1. Homeschooling is typically guided by your parents. Most states expect that will be the case, and have your parents file papers. Check here for NY regulations – http://www.hslda.org

Then, talk to your parents, or caretaker, if you are interested in homeschooling.

2. Homeschooling can be far superior to a public school education because more time can be spent on actual learning. Most do it right, and have great results, but it isn’t for everyone. But, neither is public school, and their percentage of success is much lower than public school .

3. Some school districts are very cooperative about sharing resources, others aren’t. Find a local homeschool group though and you might be able to get some good used texts.

Just stopping public school and homeschooling can be good, but you really should do it with your parents’ approval, and know all the proper laws so you aren’t found truant. To some it sounds like a great way to get out of the public school grind, but to be successful, it does require dedication and work.

Good luck to you.

1. Probably not unless your parents have some serious money to be able to hire someone. However, you can do online learning where you have a teacher who is available. NY doesn’t have a free online public school program, so to do that, your parents would have to be willing to pay. There are MANY online schools out there. Ones I can think of off the top of my head are Bridgeway Homeschool Academy http://www.homeschoolacademy.com , Zion Academy http://www.zionacademy.com, A Beka has an online program, Alpha Omega has an online program, Calvert http://www.calvertschool.org is popular… Do a search for _homeschool academy_ and you’ll come up with even more.

If you and your parents are willing, you could even just homeschool on your own. Typically, high school homeschoolers don’t have their parents “teach” them; the kids work independently and the parents look over the work afterwards. There are plenty of resources out there that are designed to be self-teaching.

2. Homeschooling is better if you make it better than public schools. Also depends on your personality. I know one 16yo who has no desire to be in school; her 7 years of public school before homeschooling left her with a bitter taste in her mouth and she’s just not interested. She’s also an introvert so really doesn’t need to be around lots of people quite so much. Her younger brother, 13, is starting to get the social itch. He’s an extravert, loves being around people, goofing around, socializing. He’s planning on going to high school.

If socializing isn’t an issue, then the academics can be better if you focus and do your work. You also have the opportunity to develop some good time management skills, skills that much more mimic what adults in many fields need because they’re not being told what to do every hour and being told by their boss what to hand in each day. You can get more work done in less time (if you’re a decent student, you should be able to get all your work done for the day by noon if you start at 8), don’t need to spend your evenings doing homework, have more time to pursue your interests, get a job, etc.

3. Typically, schools do not lend out textbooks and they aren’t required to. I’m not sure about the laws in NY, though. If you sign up with an online program, they will provide the texts you need. If you do your own thing under the homeschooling laws in NY, you will have to purchase your own.

I live in California and I got homeschooling through my High School. So a teacher there came twice a week and tought me. I checked out my text books just like high school.

Home schooling to me was better than public schools. Aside from the fact that your a bit more free the down side is that you dont see your friends as much but I got my license so yeah. Well anywho I read an article on yahoo that said some colleges actually like homeschooled kids better, because they are more likely to be smarter because of the one on one teaching. It might be differant in nyc, but I’d ask your counsleors. The main point is I never paid for my homeschooling.

and theres tons of websites online. jmhsonline.com keystonehighschool.com

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1. Many areas do have homeschool co-ops. NYC is so large there are probably dozens of them to chose from. Within co-ops, there are often free to very low cost classes that you can sign up for. No, not quite the same as a free private tutor, but quite a good deal, so long as you can get yourself to the location where the courses are being held. Gradually, more co-ops are investigating the use of online tools to teach clases. Co-ops that do these classes offer ones that can be taken from your own home. You may want to contact a few local homeschool groups and make inquiries. Some co-ops with online classes take students from all over the country and you do not have to live local to the instructor. Look into http://www.virtualhomeschoolgroup.com/ for one such group.

2. Most of the time, the homeschoolers do far better on standardized tests than their public school peers. This has been borne out in many research studies. That doesn’t mean there are not homeschoolers that have not been adequately prepared for life though. I have seen a few families that do not take the responsibility seriously and their children are left to go wild. But thankfully, this is very rare. If you feel that you and your parents are ready to go into this endeavor with the heart to make it a success for you, you have what it takes to give it a try.

3. Nearly all the student edition textbooks that are used in the public high schools can be purchased online. However, getting the teacher’s edition is a different story. I would suggest looking to homeschool suppliers. Getting both the student and the teacher’s editions of school material is the norm. My favorite is Amazon and Lifetime Books and Gifts, but there are many more out there as well.

As to some of the perenial homeschool favorites for curriculum, you might want to look into Apologia for science. Saxon and Videotext are quite popular for math.

You can get your homeschool books quite inexpensively if you look to used curriculum homeschool boards. VegSource has a busy used homeschool book board. Another busy one is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/1001books/. Most states have yearly homeschool curriculum fairs too. You can visit the booths of dozens to hundreds of homeschool book vendors or get in line fast for the used curriculum sale and grab up great bargains on used books from families across your state. You can do as these families do as well. Once you are done with a book, turn around and sell it to use that money to buy the next year’s books. If you do find a favorite curriculum, check for Yahoo groups set up by families using that particular series or title. You can get lots of tips and tricks, find used material, and have a place to ask questions if something trips you up while working your way through a book.

Good luck to you. I hope you do homeschool and find it to be a great opportunity.

1. If you go through the public school, you’ll have a teacher come in every week or so to see how you’re doing, but you’ll do most of your work online and in textbooks.You won’t really need your parents that much.

2.Homeschooling is better if you’re not really social and can work alone.

3.If you go through the public school, they’ll give you all the books you need. Otherwise, you’ll have to buy them.

No one will come to your house unless you pay them, generally $25 an hour, that’s the going rate for a teacher.

Homeschoolers TEND (most of the time) to do two grades better work than Public Schoolers and 1 grade better work than Private and Parochial schoolers. So the average root mean squared homeschooler out performs a Montessori or Catholic school kid.

There is a failure rate, but it is lower than with public schools.

No you can’t borrow text books from schools. You have to buy them new or used, borrow them from the library or buy “school in a box” programs with books, DVDs, CDs and test materials.

1.? Mabye doubtful

2.It depends on what you want homeschooling is just you and/or siblings unless in a group no lockers no buying school supplies etc.

bu it also can be really fun like say you like history well we’re doing this thing this year called TRISMS and it’s basically a history based unit study which I think will bereally fun.

3. I don’t know but I do know that you can do driver’s ed through your local high school

4.Some public schools like in St.Louis I think and I think 1 town in Colorado will let you do what is like going to their school but is all over the internet and you just have to sit down and do it every day.

1. Yes, you can hire a tutor.

2. That answer will depend on the situation. For my oldest public school was better, my middle child it was home schooling, and my youngest is still to young to tell.

3. I would check with the school because every district is different. I buy my textbooks at the bookstore or I rent them from the library.

1.i believe so but if they were going to do that you might as well stay in public school.

2. they are about equal. Homeschooling is shorter time period. Although you have no friends to hang with,no electives, no school dances, but in homeschooling no dumb kids to hold you back .

3.buy them you probably can borrow them though from a library