How do I go about starting my son with home schooling?

Question

I did call his school and they danced around the subject.

Answer 1

The first thing you need to do is find out your state’s laws.

http://www.hslda.org/laws/default.asp

Then you can choose a homeschooling method.

http://www.successful-homeschooling.com/...

Then choose a curriculum. Some good providers are:

http://www.abeka.com

http://www.bjupress.com

http://www.aop.com

http://www.aceministries.com

http://www.rodandstaffbooks.com

http://www.k12.com

Some good literature based or unit study methods are:

http://www.sonlight.com

http://www.winterpromise.com

http://www.fiarhq.com/

http://www.mfwbooks.com/

The link below has some additional helpful information that should take you through the entire process.

Answer 2

Contact his school and your local education board I suppose?

Good luck with it all!

Answer 3

There is no need to contact the school board because they are public education and homeschooling is non-public education.  I contacted our school only because I wanted copies of records.  In our state, we send letter to Dept. of non-public education.  They send us a card and we start reading, writing and learning whatever we want to learn.

Answer 4

In addition to hslda as a starting point...

Look for homeschool support groups in your area...

Just do a search such as "mytown, mycounty homeschool support group" and you will probably find them.

Contact them.  Get involved. Ask them questions.  They will be glad to help you.

Answer 5

Check out www.hslda.org and see what the laws are in your state. Take it from there.