Do and should parents receive money for homeschooling their children?
Category: education
Can I Hire Someone to Homeschool My Child?
Homeschooling has been on an upswing as the pandemic unearthed issues with schools that have previously gone unnoticed because people never questioned sending their children away from home every day to be taught by other people. Many parents also realized …
Review of Torchlight Curriculum level 1
I used Torchlight level 1 with my daughter this year for her first grade curriculum. We followed the provided schedule, but throughout the year, Day 1 did not correspond to Monday every week, if we had field trips or other …
Was ist Homeschooling?
Viele Kinder in der ganzen Welt gehen seit einem Jahr nicht mehr 5 Tage die Woche in die Schule. Coronavirus hat Schulen in vielen Ländern monatelang geschlossen und den Unterricht in die virtuelle Welt geschoben. Aber ist das wirklich Homeschooling?
Is “homeschool” just “school at home”?
Most of us have a pretty standard picture of what “school” is supposed to look like. Whether you look at a classroom from 1935 in Austria or more recently in the US, you would immediately be able to identify similarities. …
Can I start homeschooling in the middle of the year?
The short answer is “yes”. If for some reason, school is not working for your family anymore, you have the right to make a change. There is no deadline by which you have to have decided to homeschool. Think about it …
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Is it better to use an accredited curriculum?
Many people have heard that buzzword “accreditation” before, but have no idea what that actually means. Private schools often advertise with their accreditation credentials, while public schools rarely mention it. In fact, the public high school I graduated from lost …
How do we re-enroll in school?
Many families made the decision to homeschool their children during the last year due to the pandemic. Now that hope of a return to normalcy is on the horizon with vaccines becoming available, a large percentage of emergency homeschoolers may …
Op-Eds
While all of the articles on this page reflect my opinion, the articles linked below are specific responses to homeschooling issues raised in the media. COVID-schooling is not Homeschooling Response to “The Risks of Homeschooling” Response to NPR 1A-How should we …
Review of Singapore Primary Math Standards Edition
I used Singapore Primary Math Standards Edition 1 with my daughter during her kindergarten year.
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