Does anyone know how much home schooling costs, if anything, in NC?
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1. What budget do you have to work with?
2. Who is monitoring the schoolwork and is that person giving up a salaried career for the time being? Also, will you be paying any tutors or private teachers?
3. Are you willing to buy used?
4. What approach will you be using?
Textbooks can be purchased used and are expensive new. Books can cost anywhere from $20.00 per year to $1,000 per year.
Online programs also vary greatly in cost from around $50 per month to $2000 per month.
5. How quickly do you learn or complete the work–will you be buying more than a year’s worth of materials in a year?
6. Does travel, field trips, physical education, etc. count in your homeschool spending? We spend about $350 per month for ballet, swimming, rollerskating, bowling, etc.
Probably the first thing to consider even before cost is what approach or method you plan to use so that you can better narrow down the comparison factors.
Just use the web and do some research because many options for homeschooling exist and as many as exist there is that many price tags to go with it.
North Carolina doesn’t have a public online school, which means you’ll have to go with a private company/school and pay their tuition fees. This, of course, will depend on the school. There are many out there.
If you do basic homeschooling, then you have total say over what you use. You don’t need to use a single textbook. There are families that buy nothing and use things online and from the library. Naturally, the cost of textbooks will depend on which textbooks you buy. And there is a huge selection out there.
http://www.hslda.org/laws/default.asp?State=NC
Also, here is another group North Carolinians for Home Education that has excellent information regarding homeschooling in NC. www.nche.org
The Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) website will give you information on how to legally homeschool in the state of North Carolina and other information on getting started in homeschooling; the link is below:
http://www.hslda.org/laws/default.asp
There is also a book entitled “Homeschool Your Child for Free” which you might want to read. You can get it from your local library or purchase it used from amazon.com for $8.00 plus shipping and handling.
Also, I own/moderate an online resource list/support group for homeschoolers which has many “Links” for free/low cost homeschooling resources in the links section. You are welcome to join and access all of the links:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/christianhomeschoolsupportgroup/
Additionally, if you e-mail me, I would be happy to send you a special report which has many great ideas about homeschooling on a tight budget.
I hope this information is helpful.
We bought supplies (composition books, pens, pencils, erasers) this year for less than $5.00. We found elective courses (5 of them) at a yard sale for less than $20.00.
North Carolina is very home school friendly. Even the public schools are progressive enough in their thinking to realize that the classroom is not the best place for educating all people.
Children Learning Reading is very comprehensive, and your son or daughter may have no issues assimilating the classes while the classes are well-designed. Since the system is based on phonetics, the educational process is gradual.
In Children Learning Reading program the lessons are distinctive and can not be present in other understanding methods.
http://www.ncvps.org
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