Canadian Online Home Schooling?

Question

Okay so im trying to convince my mom about getting me home schooled. Both my parents have full-time jobs, and would not be able to be my teachers.

This is why I have desided on online Home Schooling. I need to know how much it would cost, and i want to start asap. Which mean only 4 months of school left in the school year. So can i start during the year, and for only 4 months?

Also, I live in Canada, so if anyone can give me a link to some canadian homeschooling links, that would be awesome!!!

Also, I'm in grade 8, and have completed grade 7, I am not dumb, or super smart, just average for grade 8.

I really want to be home schooled, i've been to guidance councelors, and all that, and haven't changed my mind.

P.S - I just want to be home schooled for the rest of this year, i will go to public school for grade 9. But this is the end of the year, and i can't be absent for the whole 4 months, and i can't change schools, Im not staying at the same school i'm at right now.thanks

Answer 1

First of all, where are you?

Secondly, unless there's an online program in your province, you could have a problem switching to an online program at this time of year. Not only will it not necessarily match up with what you are doing (not all provinces study the same thing at the same time), but what you would do in the online school might not match up at all with what you'd be expected to do for the next 4 months and could mess up your gr. 9 year.

More to the point, I've never heard of an online public school program in Canada (at least not in my province, Alberta) accept a jr. high student at this time of year. Half the year's curriculum has been covered in the way they determined, which as I said, won't match up with what you've done in school. Registration is pretty much for summer start at the earliest, or for September. And any private program (that you'd have to pay for; public school programs are free unless you are using one out-of-province) is going to be a waste of time since it REALLY won't match up with what you'd be doing in school--it wouldn't even be Canadian.

Is there no way to do an at-home program through your school? You go in once a week to meet with teachers or something? I just don't see how it's possible to do an online program at this point. You might want to consider other alternatives for a solution to your school problems.

Answer 2

Maybe this link will help:

http://www.hslda.ca/

Good luck!