does calvert home schooling offer a high school program without using plato program and using books only?
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Calvert does not have highschool.\n\na highschool age homeschooler can use an online highschool, tutors or community college courses, among other items.
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Why not take advantage of the fact that they are young enough to reprogram them out of the typical "one size fits all cookie cutter" approach to learning? Have you looked into other methods along the home-schooling spectrum? I would pick up a few good books about home schooling elementary aged children and start getting creative instead of relying solely (if at all) on a packaged curriculum.
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I don't know if you are a Christian or not, but A Beka is one of the curriculum companies that is most widely used and recognized. Their materials might be a little more costly than others, but the methods and knowledge foundation in its curriculum is outstanding. A nice feature is that it is done in "bite size" pieces in segmented paperback texts rather than a huge text. They also do a great job of relating the education to real-life (much better than secular public education). Whether or not the Christian aspect is important to you, check it out. Their books are available in most Christian bookstores or direct. Some may be available used through eBay or companies like Follett Educational Services. The used ones are hard to come by because they are paperback.\n\nI have no realtionship with the company, but used to work for Follett. I know from my experience of talking with educators that there is nothing better, unless you are atheist or of other religious persuassion. \n\nAlso, many homeschoolers form organizations with-in their community to network for the social and other group aspects as well as comparing notes on teaching methods and materials. One homeschool team formed by such a group even won a state championship in a Battle of the Books competition in North Carolina (competing against public school peers).\n\nHere's a website by a homeschooler from your state. It would be a good starting point. http://www.leapingfromthebox.com/\n\nAnd some others:\n\nhttp://alabamahomeschooling.com/\n\nhttp://northalabamahomeeducators.freeservers.com/support.html\n\nhttp://www.abeka.com/\n\nhttp://www.fes.follett.com/
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I agree with the previous answer about American School as I also used them. However, it is not necessary. I have plenty of other home school friends who were able to get into college without an "official" diploma. The best thing to do is research the college you are interested in and find out their acceptance policy. Some colleges are friendlier to homeschoolers than others.
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What do you mean by sps? Seattle Public Schools? Springfield Public Schools? The Society of Physics Students? (LOL).\n\nIf you are asking about the curriculum package called "Everyday Math," it was probably adopted the way any other curriculum package gets adopted.\n\nRight now my school is using it, and I think it is one of the worst programs ever invented for regular ed. It confuses the heck out of most of the kids, does NOT align to state standards and benchmarks, and does not adapt to different student learning needs and styles. It also expects 6 year olds to have full ability in abstract reasoning skills.\n\nIt supposedly was designed by taking special education math strategies and "spiraling" (where you circle around through a set of skills, doing something a little more difficult each time you come back to each skill). However, in special education, we don't teach ALL the methods to every kid...we hunt through the different methods to find what works best for each kid, and only teach that kid one or two ways of finding the answers based on what works best for him/her. The variety of methods are for the teacher's toolkit, not for each individual child to know all of them. Also, the "spiral" is circled through once every couple of months, to taking up to a full year for one circle in special education. Once again, this speed is based on the student's needs, not a program's set packaging.\n\nEveryday Math attempts to teach EVERY method of solving problems to ALL the students, and cycles through the "spiral" every two weeks to a month. It is too fast, and doesn't allow kids the time to build confidence and mastery in a particular skill.\n\nIt IS a good program for students gifted in math, and I WOULD recommend it for gifted Enrichment programs. However, when used, it should be with 1:1 or small-group guidance to ensure that the child doesn't focus on the paperwork rather than the thought process.
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Try http://www.k12.com\nThis one is expensive, but very high quality. I use it with one of my homeschooled children. Much of the curriclum is delivered directly via the online school and the lesson planning/scheduling tools are fantastic! The parent is still the primary instructor.\n\nIf the main reason you are looking into online homeschooling is that you wish to have a teacher do the teaching, you have a broader array of options than just online curriculum. Abeka has a video-based homeschool version of its curriculum. The students watch the videoa of real classroom teachers. With yet another option the student sends thier work in to the teacher for grading and all student records are maintained by the school. \n\nHere are some additional video or computer-based curriculums and supplements:\n\nVideotext Algebra. This series of video modules will take the student from introductory algebra through algebra II. The series has been donated to our homeschool lending library, but we have not used it personally.\n\nDIVE CD-ROMs for Saxon Algebra and for several of the major science curriculums. We have used the DIVE supplement to the Saxon Advanced Mathematics textbook. It provides a computerized whiteboard demonstration of a teacher working through the example problems. It does not give the whiteboard solutions to every problem in the text. There is a new video curriculum out that works out every problem's solution, but I have not been able to remember the name of it. Some internet research might turn it up for you.\n\nCybered - Most of the science courses are offered from midle school level to high school. We have several of these and have used their online subscription service while they had it. These are excellent!\n\nSwitched On Schoolhouse. This one is a complete curriculum with all the instruction, record keeping, and testing being done via computer. I used a trila of this many years ago. It looked pretty good.\n\nThe Institute for Excellence in Writing now has a DVD version of their composition curriculum. We used the teacher led version for our writing co-op a few years ago and it was wonderful. I have not seen the DVD version, but it is taught by Dr. Padewa himself. It should be excellent. One of the students who graduated from our co-op using the teacher led version won a state level composition contest and my son scored in the top 94th percentile in rhetoric on his ACT test. It is really good.\n\nThere are many new online high schools now that I have not researched. Includeing several run by major universities. A bit of research should turn up several of them. I have a few links in 'My Favorites' that I saved a while back. You can start here:\nhttp://www.highschoolhub.org/hub/hub.cfm\nhttp://www.homeschoolersofmaine.org/high_school_&_beyond.htm#Free%20Online%20Courses\nhttp://www.cis.upenn.edu/~brada/homeschooling.html
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Oh, book adoption time again? Sounds fun!\n\nWe adopted the PH Earth Science by Tarbuck/Lutgens.\n\nI really like it b/c the authors are wonderful. They wrote a lot of my college texts. But therein lies the problem.\n\nI teach 9th grade general ES classes. The reading level is well above most of my students. To solve the problem, I teach mostly from my own notes & activities. I use the text as a guide for vocabulary & as a resource for pictures & questions. The book is wonderful for Honors classes.\n\nOur physical science department adopted Glencoe's Physical Science if I am not mistaken. They did look at the PH version. I have not seen the actual text myself. However, one of my friends lent me a CD-ROM w/ some resources from the PH book. The resources are really good.\n\nJust keep in mind the age & reading level of your students. Sometimes textbook companies like to flash all the nice "free" stuff that goes along w/ the text. We received plenty of those things but most are not convenient to use. Lots of nice CD-ROMS for students but lack of computers, etc.\n\nGood luck w/ adopting your new "baby".\n\nLOL
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If this program is with an official school then the book keeping would be done by the school's bookkeeper or a PTO/PTA treasurer. We have no cheeleaders at elementary schools in the area of VA where I live.
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The only one I am aware of (most require classrome studies) is Penn Foster - http://www.penn-foster-online.com/\n\nHope this helps!
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I know what you mean! I had to start hs my 7 yr dd cause the school would not help with her learning problems.\nFirst, each state has a homeschool agency with a website. I guess google your state name and add 'homeschool agency' . This should have the laws listed, forms to download and copy, etc.\nSecond, NEVER have anything to do with the public schools ever again LOL\nNa, really, the law in my state is that the schools are not legally required to help anyone who homeschools, but they can at their discretion. Wouldn't hurt to ask.\nAnd, I don't have much money either. So here's what I have learned.\n1. There are SO MANY websites that you can use for every subject! I use the internet a LOT for school! The problem I have wiht this though, is it takes SO MUCH of my time searching and finding what to use. I guess this is what I have to do cause I don't have much money!!\n2. EBAY!! I buy books, workbooks, supplies, etc.\nI can't buy any kind of curriculum so I mix it up and use whatever.\n(you have to make sure of your state laws allow this)\n3.Do free field trips, grocery store outings, library, hospital tours, go to courthouse, post office, bank, etc. On your own and have field days at these places.\nUse chalk outside to do math, spelling words etc. Go outside for science nature walk and make collage with what you find.\n4. Join a local homeschool group. They are wonderful! You get together with other kids and have fun days, field trips, do classes together, PE, art, 4H, girl and boy scouts, etc.\nI thought public school had more to offer than homeschool, but NO WAY!!\n\nDoing all these things, I have spent less than $75 for a whole year, plus most of the things I bought can be used for years to come. (I know $75 is a LOT but I managed somehow?)\nsome people spend up in the thousands doing this.\n\nIf your children have learning problems, schools do NOT help with this. Oh they say they do but belive me they don't. Anyway, homeschool is so much better for learning problems IF you know what the problem is and if you KNOW WHAT to do for the problem.\nAnd, all children have their own 'learning style' and schools only cater to ONE style- reading and writing. What about the kids who learn better visually, verbally, auditory? \nThat's the problem my dd had, and now I can choose what, how, when, etc on teaching her to learn in the way she learns best.\nNow, she's doing so much better than she would EVER do in public school.
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Sounds like intellectually home school would be great for you because you seem driven. But please allow me to relate to you, I am not here to disagree with you but to offer you my own personal experience with you.I am not against homeschool,but I have very similar personality traits as you and it was not the best for me.I was in public school until 9th grade and my mom pulled me out half way through.Of course at the time I was thrilled because I was overwhelmed with social anxiety.Although fairly popular I disagreed with most of what went on with my teenage peers,like parties,drinking,drugs,and promiscuis(spell check)sex.But as time went on I became very detatched from society and found hard to relate with others and the outside world.Which later led to depression which caused me to gain alot of weight which caused me to be even more anti-social.Don't be so quick to say that you can't be helped because when i realized what my problem was I made myself get out and find a job dealing with the public.And I would ask questions and start conversations with strangers until I felt more comfortable with people.I then became more sure of myself and the depression left and I lost the weight.The point is that you shouldn't be so close minded. I know by the words that you use you are very smart so use that to the positive and don't be so pessimistic and closed minded. I regret that I spent so much time being an adult and looking down on my peers instead of setting an example for them amongst them.Now that I am 23 years old with many responsibilities, I wish I had gone to prom or homecoming or dances or field trips instead of focusing solely on academics.
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In general, no.  According to the IRS:\n\n"Qualified expenses do not include expenses for home schooling or for nonathletic supplies for courses in health or physical education.\n\nThere is no deduction for your child's home schooling expenses. These are nondeductible personal, living, or family expenses. Please refer to Publication 529, Miscellaneous Deductions."\n\nhttp://www.irs.gov/publications/p529/index.html\n\nYou may take a charity donation tax deduction for donations to 501(C) non-profit homeschool organizations.\n\nYou can use a Coverdell Education Savings Account to pay for homeschool expenses, but like a Roth IRA, the contributions are not deductible.  The interest gained is tax-sheltered, though.\n\nSome states, such as Minnesota, allow you to deduct some homeschooling expenses from your state income taxes.
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Community Colleges are a good options for some classes.  If you're looking for at home curriculum, try Apologia Science, Saxon Math (goes up to calc I believe) and Excellence in Writing with Andrew Puduwa (it is geared toward a little younger age group, but if you son is at all lacking the mechanics of writing it is a great program). Also, check out the book "A Thomas Jefferson Education."  You can find it at www.gwc.edu in the bookstore section. It is a must read!
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http://www.setonhome.com\n\nIts not an online homeschool school though. You enroll them in the school and they send you the books and lesson plans. You take the tests online though. And you get a diploma when you graduate and everything. Its a hard school though. But it prepares you for college.\n\nAnd then theres also: http://www.kolbe.org/ but I don't know too much about it. Some of my friends used it because you can take latin as a language when you can't do that with Seton.
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When I was that age, my Mom used mixed curriculums for me, the best she could find for each subject. Now we've mostly settled to abeka, but I'm not sure how young that goes. If you ever do use it, get something else for highschool math. My mom just this semester excused me from the Abeka algebra1, and is letting me learn from various other books.\n\nSorry I can't give you any names, or brands, but if you go to a Christian used book-store, they often have homeschool-curiculum to look through.
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I did not see the particular episode you're referring to... BUT I do have a thought to share on the subject.  I've met quite a few children who were home schooled who have NO social skills whatsoever. (in other words, they are quite shy around others, and are in capable of interacting on the same level as someone who attends a structured school.)  Also, unless the parents who are home schooling children are qualified to teach children, I have a VERY difficult time agreeing that these children are receiving the best education possible.\n Also, just to correct your grammar... it's "As a home schooled....", not "As an home schooled...."\n\n****\nTo "answer faerie" .... since when has the word "home" been a word beginning with a consonant but starting with a vowel sound???  \nSimple misspellings happen to everyone ... even Harvard grads.... but not knowing or understanding basic grammar, because your schooling didnt' provide for it, is quite hurtful in the long run to the children.
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I have homeschooled for years now.  I hear from my old fart neighbor "When are you going to let them go back to school?"  Ugh.  It never ends.  I just don't broadcast it to the locals because THEY choose to be close minded and to not educate themselves about hsing.  Consider this 'comeback' as it's my best one:  My son gets a one-on-one education.  It's better than a private tutor.  He is fully socialized as he can go to church, soccer, chess club, library groups, the local rec center programs, 4H and scouts."  Folks that flip out and bring up socialization usually just grab that word because everyone that knows little about it uses it.  Good luck and you can email me for any help you need.