Does anyone know anything about the "Virtual Homeschool International" ??

Question

Is it an actual homeschooling site? with grades and everything? or is it just a fake school to get your money?

all answers welcome =]

Answer 1

I took a look at the site. Itis a resource, not so much a school. Basically what this homeschooling family is doing is taking free internet sites and resources in the public domain and assembling them into a curriculum that you would teach or your student(s)s would follow. . The curriculum scope and sequence follows the World Book Encyclopedia's suggested scope and sequence. They said that they do add some original worksheets in and there are some texts available through them that are not available anywhere else.

There are many curriculum providers doing this in one form or another. The Robinson Curriculum and A2 do this as well except in the instance of Robinson the material has been scanned from real books and put onto CD. Most of those resources are now available digitally online.

Is it worth the money? They are not charging much. I think it was about $20/year. They have done the legwork of assembling the links to free material on the net. You could create a curriculum like this yourself for free. It just depends on if you feel the annual fee is worth it being done for you. Is the curriculum a quality one? Mmmmm, they keep too much of it secret behind the sign-in screen to tell. If you feel the small annual fee wouldn'y be missed if it didn't live up to expectations and you don't have time for the legwork yourself to locate all these free sites, then give it a try. You may get enough of a feel for it after a few weeks or months to know if it is a good fit.

Answer 2

Have you tried "looking it up?" It's not going to cost you any money unless you leave a cc # or enter into a paypal agreement.

So "yahoo it" or "google it."

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