Does anyone no any info on home schooling your child on the computer?

Question

My son wants to be homeschooled on the computer and well to me it's oout of the question but if I ever considered I wanted to know if anyone knew how it was done and how much money? All answers appreaciates thanks!

Answer 1

For a free program, try http://www.k12.com/homeschool

Best of Luck to You!

Jana

http://www.purehomeschooling.com

http://www.summerhouseliving.com

Answer 2

If you live in PA, there are 11 public cyber schools where students can take classes online.  Here's a group for more info:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PACyberSch...

(It'll be cut off when this posts, group name is PACyberSchooling)

Also, search group.yahoo.com for "home school" and "cyber school" for more info.

My son's in a PA cyber (www.palcs.org) and we're very happy with the school

Answer 3

I doubt its even Legal so I doubt you will find any.. You can pay for private tuition but he must attend school...

It may be legal in America but I assure you its not in Most of Europe...By law in the UK and Ireland for starts it is illegal not to sent your kid to school...

Answer 4

Homeschooling is legal in all 50 states.   You need to check the specific laws for your state from the Homeschool Legal Defense website.

We use the computer for much of our schooling.

Many times we just get an interesting subject from conversation, radio, or television.    My son does a search online to give more information on the subject.   Page after page are available for anything you want or need to learn.

You can find audio/video lectures, online interactives, suggested reading for material that can be found at your local public library, and hundreds of related articles that can be found online.

Basically, this type of education costs the amount of your computer, your online connection and gas for library trips.    

Answer 5

Use switched on schoolhouse. Its a program you do on a computer. Its very easy also. I am doing it for my senior year. I am almost done.

Answer 6

There are private (fee-paying) schools and public (free at the point of delivery) schools available online worldwide. Try running a search for such terms as 'distance education', 'cyber school', 'online school', 'virtual school' along with the name of your state/country.  

Homeschooling is absolutely legal throughout the world (apparently it is illegal in Germany (or rather school attendance is compulsory there - all thanks to Adolf Hitler), altho there are still homeschooling groups and homeschooling organisations in Germany; go figure!).

Doing school online isn't homeschooling tho (although it still goes at home), it is Distance Education. If you were to go ahead and enrol him in an online school, your son would not (legally) be homeschooled; he would still be a public or private school student (depending on the status of the online school he's enrolled with).

He'd be no different from any other schoolchild who physically goes out the door every morning and gets on the bus in order to attend a b&m (bricks & mortar) school ('cept he wouldn't have to ride the bus to get to school every morning...or to get home again in the afternoon).

(That whole 'kids have to go to school'-thing is pretty much the premier urban myth. Even in Eastwoodelvis's hometown of Dublin, RoI, home-education is happening, has been happening for years and is happening ever widely and with ever increasing popularity.)

***EDIT @ EastwoodElvis:

Firstly, thanks for proving my point so well, *smile*.

Second, try checking ARTICLE 42 of THE (IRISH) CONSTITUTION, esp. the following clauses:

1. "The State acknowledges that the primary and natural educator of the child is the Family and guarantees to respect the inalienable right and duty of parents to provide,

according to their means, for the religious and moral, intellectual, physical and social education of their children".

2. "Parents shall be free to provide this education in their homes or in private schools or in schools recognised or established by the State".

3.1 "The State shall not oblige parents in violation of their conscience and lawful preference to send their children to schools established by the State, or in any particular type of school designated by the State".

Or the site of the HOME EDUCATION NETWORK (IRELAND) @ http://www.henireland.org/he_ireland.htm...

Similarly, the BRITISH GOVERNMENT (in its own guidelines, see below for URL) states:

2. Parents have a right to educate their children at home.

2.1 The responsibility for a child’s education rests with their parents. In England, education is compulsory, but school is not.

The parental right to home-educate their own children is enshrined in SECTION 7 of the EDUCATION ACT 1996 (if you wish to look it up).



Furthermore, THE BRITISH GOVT cites ARTICLE 2 of PROTOCOL 1 of the EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS as further support for a parent's right to home-educate.

The UK GOVERNMENT even PUBLISHES its OWN DOCUMENTS in SUPPORT OF HOMESCHOOLING so it can hardly be 'illegal' (!), for example: http://www.dfes.gov.uk/localauthorities/...

Rather handy - that it IS legal - considering that, in England alone, there are estimated to be at least FIFTY THOUSAND SCHOOL-AGED KIDS who're being taught at home by their parents; in some areas, it is 1 in 30 school-aged kids currently being educated at home.



Or take a peek at:

http://www.education-otherwise.org/

http://www.oxfordhomeschooling.co.uk

http://www.primaryhomeeducation.co.uk/

http://www.briteschool.co.uk

or any of the million and one other 'home educating in the UK' webpages out there!

(All emphasis' are mine)

School attendance is only compulsory if, & for as long as, the child's name appears on a school register. As long as the child has been properly de-registered (or never registered at a school), there is no obligation on parents to send their kids to school.

Similarly, a parent can only be prosecuted for allowing their child to truant (which I reckon is where you're most likely getting confused!) *IF* the child's name appears on a school register.

Legally, it is impossible for a child to truant - and, therefore, impossible for the parent to 'fail to ensure regular school attendance' - when that child is not registered at school.