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What's the cost difference of homeschooling vs..
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Question:
What's the cost difference of homeschooling vs.. ?? how do you know?
Answer:
-Before I actually did any homeschooling (by that I mean something to keep in
my records, not everyday stuff), I was so worried about the cost. I figured
the cost of books alone would break us. Well we haven't spent much at all.
Most of the things we've bought are things a PS-er would need anyway, and
we've always had tons of books around. My mother in law and my husband and I
were buying little workbooks long before I decided to homeschool. We have
made phonics flashcards and other things. I know this is nothing new to most
of you all but I've learned that for the first couple of years we don't need
textbooks and alot of things to do *work* with. We can *play* all day and
get in a whole day's worth of school to record in my little forms.
Another thing I worried about was the cost of joining a homeschooling
association (our law is either the school district or joining an approved
association to answer to). The biggest one in my state costs around $900 a
year per child! So I was depressed that we wouldn't be able to afford to
even join a homeschooling group and I did *not* want to go through our
district. But luckily I found an association on the internet in my state and
am very happy with it and it is very easily affordable.
I know this doesn't really answer the original question but I wanted to
comment on it.
-I've made a mistake about the cost of the association.
This was not intentional. I was thinking of something else. Here is the real
info about the state homeschool association(We are in South Carolina.): $270
per year for one child, $320 for two children, $370 for three or more
children, plus an extra $50 fee for diploma track high school students.
Additional fee of $25 for applications received after August 1st. This
association (I would abbreviate association but I don't like how it turns
out) is too strict for how I'd like to teach my children. From the
information I read on it, it is similar to homeschooling through the school
district.
I don't know how I got this mixed up!
The association I was thinking of when I said $900/year was not in SC, and
it included a curriculum also, which is why I suppose the cost is so high.
It was some kind of deal where you mail them and they send you everything
you "need", text, workbooks,.....
I feel silly now for my mistake, again I'm sorry for being misleading.
- This sounds more like an umbrella school than a homeschool
association. Most homeschool associations are just a local group of parents
who get together to support one another, share ideas, and sometimes plan
activities and classes together. An umbrella school charges a fee and
oversees/provides ciriculla for the students enrolled.
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