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Here are active links for HSLDA.
They provide state by state advice here regarding regulations.
Are there any AZ homeschoolers who could help someone starting in AZ?
My friend is homeschooling her grandson. She put her town and homeschool and found many groups.
You’re gonn’a be .... and do .... fine.
In year 2 of home schooling 3 elementary aged kids. 4th is a baby. We will not subject our kids to the Marxist numbskulls in our ultra-left city. (Moving soon). My wife is my hero and all 3 kids are far ahead of their public school peers
Just because the other kids make fun of your kid and beat him up is not a good reason to homeschool.
If your kid tried going to school and it made him cry, homeschooling
will only set him up to cry harder when he hits the real world.
The best thing you can do is hunt down some pre 2000 textbooks and a set of encyclopedias. The internet changes to meet the current agenda, get a good solid base in history, math, science and civics. Ignore the BS in ‘social studies’, use the good book to teach ‘getting along’.
We’re involved with CHAT(Minnesota):
http://www.chatclasses.com/
To Prevent Their Kids From Being Socially Awkward And Weird, More Parents Opting To Homeschool
Over the years, the homeschool scene has become flooded with websites to the point where it’s like searching for a recipe. A gazillion stay at home moms, mostly moms, that are busy, busy building the website and always have affiliate links that make them money.
It was pretty clean when I homeschooled 15+- years ago.
I don’t know any source for a listings of groups. There used to be some.
All I have to offer is the curriculum that we used. Robinson curriculum which uses Saxon Math in a self teaching way aka teaches them to look things up from previous lessons when they get stuck. It also uses the classics for reading material and the book list is all pro American, teaches morals and most of it is available free online due to being out of copyright.
The Illinois Family Institute is a good resource for resources. They had several sessions around the state regarding homeschooling, the state mandated curriculum, etc. Well done. Legislators in Illinois are trying their best to silence the organization. One of their prolific writers has personally had a death threat. They have a wide range of good articles on many subjects.
https://illinoisfamily.org/ - https://illinoisfamily.org/topic/education/- https://illinoisfamily.org/education/rescuing-our-children-forums/
Hslda has a list of support groups by state.
Contact the state one and they will provide local groups.
I gave up my career to raise my kids.
I was at their schools daily back when they would let you. Very involved in the PTA locally and county wide.
Homeschooled my kids after school. Mainly used ABEKA. My kids had a grasp of Algebra by the 3rd grade by using “Hands on Algebra”.
Threw in some Ayn Rand when they got to Middle School. Started with Anthem.
Our state department of education has a list of resources for homeschooling in New Hampshire here
Look for groups that organize field trips. They are a great way for homeschool kids to meet other kids with similar interests, and for parents to meet other homeschool families in the area. Some museums and parks offer special programs for homeschoolers, and some local groups organize field trips in their area.
Best advice... Explain to them they have to accommodate you with BOOKS or PRINTED OUT PAPER...
DO NOT AGREE TO ONLINE ANYTHING PERIOD.
Been there! :)
we love homeschooling. had to transition after our Christian private school closed. surprisingly it was fairly easy to start our home school even in cali.
we have been using A.C.E School of Learning, program (curriculum) coupled with Lighthouse Christian Academy to support record keeping for our kids each year. over 5500 students enrolled around the world. it touts itself as a school accelerated Christian education.
it’s been great for us. in particular our children really need to be off the computer (zoom school was a disaster for them) to learn effectively and they have traditional resources like what they call a “pace” which are bite sized units in booklet form that take about 3 weeks in each subject.
https://www.schooloftomorrow.com/about-ace
We homeschooled in NC. NC is homeschool friendly, lots of support available.
We are moving to VA. Our church there is starting a group.
Check for state and county organizations. Then check churches.