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Help for Homeschool Beginners Help for New Homeschoolers If you’ve decided to homeschool but aren’t sure what your first steps should be, you’ll want to read this brief article on Getting Started. You don’t have to teach your children every subject at once–that’s a recipe for overwhelming you and them! Instead, focus on the core subjects, which you... -
Help for Homeschool Beginners Telling All Your Relatives When Susan Wise Bauer’s grandparents heard that little Susie and her siblings were going to be home schooled, they wept. What would become of their grandchildren? they wondered. Other relatives chimed in with such supportive advice as, “Isn’t home schooling illegal?” “Is the Department of Education going to raid your...
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Help for Homeschool Beginners Home Educated Students Who Turned Out Just Fine These are just a few of the many, many successful people who were wholly or partly educated at home. Keep this list on hand for when your parents or in-laws wonder out loud if home educating your children is a dead end. Thomas Edison–invented the light bulb Lewis Carroll–author of...
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Help for Homeschool Beginners What About Socialization? As soon as you tell your neighbors/friends/family that you’re home schooling, you’ll get the big question…. “But what about social development? Won’t keeping them out of school hinder their socialization?” This is the most ridiculous question ever. No, seriously. We mean it. According to the dictionary, socialization is “the process...
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Forms, Regulations, & Record-Keeping Notifying Your Local School Once you’ve decided to home school, your first official task will be notifying your local school board of your intent. State and local regulations differ (see Home School Regulations for links to official Department of Education websites), but in almost all localities, notification has two parts: 1. File a notice...
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Forms, Regulations, & Record-Keeping Home Schooling Regulations Home education is legal in all U.S. states and territories and in all Canadian provinces. Notification and testing requirements differ from state to state. Visit the U.S. Department of Education Regulation Map for a clickable map providing links to official government pages for all states and territories. The following links provide...
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Help for Homeschool Beginners What is Home Schooling? Home schooling occurs when parents take charge of their children’s education — organizing subjects, teaching lessons or arranging for tutors, evaluating progress, and supervising social contacts. Home school parents believe that one-on-one attention and individualized study produce the best education possible. (Many also think that peer groups are NOT necessarily...