Ive heard the is a way you can check online. There is a list of schools that are lagitamit. Im looking in2 home schooling and I dont want to be scammed. Any body know of any really good home schools?
My daughter is in sixth grade and she is doing terrible. It seems that the teachers in her school either do not care or do not know how to teach. They send home homework that has not even been gone over. We are left trying to figure it all out. I have been giving home schooling alot of thought and I don't know if we can afford for me to stay home and do this. Also, in NY State do you have to pay school taxes if your child is being home schooled? Does anyone have any answers?
ok so i am on my way on making up my mind on home schooling, but the question is how, where do you start? do they still have to wait till they are 5, anyone with answers to this would be of great help! i just want the best for my kids and i believe that i can do that through home schooling.
thank you everyone, i am actualy going to copy all of these answers and go to all of the web sites. i can only pick one answer as the best but all of the answers were helpful, thank you!
I am righting a story, and I don't know where they would go to school. Like, does the foster home have its own teachings, like home schooling? Or do they go to their city's school district?
Foster homes, as in like an adoption center. Where kids wait for people to take thm into their care..
I am supposed to be getting the papers to sign up for home schooling in the mail some time soon but school starts back in a week and I do not know what to do because i really do not want to go back to school 
i feel trapped in the school system and want to get a real education so that i can prepare myself for going out on my own, but my parents aren't into the home-schooling idea since they don't want to "teach" me or have me teach myself. since they don't like the school system very much either, they said they'd be open to the idea of taking me out of school, but only if i found an alternative that they could work with. so here i am. are there any other alternative schooling programs that i can do?
I'm a home schooled 9th grader and i plan on home schooling all through high school, and I was wondering how do things like prom work? I watched my older sister going to prom and i want to make sure i get to do the same. What are my options while still being homeschooled? Does any one else have the same question as me?
plz no haters or rude comments, public school is just dandy but this is my best option so plz dont say go to public school
thanks so much every1
I am 17 years old, and I can legally drop out of school without a parents permission. So if i can do that, can i sign myself up for home schooling with out a parents consent?
I don't get it, why it is that so many parents that home school their kid’s trash school kids.
I'm 14 and I've been home schooled all my life and I hear a lot of home school parents trash schooled kids just because they go to school. They make it sound like that just because they go to school their automatically going to use drugs, drink alcohol, smoke, have sex, curse, cut themselves, use anorexia or bulimia, shoplift, etc...
Now I know of home schoolers who have lost their virginity, cut themselves, curse, shoplifted, and used anorexia and bulimia. (I'm not saying that all home schoolers do that, and not all school kids do that either)
Me I have used bulimia and still using it, I'm treated different because I'm home schooled, I don't know multiplication (I'm suppose to be in 8th grade) And I don't have that many friends. What makes home schooling so great and why do home school parents trash schooled kids?
Home school families only please.
Many times I read answers that sound pretty defensive instead of just factual, and "real".
I came on this forum with the intention of exchanging information, discuss home schooling issues, and maybe help answer some questions for a family who is just starting their home school journey.
Is it so hard to admit that at times home schooling is difficult, exhausting, and that on occasion we doubt ourselves too?
Trust me we would not have it any other way, and neither would our children; so please explain to me; without getting defensive, why some of the questions/statements push the "let me tell you" button, knowing full well know that that is their goal?.
Yes, unfortunately I too have fallen into that trap myself several times.
So does it really matter what others believe, and if so why?
My family is very passionate about home schooling, we believe in our way of life, and the God given directive to educate our children.
We see the positive effects of home schooling not only in our own children, but also in many other home school families in our area.
I have at times answered questions more defensively than I would have liked as well, that is why I do understand the reactions to some of the questions.
The point I am trying to make is that we can combat ignorance, and educate other families on the benefits, as well as give factual answers about home schooling without lowering ourselves to the level of the home school detractors who are, as some pointed out are just all to happy to keep up their rhetoric.
However by making some of the answers sound like counter attacks, or using less than flattering language we are not always helping to improve the situation.
Thanks for taken the time to answer so many questions to help people, I think it's awesome.