Posted on 03/04/2009 7:16:16 AM PST by GonzoII
When hard times reached the Schneider household in central Oregon, the longtime stay-at-home mom took action — getting a job at a Subway sandwich shop to offset a drop in her husband's earnings. What she didn't do was also notable: She didn't stop homeschooling her three teenage children.
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Homeschooling is a priority for those who choose to do it.
1) God/Jesus
2) Spouse/Family
3) Teaching children in the knowledge of God
...
Material comfort is WAY down the list.
My husband was out of work for a year in 2002-03. The children thought it was great.
Persist?
Thrives is more like it!
i homeschool my children and work full time. their father lives elsewhere.
Thanks for posting.
We are homeschoolers. My wife teaches math classes at the local homeschool co-op (which my kids are also in), which helps offset the costs of curricula, etc. (She was an accredited math/science teacher before we started homeschooling.) We would not stop homeschooling no matter what. Government schools teaching their anti-God, anti-American liberal claptrap are not an option.
My wife knows one of the women interviewd in the article. Within our circles, we have several out of work families. I don’t think dropping home education is being considered by any of them. In reality, home school is cheaper than public school anyway.
With our four kids, I thnk the most we ever spent was about $1200 a year on curriculum. Most years it’s only a few hundred. Next year is actually about $50.00.
However, a public school kid gets a list of school supplies that is at least $100, plus they need new clothes every year, and most of them “need” to be the trendy stuff. That might be another $200-500 per kid. Plus schools charge fees for a the extracurricular stuff like band and sports. That would even out to the cost of the same extracurricular stuff our kids pay for. Scouts, art class and an advanced english/Shakespeare course my daughter takes.
This year’s costs
Curriculum $200
Art Class (2 kids) 180
Lego Engineering (2 kids) 180
Shakespeare 250
Scouts (2 kids) 150
Total 960
Public School 3 kids
Clothes 750
school supplies 300
Scouts 150
extracurricular (est 200
Total 1400
We are finishing up a couple of courses for my youngest. They were home schooled while I worked full time. Oldest is in college now, passed his entrance exams with flying colors. He is really enjoying giving the liberals a hard time, too.
“...I just don’t have that kind of money to continue paying throughout her schooling...”
That is our problem too so we sorta alternate a year of private school with a couple of years of homeschool.
With what I saved on private school this year I figured we could take her on one heck of a fieldtrip...even CPAC!
But after looking at our overall budget we left her at home and my wife and I went to CPAC alone...Ha!
Hubby decided to leave his corporate job when the oldest of our two homeschooled children was in the last half of her Senior Year of high school. He was able to spend a lot of time with her, and then, when she left for college in the Fall, with our youngest son, who was the entering his Junior year in high school. He LOVED the time with them, and is now glad he had it, since the youngest is off to college, and we’re now empty nesters.
My husband may be retired by the time our youngest boys are in high school. I think that would be ideal!
SirKit wouldn’t trade that time for anything!
I just saw this story today and came here looking for it.
Ping to metmom. Nice story.
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