Homeschooling help for parents and children
Can someone tell me about High School homeschooling?
I’m in the 8th grade and should be heading to high school next year.
I wasn’t ready for it last year and so my mom held me back.
I need to go now and I’m planning on sticking with the homeschooling. Can you tell me about both online high school homeschooling and regular highschool home schooling? I would like to know alot about both and if you have done them, did you like them? I have heard that you need to meet once a month for online at some place to discuss your work and if you get something wrong on your work you just re answer it until you get it right. And for the regular one, I heard you need to go once a week for a full day of school. TY
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about 1 year ago
Ive been in online homeschooling for 2 years now, and like it a lot better than your average conventional school. I set my own study hours, and its a lot less stressful if you are on pace with everything. http://www.gotoiq.com is my school page… BUT you have to make yourself do the homework, which is the hard part. There isnt a teacher there telling you what to do and that is where its really hard for a lot of kids.
about 1 year ago
If you live in Illinois then you do not have to send anything in, as far as state guidelines, unless the school that you are working with online requires you to do so. Also everything you need can be done online or by ordering books online or going to your local bookstore-most will have what you need, for homeschooling. I have a son who is not quite in high school yet, however I also have several friends with children in high school home-schooling programs-they like to do the books and go online sometimes to print or work on different programs. To answer your other questions, check your state guidelines as far as having to attend 1 full day a week, and for the online answers from what I have understood that is correct, they do let you fix your answers-It was explained to me with my college administrator that if they don’t help you get the right answer, then your online classes are worthless. One other thing is that most of the worksheets online are free and printable. They also have experiments and lots of other stuff free. I hope this helps.
about 1 year ago
Regular high school homeschooling does NOT require you to meet with anybody once a week. People who are talking about that have specific programs out of their local schools that they are enrolled in, but that’s not what homeschooling is in general.
The first thing would be to find out about credits and diplomas and all that where you live. A local homeschooling support group should be able to give you more information about that. Also, are your parents willing to oversee it all? Provides marks and all that? If not, consider one of the school programs or an online program.
I’ve heard good things about http://www.k-12.com . If it’s available free where you live, it’ll give you the same education as what the public schools offer, you just get to do it at home. You might also consider checking out your local school district and not just your local high school.
about 1 year ago
I did a combination of both for a bit through http://www.keystonehighschool.com/
They have both online and offline courses. I liked the online ones more, you got more resources, and the honor classes were better. You don’t have to do anything in person there. I’ve never heard of a home school program where you did have to meet with someone. I do some of my college classes online and I never have to go anywhere, just need my laptop and internet.
about 1 year ago
The great thing about online homeschooling is you can take college classes while you’re taking high school classes. I don’t know anything about regular high school homeschooling, but I know a lot about internet, I did it. I still had teachers with internet homeschooling, but I didn’t have to turn things by certain dates or anything, I could turn it in the last day of the quarter if I wanted to. Depending on what you want to do, you can finish school a bit early, I finished a semester before most of my graduating friends, or you can finish years ahead of time, there were kids at my graduation that were 16. Like I said you can take college classes too, which makes it easier when you go to college because you’ll already have some of your credits out of the way, or you can have an associates degree by the time you graduate high school. I never had to meet with teachers or anything like that. See if your state has a program for a non traditional homeschooling program, mine did and it was the best thing I ever did.
about 1 year ago
the best homeschooling (especially highschool age) curriculum is found thru ABEKA ACADEMY. Look it up @ http://www.abeka.com
They have a DVD program that is simply wonderful!!