Another home school option - ColoCA

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With all the discussions about home schooling I thought I’d post info on one we’ve had success with, Colorado Connections Academy. There are a few like this in Colorado I’m just presenting our experience with this particular one. It’s basically a public/home school option, the curriculum is based on the state requirements and all material is provided for you, there is also an assigned ‘remote’ teacher for each child. Once per week there was a class Webex meeting and once every week or every other week the parents and child talk with the teach. More often if needed and we found the teacher to be very responsive when we had questions.

When our Daughter started 2^nd grade it was only 2 weeks in that her teacher (Douglas County) gave us a list of drugs she recommended for kids with ADD (our daughter is not hyperactive or disruptive at all but has trouble paying attention when she’s not interested, who doesn’t). That did it for us, we met with the teach on Thursday and on Monday we had her enrolled in ColoCA. It was a great experience for her and she really enjoyed it. We went back to public school this year but next year we’re probably going to put both of our kids in ColoCA.

This isn’t for everyone, if you’re OK with teaching the primary curriculum and supplementing it with topics of your choice it’s a great option. A school day typically took 3 hours and left a lot of time for other topics and things like field trips, vacations (pheasant hunting ), etc. Another benefits is that you can do it from anywhere as long as you have an internet connection.

Like traditional home schooling you get out what you put into it.

I have my son in K-12/cova, it was a little hard adjusting to the fact that we have so much more freedom! Travel, staying up late, waking up when we want, etc....... he spends a shit load more time with me and goes to work with me as well...... It does take some discipline though, to get the work done.