I don’t think TN has online public charter schools. You could check with the state board of education about it.

Ok, first off whoever told you, you can’t teach without a degree is a fibber or is badly misinformed. You only need to have a highschool diploma. We’re from southwest Tennessee.

We enrolled with www.familychristianacademy.com as an umbrella school. It cost $40, but will cost you a little more since you’re late enrolling. Enroll them through a Christian umbrella school like the one mentioned before. Another option for you is www.homelifeacademy.com because you’ll only have to pay $100 to enroll all 3 of your kids (BEFORE you enroll with homelifeacademy, please get in touch lol)

Make sure it’s one with a nice website so you don’t have to mail in your grades and stuff and can do it online.

This is our second year of homeschooling and homeschooling does NOT have to be expensive. For books I spent $95 for one child through www.christianbook.com and just have a few supplies to buy. We start school next Monday and we also don’t use an online school. Online schools will be much more expensive than just getting the books and teaching yourself.

Also DON’T overlook the FREE resources online you can use. Last year, we didn’t have curriculum in every subject, so I printed worksheets and lessons off the internet. It IS a bit harder and that’s why this year we DO have curriculum for every subject. Considering my daughter didn’t have curriculum in every subject last year she is still a year advanced. She’s in second grade this year, but is doing some 3rd and even 4th grade work. So don’t think you have to have the EXACT same stuff the Joneses have to succeed. All of the Abeka and Saxon goodies that are sky high aren’t purchased by us yet lol.

If you’ve got google and a printer then you can get mounds of lessons for your kids.

Email me at [email protected] if you need more help and information.

There are many options for homeschooling that are not affiliated with a church. Check out www.k12.com for one. I’ve looked at their curriculum and think it is very good. They offer their curriculum through public charter schools in almost every state. Also if you search on the Internet for “home school for middle or high school” you will find a lot of options. Several top universities (like Stanford in CA) also have on-line high schools, but you need to pay. Your school district or county department of education might even offer a home school option with a curriculum and textbooks. I’m just about to embark upon home schooling my 12 yr old boy (at his request). Good luck to you!

Here’s a link to your state regulations:

http://www.hslda.org/laws/default.asp?State=TN

I checked on the K12 site, it’s not available in TN, but you may be able to go through the customer direct option? I don’t use K12, so I’m not familiar with that.

It looks like you can go through a church umbrella school if you don’t have a degree, or you can teach lower than 8th grade if you have a high school diploma. You can also probably check into virtual charter schools, but that can get a bit pricey.

Anyway…hope that helps!

We have homeschooled our kids off and on for years and I would look closely at the church schools, I am not familiar with TN law today but we thought it was reasonable about 8 years ago when we considered moving there. Many of the church schools are not overly religious as long as you are not anti-religion you ought to be able to get along. Some public schools are more difficult to get along with than others. Good Luck.

in many cases i think of that classic, circulate to the development, faculties are greater appropriate. enormously for the greater youthful grades the place you’re development those important social skills. … yet hiya – in case you will residing house college, why no longer get the help of on line faculties? by potential of the time you’re in extreme college, i think of it is going to grow to be greater of an selection yet possibly you will possibly desire to might desire to be stated by potential of a university professional or something? i do no longer understand. in my view, i could have benefited plenty from with the flexibility to take my superb difficulty (math) and worst difficulty (history) on line. I wasted a good number of time having a pipe dream by means of lectures that I the two did no longer desire or could no longer understand. yet i could have nonetheless needed to take training like paintings, band, and technology in individual. … i could desire to work out the alternative while my daughter is at school to enable her take some training on line and a few on campus. (even nonetheless i’m uncertain if i could enable her to apply it.) If no longer something it may help with how overcrowded some faculties are. I keep in mind my 10th grade history classification. We had babies sitting in and on the cabinets and on the floor. in case you have been absent sooner or later – you no longer had a table. In my Spanish classification, only 2 babies had text textile books and we did no longer also have a instructor! (They spent the full semester searching for a instructor on an identical time as we enormously plenty did despite we felt like.)