Does anyone know of good sources for homeschooling learning pods in the south Jersey area? We do not do Facebook and that is where most of these homeschool moms are networking through.
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Go online to your state's Department of Education. Nearly all states have remote learning materials by age/grade, and are designed for home education according to the state standards, with homework and quizzes included.
See if your department of education does have the materials online for download and printing. Be ready to add your own education to whatever the state standards provide and your child can excel ahead of their class.
With all due respect, “homeschooling” with the state’s materials is just public school at home, and they are still indoctrinating the students in goodness knows what. Besides that, the whole process and structure of that educational system is not really designed to bring out the best in most students to begin with. If we will ever be truly free as a society, we have to completely stop looking to the government to direct, oversee, or monitor the education of our children.
The advantage is that you can preview what they are about to teach - and discard stupid stuff. There is still some Mathematics and English, Physics and Chemistry to pursue, and some people rely on those state certificates when the child grows up, including universities and employers. I am not saying that one needs these certificates - one of my home-schooled children is now a regional manager of an international company, without ever getting any qualifications, and got his first job because he simply marched up to the employer and stated that he wanted the job, when the rest of the applicants sat on their seats waiting to be called (just like in school). BTW. We Homeschooled for ten years before switching to a state online school.
I fully agree. That's why I said be ready to add your own education to it. The State curriculum should keep a reasonably intelligent child busy for about 90 minutes of education per day.
Be sure to add your own education in geography, reading, writing, math or any subject. You can also toss the state reading material and substitute your own.
Thank you!