Which one is cheaper home school or regular school?

Question

give me some websites for homeschool!!!!!!!

Answer 1

HS can be cheaper if you want or need it to be and regular school certainly is far from free. For us I expect HS will turn out more expensive because of all the extra trips and activities but I'm not doing it to be cheap, I'm doing it so my daughter gets a better education.  

Answer 2

We found homeschooling to be cheaper....regular schools nickel and dime you to death.

http://www.homefires.com/articles/shoest...

All the best.

Answer 3

Since you have to pay school taxes whether you have a child in school or not, regular school is cheaper.  If you homeschool, I guess you can get the textbooks from the school district, but you'd probably have to buy your own supplies.

And, please, teachers are educated, trained professionals.  Not everyone knows how to teach.  Unless someone is really brilliant and can teach varied subject, he/she shouldn't homeschool anyone.  

Answer 4

I'm one of those educated, trained professionals that Bookish talks about. I have a BA in Elementary Education, aka crowd control. Teaching children at just a bit higher than their current level in a one-on-one situation is considered educational best practice, but it only happens with home-schoolers and private tutors. You do not need to be brilliant in every subject. I've never met one teacher who was.

To answer your question, I have a collection of resource links on my blog for both free and pay educational materials. (See link below) You should also investigate whether your state has a virtual charter school. That's like home-schooling but with someone else writing the lesson plans and correcting the tests. And if they are charter schools, they're even cheaper than the public schools which require school clothes, school supplies, activity fees, etc. They're completely free.

Answer 5

You can be home-schooled through your school. That's what I did. A teacher/counselor was my home-school teacher.

Answer 6

That depends.  By the time you add up school clothes and shoes, school supplies and a book bag, lunch money, canteen money, and those interminable fund-raisers, "free" public school can be quite expensive!

OTOH, homeschoolers have gotten quite a good education with a math book and a library card!  [Internet access you'll have at home anyway, whichever school option you do, so that doesn't count.  Taxes you have to pay anyway, so that doesn't count.]  Now, if you get into buying the pricey pre-packaged curriculum brand new, you can spend hundreds of dollars before you even get started, but even those (Abeka and Bob Jones) can often be found online used for very reasonable prices.

The two least expensive "boughten" curricula I have found are Christian Light Education and Rod & Staff.  The CLE is mostly workbooks, but the R&S is mostly hardbacked textbooks.  Both are very thorough!  Also, Christian Liberty Academy is quite reasonable.

Answer 7

Well, when you homeschool you sometimes have to buy your own textbooks, videos, software, workbooks, lab supplies, or what ever else you need for the class you want to take. However, a lot of the things you'll use can be found free over the internet or at the library, and there are homeschool cooperative groups that will provide a lot for you as well.

There are a lot of things you DON'T have to worry about paying for when you're homeschooling that you would otherwise have to spend money on if your kids were in public school.

Specific school supplies that probably will get lost or just not used

Tissues for the classroom

Lots of new clothes. Homeschoolers typically don't need to spend as much on back to school clothes shopping as there's no dress code and less worry about dressing like the popular kids.

New shoes for school

Gym uniform

Lab fees

Bus fare if there's no school bus

Gas if you drive the kids to school

After School Care programs if your kids stay after a lot

Yearbooks

Field trip costs

Fund raisers

Uniforms if your school uses them

Club dues if yoru kid joins any clubs. There are dues and costs involved for homeschool co op clubs or clubs and activities in the community as well though.

Backpack

School lunch

Food for bagged lunches

Water bottles for the kids to bring since they can't get a drink when ever they need one

Money for any of the extra things they often sell in the lunch room

Pictures

Yearbook

Class T shirt

Class rings

Materials for big projects that are assigned

A musical instrument if they join band

Locker fee

Gym locker fee

Replacement lock fee

...and lots more. I remember we spent A LOT on "free" public school when I was attending. We spend a lot on homeschooling as well, but I think in the long run it's less costly, and we get more for our money.  

Answer 8

Regular, I suppose.

Answer 9

it really depends - for us, regular school would be cheaper, as we spend several hundred dollars on curriculum and books, not including gas and costs for field trips.

but it is possible to homeschool basicly for free, using libraries, homeschool co-ops, internet, etc.

good luck :-)

Answer 10

Here is a lis tof free homeschool programs and the states they operate in.http://takecontrolofyoureducation.blogsp...

Homeschooling can be cheaper because you don't have all the fundraisers, clothing etc

Public school can be cheaper because homeschoolers tend to be involved in a lot of outside activities because they have more time to follow their interests.



Best of Luck!

Jana

http://www.purehomeschooling.com/