This will be the most annoying and common question you get asked. So take them to Sunday school, read the Bible, or do whatever YOU want to teach good citizenship. The law says you have to teach reading, writing and good citizenship but there is NO regulation of that. I recommend checking out the organization Texas Home School Coalition to ease your mind about CPS coming to your door (and learn what to do if they do). You do not have to use any “state approved” curriculum, there (supposedly) are no lists of home schoolers, you don’t have to report to anyone. You may need to unenroll them if they have been in school. It’s easy peasy, you don’t need to tell the schools you’re doing it if you’re child has never gone to school. Soak in your babies, learn alongside them and for now (at least) don’t worry about a standardized test-I predict they’ll do great on the test after a year or so of this kind of school. But I also have hope that what looks like a disaster and crisis becomes a sweet time with your child(ren), even if it’s temporary and you utilize the school system later.
I know many of you have never planned to homeschool and are in crisis mode. Once you’ve read it all and explore the resources, call me and we’ll talk about your specific needs. I’ll try to break it up with subheadings. Practically speaking, our curriculum makes a secular product called Book Shark that may meet your needs but also philosophically I think that you may glean tidbits of helpful hints even if you leave the faith part behind. I hope that even if we don’t have Christianity in common that you’ll read this anyway. I have very strong feelings on the subject, mostly tied to our faith but also to parenting our children in general. Hello friend-I appreciate that you trust me to share my story and advice. You can do this-even if none of this resonates with you-there are plenty of home school styles out there and you’ll find yours. Many moms who birth outside of the hospital decide to educate their children outside of the school system, so it’s not too big of a leap. The next step was to place it in an easily accessible place online. I was asked advice so often, it was easier to compile it. Below is a copy of a document I wrote for friends home schooling their children during Covid. Learn how your comment data is processed. We reserve the right to delete any review or portion of a review that we believe does not meet our guidelines.Abuse of the system through repeated negative submissions that appear to be from the same individual do not meet our guidelines.
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