I don’t know how long you’ve been homeschooling..but there is a program known as a virtual charter school. It uses k-12 curriculum (which is the bomb, by the way) and is fully accredited. If you don’t like the program or the curriculum the student can easily be moved back into the public school system flawlessly. Students use a master teacher that they meet with once a month and oversees the work they’ve done.

The school is viewed just like a public school and so are all of the test scores, awards, diplomas..etc

We used the California version of it and loved it. If you have any other questions on virtual homeschooling, feel free to ask me!

Agora Cyber Charter School

http://www.agora.org/index.html

Legally, homeschooling is defined as a parent accepting legal, financial and educational responsibility for their own child. There is not such thing as certified, unless you are referring to a certified teacher who happens to homeschool his or her own children. In that case you would be talking about a private tutor. Taking in someone else’s children to educate changes your home to a private school, which must meet certain legal criteria, especially related to fire and safety codes. Way to expensive for most families. It is just not financially viable to meet health, safety and insurance requirements. I recommend you re-think your attitude towards your own child. Homeschooling can actually be financially beneficial to a family because with only one parents working the other is free to do the things that they were paying someone else to do before. Additionally the expenses incurred by working outside the home (transportation, meals, wardrobe, child care, etc., ) are removed along with the expenses of a child attending school (wardrobe, meals, transportation, fund raising, etc.). And as far as seeing that your child is properly raised and educated, is that a “luxury” ? Or a responsibility?