| For any number of reasons you might want to | | | | I have loved using an accredited home school |
| take your child out of a public school and teach | | | | program. It has bonded me much closer to my |
| them at home. Maybe you are hesitating because, | | | | daughter because we spend so much time |
| while you feel it's important for your child, you | | | | together and we talk so much! After she |
| don't know where to begin. In time these fears | | | | completes a module, we sit down together and |
| can be overcome and you'll do just great teaching | | | | decide on the next subjects. While she is getting a |
| your kids. One alternative is starting with a | | | | comprehensive study program, the curriculum is |
| program that is more structured. You might try | | | | supervised by me! |
| an accredited home school program. | | | | One of the things I have come to really love is |
| You might feel that, even though you want to | | | | the flexibility of scheduling. My daughter normally |
| take your son or daughter out of a public school, | | | | studies four to five hours a day. I try to keep |
| you still want them to have the study courses | | | | that between 10 am and 3 pm, and by far most |
| they would have received there. An accredited | | | | days that's just what we do. But when something |
| homeschool program can do this. Your child would | | | | comes up, we adjust! That four or five hours can |
| study material either sent to them or delivered on | | | | be done anytime day or night, and not just |
| line. This might be largely a course of self study | | | | Monday to Friday. Another thing: Using an |
| with parental supervision. | | | | accredited homeschool program can also provides |
| One of my daughter's best friends suffered a | | | | you the benefit of saving a significant amount of |
| long illness last year. She had to stay at home and | | | | money by removing transportation costs from |
| in bed for over 5 months. During this time she | | | | your list of expenses. |
| was in a home study program. But her studies | | | | My daughter has come out of her shell and has |
| were assigned by the school and supervised by | | | | flourished since we enrolled her in an accredited |
| her teachers. My daughter's accredited home | | | | home school program. She no longer is nervous |
| school program is different because even though | | | | and upset over the idea of going to school. Even |
| she has interaction with some teachers, I have | | | | in our rural community we are concerned about |
| the supervision, not a school. | | | | gang violence and drugs in the school. When I |
| You might wonder what age a child would enroll in | | | | hear some of the things her girl friends have to |
| an accredited homeschool program. The answer is | | | | contend with, well, it makes me shiver. I don't |
| all the way from preschool through graduation of | | | | want to turn my back on our public school |
| high school. Children can be supervised in a | | | | system, but I care first about my own child's well |
| structured curriculum by their parents in the | | | | being. |
| comfortable surroundings of their home. | | | | |