Government School and Home Schooling

[GilpinGuy]

So we got the email today that read that there will be no "in person learning" at our local government school until further notice. It will be "home learning" instead. I love how they put it. "Home learning". I guess "home schooling" was taken.

After doing the total horseshit make believe of "home learning" in the spring, and the fact that his excellency the governor hasn't deemed me "essential" enough to go back to work, real home schooling is the obvious choice. We're not 100% in on this yet, but man with the way things are going, I don't see a way around it. We'll make ends meet somehow.

Who home schools and where should someone start as far as resources to begin? My youngest is 7 (2nd grade) and the oldest is 15 (10th grade). Just really getting serious about this today, so any info would be awesome. I know there are some on here that home school. Thanks.

(Man, I deleted a TON of ranting, cursing and blowing off steam)

[Mazin]

I have a friend whos a teacher, let me reach out to her and see what resources she has to give. I also seem to remember a feee online school commercial i saw recently, I will try to find it again.

[hurley842002]

Good luck in your quest Gilpin, things are trending that way here as well, fortunately my wife isn?t working (COVID threw a wrench in that plan). I really worry for my kids education, my wife isn?t a teacher, and if I?m being honest, kind of a pushover when it comes to the boys. Guess we will see what happens.


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[mbl]

We are in the same boat. The last part of last year was a complete joke and my boys did not learn anything new. At best, they maintained what they had already learned. My wife and i looked at this very carefully and have made the decision to formally home school. I saw this decision coming for a long time. We are fortunate that we have many family friends/neighbors who already do it, and my wife does not work.

In addition to the "home learning" joke, I am extremely concerned with the public school curriculum and have just this week read about CO districts "rewriting" the history components. In my opinion, Home Schooling gives the kids a significantly higher quality education, reinforced by test results. It also allows us to integrate a christian perspective into the education plan.

Message me if you want to discuss or get details on the program that we chose. Good luck on what you chose. I think that the public system is collapsing and there is going to be a massive education gap in the future that will impact all aspects of the future USA.

[Irving]

We haven't home schooled, but going through the fiasco of the end of okay year showed me that without a strict schedule, things tend to really fall apart. For everyone, not just the kids.

[CS1983]

Beware that almost all, if not all, reputable homeschooling programs are sold out and back ordered.

Based on extensive research including the curricula, methods, and personal experiences of both others and my wife (who was homeschooled from 6-12th grade), the two "best" right now are:

1) Memoria Press
2) The Good and The Beautiful

Look into: https://hslda.org/post/how-to-comply...homeschool-law

You can download the entire 2nd level The Good and the Beautiful Language Arts books on PDF: https://www.goodandbeautiful.com/fre...-arts-level-2/

There's plenty on YT to put together the other courses while you wait on your books to arrive for whatever actual company you go with.

As for the 15 year old, again, YT has a wealth of knowledge and you will just need to either bite the bullet on a course or ad hoc it in the interim.

[thedave1164]

HSLDA is a good resource and worth supporting

homeschooling can be as conventional or unconventional as you decide to make it.

Ours is somewhat structured, we use a program called ACE, it is a Christian based curriculum.

Some people use many different bits and pieces .

I would wager there is a local homeschool group in your area as well, they can also be a great resource.

[Great-Kazoo]

while not a parent any longer of school age kids. Down here the people with kids are forming, or have formed somewhat of a home schooling co-op.
Fortunately a reasonable portion of them have been home schooling, for a few years. Now assisting those in the area, newer to it.

See if there's something like that near you.

If not the members here who do home school, are not novices and hopefully help when and if you have issues.


Good luck. I would ask those who are in the same position as your family. What has the county & state said about school tax reimbursement? Or credits applied for every month not in school.

[colorider]

The last thing the schools are interested in is a quality education for our kids. It’s appalling. If fully disgusted with Jeffco and their so called “hybrid” plan. It’s a fucking joke. Planned to fail. They have ZERO interest in the kids going back to a classroom and are just going through the steps. My son is starting high school and won’t even have his schedule until the 19th. School starts on the 24th. No mention if he will even be able to see where the fuck to go before “in school learning” starts. Give me a break.

[CS1983]

The last thing the schools are interested in is a quality education for our kids. It’s appalling. If fully disgusted with Jeffco and their so called “hybrid” plan. It’s a fucking joke. Planned to fail. They have ZERO interest in the kids going back to a classroom and are just going through the steps. My son is starting high school and won’t even have his schedule until the 19th. School starts on the 24th. No mention if he will even be able to see where the fuck to go before “in school learning” starts. Give me a break.

They've never been interested in a quality education.



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Both the video and link are featuring and/or written by John Taylor Gatto. He was named New York City Teacher of the Year in 1989, 1990, and 1991, and New York State Teacher of the Year in 1991. He then quit and set about to expose the travesty that is modern education.