NOT AT-Rant on Homeschooling!

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Hi Dale,

 

I for one have not heard of that. I am also in several homeschooing support

groups in which there are high schoolers. When we homeschool we have

choices. We have choices on the curriculum we choose for our child, we have

choices on how we homeschool our child.

 

For those who want it, the Independent School District Warehouse allows

homeschooling parents into their warehouse once a year and we get to take as

many textbooks as we can haul out of there for free!!!

 

The Scholastic Warehouse, yes the scholastic books that you purchase at the

school for your child, offers homeschoolers three to four times a year all

over the United States, a chance to go through their warehouses and purchase

their books at 50% off. If you happen to volunteer to run the cash

register for a few hours, you can use what they would have paid you towards

the purchase of books! So, in essence your books are free!!

 

In our support group as well as other support groups will have end of year

swaps on curriculum. If one parent is done with a particular curriculum,

they will lend it to another family to use. Lots of savings there!!

 

We also have a giveaway table at our support group meetings. All the

homeschoolers bring in curriculum, books, tapes, videos, etc. that they have

either grown out of or no longer use and give it away!!!!

 

Let's see, I do pay for my daughter to take American Sign Language, but I am

able to be in the class with her and learn as well! This way we can

continue to practice at home. When she's older and she takes the more in

depth ASL courses it will count as high school and college credit as a

foreign language!

 

My daughter is also taking piano lessons. I'm paying for this by using the

bartering system. I'm trading my soaps and toiletries and soap making

lessons so that my daughter can learn piano!

 

Once a month we go to the Musuem of Natural Science and take science classes

that range from the primitive area all the way to dissection. It's only

$8.00 a class and the parents are free!

 

I think I've shown how in Texas, it is not mandatory to pay outrageous fees

to homeschool our children. Actually, there's a book called Homeschooling

on a Shoe String!! This goes all the way through high school!! I know

there will be some subjects that I won't be able to teach my daughter as she

gets older, but luckily, there are several moms in my support group that are

ex-professors of Chemisty, Physiology, Astrobiology, Algebra, etc..who would

be more than happy to tutor my child and not for outrageous fees.

 

Sorry if it sounds like I'm going on a rant, but lately there have been a

rash of misinformed people saying negative things about homeschoolers when

they have not tried it themselves.

 

Best regards,

 

Nikie Brown

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