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DaybyDay

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04/11/2008 1:12 PM	Alert
I have been considering home schooling next year. If anything, I may consider supplmenting with some homeschooling curriculum. Does anyone have any experience with curriculums Saxon Math, Shurley English, A-Beka History, ACSI or Biblical Choices for Bible, CSI (Christian Schools, Intl.) for Science. I also understand that there is a convention coming up in July? Does anyone have info on those specific dates and times? Thanks.

RichTig

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04/11/2008 1:50 PM	Alert
Home schooling is a great idea. You should find other moms who home school too and share ideas and maybe some of the subjects. If you listen to all the posts here: MUSD has 167kids per class, the principall cares only about appearances and the schools are riddled with drugs and gang violence. Kyrene is an hour away by bus (with traffic) up the 347-speedway-of-death.

DaybyDay

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04/11/2008 1:56 PM	Alert
Are you being sarcastic because I am asking a genuine question about curriculum. Yes I have read threads and participated in a few regarding MUSD, Legacy, and Kyrene/other schools. I don't care what happens with other kids in other families, only what I do with my kids in my family. I am not saying that homeschooling is the way that I will go, but I want to get some information on specific curriculum. And, as I initially stated, if anything use some of this curriculum to supplement at home.

RichTig

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04/11/2008 1:58 PM	Alert
Unless you go private school, home schooling is the way to go. Public education is free and you get what you pay for. I would find other families that home school and partner up with them. You could swap weeks or subjects or be a resource for each other. Its always the home schooled kids that get perfect SATs, never the public school kids.

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04/12/2008 4:19 AM	Alert
DaybyDay I am glad to see another parent considering homeschooling. It does take a committment and patience on your part to educate the children, but it doesn't take 5 - 8 hours a day to do structured learning. Homeschoolers find a way to educate all day long. I am not sure how old your children are, but they can learn math while learning to cook or do laundry. Or science when you plant the back yard. That is considered part of "schooling". As far as curriculum, it has been a long time since I used any. A-Beka and Saxon Math were the ones that were in demand when I started. I found it was best for me to find one curriculum to use for most subjects as they tried to integrate one lesson into the other. Anyway that was the thought. My niece started with Weaver a hands on study and had great success. She adopted 7 children with various types of "brain injury"; the ones old enough to be in school were not learning, so she pulled them out, started using Weaver and the kids loved it, were able to grasp the concepts and even learned to read. I am not sure what curriculum she is using now. That is the great thing about Home Schooling, you know your child and you can fine tune their education to meet their needs in a one on one method with a quicker response time. Schools, public and private, only know your child as one of many and have so much information they must impart to children with various learning and social capabilities that they don't have the time to switch up how they educate each child. God Bless the teachers who are devoted to trying to teach our children the 3 R's, they are doing pretty good for what they are dealt. Best of luck, I agree with Rich Tig, try to find a local HS group for support, and there used to be several blogs on the internet as well to glean info from.

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