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Frequent Questions
Home-based education has also been growing around the world in many other nations it is not just the USA (e.g., Australia, Canada, France, Hungary, Japan, Kenya, Russia, Mexico, South Korea, Thailand, and the United Kingdom).(1)
One of the best ways you can help influence and raise your child rightly and in the Lord, is to have them homeschooled and in a Christian homeschool co-op or or your church Christian school is untouched by State laws. Get them away from and protect them from 365 days 8 hours a day of pushing liberalism, lgbt sex, racism and anti freedom teachings on your kid. Do whatever you need to to make this homeschooling happen. You are responsible to God for raising your child rightly & well in the Lord.
Discuss this with your husband to impliment today, or discuss when dating or courting for marriage, or with a fiance b4 you get married, and make it a key life focus since your children are the mission field God gives to you in marriage. Not married? Quickly find a godly man who wants to raise children in Christ well, in a growing pagan society, so they will be saved and living right no matter what. And you all run the race well, clinging to Christ and God will bless and reward you too.
Resources to start...
*How to get my spouse on board?
*We have no money how can we afford to homeschool - State provides $ 4,500/yr/kid
*I am a busy single parent can this even work?
*Homeschool helps **
*Things to know about homeschooling
*How to start process to homeschool and do it legally and correctly
*What to do after you take your child out of school but get an absence notice from a school in truancy states.
*How do I graduate my child
*How can my child take college classes alongside regular classes (& how young can the kids start doing that)
GED and Accredidation concerns? (*)
*Join FB group HS4CC for community college bound kids doing dual credits in HS
Note:
*You do not have to pick and stick with one company's home schooling system
*You can make up your own annual curriculum from using & mixing any of these
*Some mixed customozed their kids learning from here abd there. samples are below
*You create your child's Diploma anyway
In no particular order....
Home School School programs
Living Heritage Protestant k-12
Under age 5
5 in a row(1)
Offline and Free
Paper and Pencil systems:
Robinson curriculum
Easy Peasy's offline
Fee Based Offline
Online Free
Is great. Customizable. From k-high school.
Online Fee based
Christian Light
Generations curriculum
* Monarch starts in 3rd grade
Science Shepherd
Veritas Press (Reformed)(3)
Good online self-paced History & Bible courses for elementary school.
Christian Liberty Press (Reformed)
Notgrass is Christian (not exactly reformed)
Masterbooks (9)
Answers in Gensis Bible curriculum (1)
Abeka (8)
Loving Heart of Dakota
Bits and Pieces
A lot of parents mix and match to pick what is good and works for their child.
A combination of Ambleside online and easy peasy all in one is one idea.
Apologia can be used for Science & Math
Sone use Science Shepherd for science, and Mystery of History for history.
Christian Kid's Explore Science
Christian Liberty Nature Readers
Christian Light education has good math and language arts
Christian Liberty Press has kinder language and math.
Abeka math good up to 2nd grade
Can use random literature for History.
Mystery of History (2)
Some do Sonlight for young ones and have big kids do Veritas Press.
This family writes unit studies and you might benefit from these and contacting them
*Some follow the 3 R's and loosely follow Robinson curriculum; follow their reading book list which is pretty similar in titles to the books in Ambleside online.
TBD
My Father's World
Timberdoodle
Great Commission Publications
Non Christian
Acellus/Power (12)
Mia academy(16)
Cult run groups [avoid]
Menonnite
Rod & Staff (10)
Mormon
Home School Facebook Groups are a great place to look up (search) for questions and advice, and if none are there or the post is 2 to 5 yrs old you can post your question for help.
>Just note that if it is a general "Christian" homeschooling group you will run into people and advice from those in false religions such as Catholicism and cult people such as Mormon and Jehovah Witnesses.
Here are some groups, but search because thete might be more other groups there now.
Christian
Easy Peazy school homeschoolers
"Christian"
Non Christian
Non Christian by Location
*Search for your area on FB groups
*Create a Protestant one in your county/state
🌟A very important site to know and use often for homeschooling issues & legal
Here are more course and style options someone shared online. You need to vet which are protestant Christian.
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Footnotes on Homeschool companies:
(1) These are both offline curriculum you buy and use with your child or children.
Some didn't love the Bible lessons, but kids love that it is workbook based. And love the math, science, and physical education concepts they teach. Plus they teach from a biblical creation view.
(2) Parent History reccomendation: our best investment for boys was the G.A.Henty Series.(huge series 144 books). Teaching true history with a fictional character. My boys loved them & won’t let me part with them. Lamplighter has redone the series...but I warn you to be collecting while they’re young ($).
(3) Veritas is both online and offline. It is pricey, but honestly extremely worth it. Best curriculum I’ve ever seen and I’ve been homeschooled or homeschooling for over 20 years. The self-paced courses charge a one-time fee. The online schools charge tuition. Or you can just purchase the books and set your own schedule.
(4) Sonlight is literature based and wonderful. It's not online. I like this particular program just because I don’t have to plan anything it gives you the days the weeks, the teaching instructions all in a very organized manner.
Sonlight costs money. It’s a little expensive as well, BUT it’s 100% reusable. So I made a $300 purchase for it each year and reused it 4 times with my other kids. I still use it with my littles, but at a much more relaxed pace.
Some parents are so happy with it they've used it from age 5 to 15 for their son.
A lead virtual developer noted Sonlight is moving things online more
They’ll never get rid of books as that’s the philosophy but they’re using online for assessments, grading etc to make it easier for record keeping and even turning things in for states that require proof of work.
(5) All in One online
For 5 subjects is about $75
(6) For middle school some do Classical Conversations Challenge A
(7) Parent note: We used Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschool for several years and really enjoyed it. Most, if not all of their classes are advanced. Several subjects are online while some can (very inexpensively) be purchased in book form. My kids struggled with staying on task for the online work. They NEEDED to check other sites or play games.
This year we switched to AmblesideOnline and are loving it. This curriculum is also very advanced. Many families graduate their children before they reach year 12.
(8) Around since early 80s one of the few besides Robinson thst existed back then. Some courses are hard for some students to grasp. Their early phonics and math is pretty good. They do offer dvds. Is pricy similar to BJU so many skip the full system.
Abeka was quick paced and does a lot of repetition for memorization. Some noted the system seemed very unorganized.
A Beka was written for private schools. It is well done even though most don't fully use it in their homeschool. One parent noted they grew up using it in private school. The college she went to for her education degree spent a LOT of time training em on how to teach A Beka and BJU Press. She uses neither and are using AO. Some felt BJU’s teaching method is better.
Some like Abeka dvd option for older kids, specially when hands are full with a toddler and baby.
It’s not a rigorous education outside of math. Some think it’s a lot of busy work and poorly done. Just Mix and match what you want to use. Most say we have more options today with courses now, so a few only use their math.
(9) Master books is cheapest option but all parent led, it was a quick school day and easy to do it.
There was one book that went against the 2C, and a book or two we didn't like. My child learned lots about animals and caves and really enjoyed most of the books. I loved the Bible lessons. I really liked the second half of the curriculum, with recommendations for this age. It's like a second curriculum in itself.
(10) Rod and Staff.
Would probably not recommend this one.
It is Mennonite teaching. Similar to Amish.
After they learn to read it teaches to the student and doesn't require a lot of work on the teacher's part (made for multi grade classrooms in small private schools). The lessons often have Bible stories or refer to Bible stories. They also emphasize Christian living (obeying parents, working diligently, getting along with siblings, etc) and the curriculum does not have "asking Jesus into your heart". A talk although the gospel is present.
Mennonites are non-resistant, but that isn't presented until later grades (6,7,8) except maybe in their Bible curriculum (we don't use). They have a strong emphasis on reading, comprehension, and grammar and they teach mastery. So the student will be introduced to a new concept and then will practice the concept for the next several lessons to master it before a new concept is introduced. But they continue to use the concepts they have learned so that they don't forget it.
Unfortunately most of their books only go through 8th grade (Mennonites usually take the GED after 8th grade and then work for their parents or other church members to learn a trade and do not generally pursue higher education) although some of them do go through 10th grade. But by 8th grade they can perform at college level in language arts and in math they have enough to run a business or a household (but I don't remember if they have more than rudimentary algebra not).
(11) AiG offers actual physical books.
Very apologetics focused. Not just for preteens and teens. I'm doing it with my boys 5 and under and they like it!
(12) this is not Christian... and the founder is ironically extremely anti-homeschool.
(13) Warning: “The Good and the Beautiful” is written by a Mormon and does not have Christian doctrines in it. I have personally looked at it and do not recommend it. I would choose an actual Christian curriculum instead. I will note two posts from their blog wirth looking at for general info. but highly recommend you look at nothing else. 😬
(14) source: https://www.nheri.org/research-facts-on-homeschooling, December 11, 2023
(15) Reading and books lists graciously provided by a home school family
(16) A parent noted there isnt a christian version of mia academy. But there is a lot of online single subjects you can put together that already exists that is probably better quality.
(*) GED Questions
You Dont need accredited to avoid a GED. You just need to follow your state homeschool law and that will give you authority to issue a legally-binding diploma and transcript. Do not do a GED!
To see a full list of options - Multi-Subject is probably best - check out the lists here, and vet them for your parameters: https://www.homeschoolroadmap.org/p/deluxe-charts-ages-5-18.html
Helps on selecting reading books:
Find out what is in a book before you buy it or let your kid read it. ScreenItFirst.com
*You can also flag books to help users there too as a community of parents.
Final Notes:
This material was compiled from actual homeschooling parents, to make your search super easy so you can get right into homeschooling quickly and easily
Some info found about these curricum places were a bit longer so it was linked to a diff page.
CVs = Comandment violations. Some esp some in Reformed circles can feel a bit stickler for this while others see liberty.
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