Thanks sooooo much for replying to me. I knew FReepers would pull through and I will comb over every recommendation received. Some of them were mentioned by a home schooler acquaintance of mine, but I wanted more feedback as this is a big decision. As I said....it’s overwhelming.
The thing that gave me the most angst was picking out the curriculum.
I was so worried about not getting the *right* stuff.
It was groundless. No curriculum is perfect and the kids in public schools don’t get tailor made curriculum, it’s one size fits all, and like one size fits all, it doesn’t.
You can adjust as you go if you find something isn’t working out as you expected. Yes, there will be a cost in that because you will have bought something you didn’t use like you expected, but they WILL get a better education and if they’re really interested in a topic, the local library and online stuff is almost limitless these days.
They will be free to pursue anything that catches their interest once the basic academics (math, reading, writing) are done.
Focus mostly on literacy, and they will learn to teach themselves and they will be able to research anything they want and learn about it.