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Homeschooling for free?
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Question:
If anyone knows of a school online or correspondence courses that are free,
please write. There is very little money, and our town does not really have
anything for this! We do have a high school online here, but my daughter is too
young for that.
Answer:
-searching for (though I suspect it had something to do with phonetics or
helping dyslexic children very early) and I came upon a free site with
downloadable lessons. I think I've seen more than one. If I can find
them, so can you.
-This site comes highly recommended by several on my homeschool e-mail
loop . . .
http://amblesideonline.homestead.com/
-I'm a strong supporter of homeschooling and I know that socialization
and independent thought aren't really issues, not the way the other
posters wants them to be. It should also be noted that religion is
no longer the #1 motivator among homeschooling families. Things
have changed a lot.
And yes, homeschooling CAN be better. Homeschooling SHOULD be
better all things considered.
But not all homeschooling is better - and nothing in the original
poster's post gave me much confidence about the situation there.
Of course, I'm being judgemental via a website without all the facts.
If the local school is worse than a series of correspondence courses,
then perhaps the correspondence courses are the way to go.
-The last couple of parents who have discussed how they were "homeschooling"
their kids with me have described something that was not all that different
than a smaller version of regular old school.
I'm starting to realize that in some cases "homeschool" is just a small,
private, unregulated school.
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