might check with the local school district and see if they either have a program or can recommend one in a nearby district. A lot of districts have "test programs" that they don't announce very loudly.

You might also check out http://www.hslda.org and see what resources they have. I'd be surprised if they didn't have links to resource and info pages, some of which might list programs available in each state.

Good luck.
---Christina

 

[Talulah]

Why would you want to deprive the children in your communitity of an education? Do you want the next generation of people in your area to be under-educated with no better prospects than fast food work, just so you can "not pay twice" for your children's education? What a hateful attitude. Do you want to pay for prisions, or schools? How about, only the roads you drive on?

 

[midnightbirdgirl]

You may want to do a search for Connections Academy.
MBG

 

[midnightbirdgirl]

Why would you want to deprive the children in your communitity of an education? Do you want the next generation of people in your area to be under-educated with no better prospects than fast food work, just so you can "not pay twice" for your children's education? What a hateful attitude. Do you want to pay for prisions, or schools? How about, only the roads you drive on?

There are many reasons parents choose to Home School. Often parents are the best teachers for their children. It also may be because they want their child to have better than a public school education.
To say that these kids will wind up in prison or under-educated is very ignorant. Our tax dollars will continue to support the schools your children use and our children will have the benefit of a home education.
Your attitude is sadly very unloving. She came here to ask a question, that is all.
MBG

 

[jazzbird]

Talulah, parents who homeschool their children have to pay taxes to support the public schools whether they are using them or not. All Elevation is asking about is homeschooling that will not cost him over and above what he is already paying the public system. He is not depriving children of their own education. He's helping to fund it!

Elevation, I am a public school teacher employed by an online school in Wisconsin. I have many students in my classes who are homeschooled and take one class or more to supplement or even replace the regular homeschool curriculum. Any child in our state has access to the program. Online schooling for grade school and high school is not that wide spread right now, but you may want to look into it to see if Arizona has a program. I teach high school, but one of my church friends uses an online public gradeschool to supplement her kids' learning and she is really happy with it. It's worth looking into anyway.

 

[Solitaire]

There are many reasons parents choose to Home School. Often parents are the best teachers for their children. It also may be because they want their child to have better than a public school education.
To say that these kids will wind up in prison or under-educated is very ignorant. Our tax dollars will continue to support the schools your children use and our children will have the benefit of a home education.
Your attitude is sadly very unloving. She came here to ask a question, that is all.
MBG

I think what Talula is actually trying to say is coming from a bit of a socialist viewpoint. The point being that everybody pays a flat rate so that our society's children can be educated. Its a tax for the public good.

If you choose to not make use of public education thats all well and good (nobody is disputing your choice), but if everybody did that and demanded they therefore not be taxed for public education, the general education of the wider community would suffer. Hence what she's saying about under-educated children.

She made the same point with roads. Even if you don't drive, some of your tax dollars will end up going to road construction. But that is still fair because without good roads our society would certainly not have developed so far.

This gets into a whole realm of public interest/social policy which I'll refrain from getting into here (pet topic ) but I just wanted to point out that Talula was not attacking homeschooling (nor am I).

 

[midnightbirdgirl]

Solitare, I saw she was from America and since we do pay for all public schools whether or not we use them, that did not make sence. I hope that is what she ment.
MBG

 

[Katydid]

Ok well, there is a book out called, Homeschool your child for free. It shows you ways to save money by using the Library and other free services. Perhaps that will help.



Maybe one of these days the government will decide to let us use homeschool costs as a deduction. Until then, we will all have to pay for PS and HS.

 

[midnightbirdgirl]

Ok well, there is a book out called, Homeschool your child for free. It shows you ways to save money by using the Library and other free services. Perhaps that will help.



Maybe one of these days the government will decide to let us use homeschool costs as a deduction. Until then, we will all have to pay for PS and HS.

That is what we do.
MBG

 

[Leanna]

Public school isn't real "fair" anyway since it depends on the taxes of the area, its not like its creating some kind of social equality or opportunity. That is why the school systems are bad in urban areas (poor people, poor taxes, .... as a result poor education) and also in the small town I live in now. The high school education I received just 30 minutes from where my husband went to high school was phenomenally better than the one he and his siblings received. I am shocked that his sister THIS YEAR graduated triginometry with a grade of A and can't even explain to me the unit circle or the basis of trig. I value a good education highly, and if we still live here when my son starts kindergarten, I will be homeschooling. I would prefer to use public education for many reasons and if we can afford to move to one of several communities we have marked out as having a good education system, we will move and go to those schools instead.

All is not equal in the public school system, and I will not have my child(ren) be a victim of that.

 

[midnightbirdgirl]

Public school isn't real "fair" anyway since it depends on the taxes of the area, its not like its creating some kind of social equality or opportunity. That is why the school systems are bad in urban areas (poor people, poor taxes, .... as a result poor education) and also in the small town I live in now. The high school education I received just 30 minutes from where my husband went to high school was phenomenally better than the one he and his siblings received. I am shocked that his sister THIS YEAR graduated triginometry with a grade of A and can't even explain to me the unit circle or the basis of trig. I value a good education highly, and if we still live here when my son starts kindergarten, I will be homeschooling. I would prefer to use public education for many reasons and if we can afford to move to one of several communities we have marked out as having a good education system, we will move and go to those schools instead.

All is not equal in the public school system, and I will not have my child(ren) be a victim of that.

Well said indeed.
MBG

 

[Solitaire]

(nevermind, unneccessary post)