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Parents can contact parochial/private schools and discuss feasible payment plans, etc. These schools want to teach these kids and perhaps something could be worked out. Further, parents need to start sacrificing...money for the various electronics people use today, eating out, making purchases that are not necessary...are some options in order to pay for that tuition. Delayed gratification applied wherever you can apply is another method.

And as to those single parents, and I'm not referring to those who are divorced or widowed (and for that matter, the correct title would be DIVORCED or WIDOWED, and not “single parent”)it would behoove these men and women who think nothing of laying about with any man/woman and having babies, and then they wonder “what do I do now.” Oh, that's right, the government will pay for my housing, food, formula, education, everything! And the reality is they may NOT be able to afford anything more for their child. And this also applies to those men and women who are not married and decide to adopt a child....that's why the institution of marriage was created so that two parents could raise a child together..it takes the financial, physicial and emotional support of two parents who can share duties and back each other. And for that reason some single parents by choice will lose out and not be able to provide/care for their child as a married couple could. Reality and the understanding of economics comes late to some people, and the children suffer.

This is also a time when grandparents need to step up and offer to help, if that is what it will take for a parent to be able to home school. Also, are there any retired teachers out there willing to work something out with those parents who need assistance with home schooling?