Guest guest Posted December 11, 2008 Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 Does anyone know if you can homeschool for 1/2 day and send your child the other 1/2 day. My brother is trying to do this and the school is giving them a lot of problems. Does it have to be either or? If anyone knows what the rules are please let me know or is it a state by state decision. I live in Indiana. His child is in special education and has bipolar/adhd and is considered EH. He does meet ISTEP standards as of right now. Don't you also have to have a certain curriculum to homeschool because I know they don't have any of that. Thanks for any suggestions or ideas. M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 11, 2008 Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 All my kids attended regular school, then were home-schooled in the evening. They didn't know they were being home-schooled, but I'm a sneaky mama. :^) It was a matter of helping with homework, trips to the library and museums. Vacations to historic places. Concerts and plays. Watching PBS on TV. Sometimes it was just a matter of leaving books lying about. For example, when Texas outlawed the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution, I bought a book on the subject and just left it lying about. My kids picked it up and read it. I also bought a book about sex written for children because my youngest son simply would not discuss it with his widowed mother. We had history books, science books, literature, etc. I also corrected their grammar, discussed current events with them. Schools are too crowded and teachers too overworked and restricted to educate our children properly. The primary responsibility lies with us parents. granny On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 4:59 AM, CINDY MATTERN <cindymattern@...> wrote: > Does anyone know if you can homeschool for 1/2 day and send your child > the other 1/2 day. My brother is trying to do this and the school is giving > them a lot of problems. Does it have to be either or? If anyone knows what > the rules are please let me know or is it a state by state decision. I live > in Indiana. > His child is in special education and has bipolar/adhd and is considered > EH. He does meet ISTEP standards as of right now. Don't you also have to > have a certain curriculum to homeschool because I know they don't have any > of that. > Thanks for any suggestions or ideas. > > M. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 21, 2009 Report Share Posted September 21, 2009 There are several who have or are homeschooling here. There is also a group called " Homeschooling and Downsyndrome " that you might want to check out. What state do you live in? They all have different requirements. At www.hslda.org look on the left side for " state laws. " Click on it for a list of requirements to homeschool in each state. I homeschooled my son for grades 10-12, and it proved to be a good decision. Shirley Homeschooling questions Hey I have a couple questions about home schooling. First of all ph 12 has never really liked going to school not if something happened or if it is just sepperation anxity, at times it is a struggle to get him out of the van and he is getting bigger and I am pg, so not really an option for me anymore I hate having to fight him to go. So what I was wondering is how do you get started? If he is more hands on then writing and reading which he dose not excell at all at what do you do there? Just getting my options out there. Heidi mom to ph Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 21, 2009 Report Share Posted September 21, 2009 School used to be such an issue for us. Avery ripped the door handles off my car trying not to go. It would take me and a teacher to get him out of the car. I had it in our ARD papers that if he was on campus he wasn't late even if he was in the car, because it was such an issue. I know several people who home school and it works for them. Avery isn't one to work for me so that makes it hard. I did just get him a learning pallette from usborne that he does and it works! lol I couldn't believe my child did work for me. lol We have a store called Mardel's that has lots of homeschool kids and info. I would check with local homeschooing groups too, amy ________________________________ From: Heidi <hjjjjhenderson@...> Upsndowns Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 9:29:50 PM Subject: Homeschooling questions Hey I have a couple questions about home schooling. First of all ph 12 has never really liked going to school not if something happened or if it is just sepperation anxity, at times it is a struggle to get him out of the van and he is getting bigger and I am pg, so not really an option for me anymore I hate having to fight him to go. So what I was wondering is how do you get started? If he is more hands on then writing and reading which he dose not excell at all at what do you do there? Just getting my options out there. Heidi mom to ph Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 21, 2009 Report Share Posted September 21, 2009 Heidi, It depends on what state you are in what your options are. Each state has their own requirements regarding homeschooling. You can go to your state's Dept of Ed website and find out.. . or go to some homeschooling websites and they will direct you to different state requirements. Then, you will have to file an " affidavit to homeschool " which you can do online. Once your child is 16 you don't have to do this anymore because they can legally quit school so you don't have to keep track of things for the state. Some states will require that you keep data and some, like AZ, are very lax on that. When you decide to homeschool, I would recommend that if you aren't going to follow a formal program that you write up your own IEP just to keep yourself on track. You won't have a lot of data, but since your son already has an IEP through the school you can use that and build on that in areas that you feel the need to. Now, you can teach on your own, there is so much available online or just informally as you go through your day (for example, going through Sprouts with Logan today we were able to work on Speech goals and math has he had to recognize numbers.) That depends on how organized you are. When I was homeschooling my typical children I didn't do well without a formal guide, but when I was homeschooling Logan I did because I could see where I wanted him to go next, whether this was because I'd already been there with Mav or because we could see where he was going, I don't know. I am not the most organized person so.... I had to write up guides for myself. The best program I have found online is the K12 Virtual Acadamy. They follow the guidelines for each individual state so that you are following what the public school is doing. It is considered a " Charter School. " They do have a sped department and will help you write up your IEP goals for the sp needs child. I think your child has to have accomplished a certain percentage to continue in that program and it varies how it works from child to child. For my typical son, we were able to do 2 1/2 yrs worth of work in 9 months with 90% or above in most subjects. I know of a couple of people using it with their sp needs children and opinions vary. If you are fairly organized and know that you will follow through, I would just do it on my own with no pressure to keep up. I LOVE homeschooling and would do it with all my children if they wanted it and if my husband would agree to it. My hope is that once he retires and wants to go traveling he'll let me homeschool them all. Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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