Is this home schooling?

Question

like this place supplies you with textbooks and a laptop and there is a online teacher. i wanna do tht me and my mom have been searching for it. is it called homeschooling?

Answer 1

Home schooling does not necessarily means that it had to be done in your own home.

Home Schooling can also means learning in your own pace - by reading books or on line.

There are many intresting books nowadays that teaches you in comic forms (more user friendly forms) compared to text books that can look daunting.

eg:  Cartoon History of the United States by Larry Gonic

        Cartoon History of the Universe 1 Vol. 1-7 by Larry Gonic

        Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May? by Jean  

        Fritz

        If You Lived At The Time Of The American Revolution

        by Kay Moore

          Who Was Albert Einstein?  by Jess Brallier  

          Who Was Amelia Earhart? by Kate Boehm Jerome  

           Cartoon Guide to Statistics  by Larry Gonick  

            The Cartoon Guide to Genetics by Larry Gonick

Because all of these are cartoons, you can read and learn without having to break a sweat!

  

The objective is learning. So why not make it fun and enjoyable ?

Best Wishes

Answer 2

No, that is doing school at home.

Doing that would still make you a public school students, and you would have to adhere to their requirements, curriculum, and schedule.

Home schooling is where you, and your parents are in charge.

They are your instructors, set the curriculum, schedule, and pick the curriculum you will be using.

Home schooling means you are responsible for your education.

Answer 3

IS THIS K12 CYBER SCHOOL????????? Im in that and it is considered homeschooling 100%!!!!!! u would like it!!! GO FOR IT!!!!!!!

BE HAPPY

~maddie

and it is completely different from real school and u dont learn about the same stuff at the same time.  u have a teacher for each subject and have to send work into tham every once in a while.  i am in agora but it is still part of the k12 school cause they use the same books!!!!

www.agora.org

Answer 4

if you learn at home by your parents its homeschooling

Answer 5

It's a type.  It's actually called distance education.

Homeschooling uses less direct tools, like software packages that you can do at your own pace and schedual.  It also allows you to cherry pick what your sources are.  You can chose from a Penn Foster this or Abeka that.

Homeschooling does not rely on outside supervision or monitoring and a scheduled program.  That is more, as I said, distance eduction which is a form of home school.  But it's not quite the homeschooling most here talk about.

Here they often call them Virtual Schools.

A few states offer these to anyone with a computer.  Free to residents, paid for those outside.

Answer 6

Yes, that would be one form of homeschooling.

Answer 7

We used Arkansas Virtual School (now ARVA) using K12 (curriculum) for 4 years for one of our 4 children. The others were homeschooled traditionally. So I have experience with the legal definitions on both sides, public virtual/charter and homeschooling - at least for Arkansas. But I think it is similar to most of the states.

In my state, the ARVA is a virtual school run by the state, so students enrolled are officially classified as public school students. You will be following public school laws, not the homeschool laws for your state. However, the students are still at home and taught by their mom, dad, or other supervisor of the parent's chosing. It still feels like homeschooling as far as the daily experience of the student goes. Moms and Dads do have some accountability to the state, but it is typically to be sure the student will complete a grade's worth of curriculum in a year's time and that the state tests are taken. It isn't excessive. Our ARVA program doesn't go beyond 8th grade, but most go all the way through to high school graduation. I am not certain how the high school level charters work. I think they have teachers that teach each course at the high school level. Our state virtual provide a computer, printer, some help with internet costs, the curriculum, and nearly all of the other materials that will be needed (paint, brushes, microscope, graduated cylinder, etc.). I think most state virtuals do the same.

I don't think Kentucky has a virtual school/academy yet. Some states are embracing them. Some are taking a wait and see approach. Others building walls to keep them out. It all just depends on the political climate of your state. You can contact K12 (www.k12.com) to see if there has been any interest in begining a virtual in your state.

If you think that you really want to do a virtual but there isn't one likely to be in place this year for your state, you can go ahead and use some or all of the K12 curriculum as a traditional homeschooler. The advantage is that if your state goes virtual, you will have already been using the same curriculum that it is likely to go with. The disadvantage is that you will have to make payment arrangements for the materials. It is a very good curriculum overall from the 4th to 7th grade levels that I personally worked with. I don't know about the other grade levels, since we didn't work with those.

K12 and a virtual isn't the only way to be educated at home. If there isn't a virtual in your state and you cannot afford K12, look into the huge selection of curriculum available. Most of it is very good and at reasonable prices (especially if you buy used texts). Good luck on your endeavor!

Answer 8

This is a cyber school, there are many different companies and schools that offer these.  It is one form of homeschooling.  K12 is one cyber school that many people use; if it offers a school in your state, then it would fit what you've described.

Not all cyber schools furnish you with a computer.  That branch of K12 is part of the public school system (or affiliated with it) and is able to offer you use of the computer through school funding.  Other programs, you pay for everything but often get more choices in your classes.