NOTE 1: Before hooking up with any individual/organization, be sure to vet them for Anti-MAGA Lefist agenda. AVOID ANYTHING RELATED TO "SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING & "DEI" (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) -- it's coded language for CRT and SEXUAL PERVERSION
NOTE 2: Beware of overly-commercialized homeschool resource purveyors. Some folks are into this just for the money.
NOTE 3: Don't try to do this alone. Find other like-minded parents and join together. Know your state / local law, join a homeschool association and local / SM groups that support your values.
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Search for Links to prior posts of this list--the parent comments/suggestions in the threads are pure gold
https://patriots.win/search?params=HOMESCHOOL+%2F+CO-OP&community=TheDonald
https://greatawakening.win/search?params=HOMESCHOOL+%2F+CO-OP&community=GreatAwakening
List of The States Where Government Schools Can’t Kids To Wear A Mask
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PUBLIC ENEMIES LIST: 15 LARGEST TEACHERS’ UNIONS IN THE UNITED STATES (Zippia Career Blog)
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Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA)
HSLDA’s leaders, directors, and employees are Christians who seek to honor God by providing the very highest levels of service in defending homeschool freedom and equipping homeschoolers.
How to Get Started (Interactive Explainer): https://hslda.org/get-started
Homeschool Laws by State (interactive map): https://hslda.org/legal
List of other homeschool organizations (each State has them): https://hslda.org/content/orgs/
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FIND HOMESCHOOL GROUPS NEAR ME -- US, CANADA, PUERTO RICO: https://www.homeschool.com/supportgroups
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The Homeschool Mom: 20 years of Helping Homeschoolers (includes job resources for homeschool moms)
https://www.thehomeschoolmom.com
Hillsdale College
K-12 at Home: An American Classical Education: https://k12athome.hillsdale.edu
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GAB Homeschooling Group
National Home School Association (NHSA, appears to be membership/dues-based)
https://nationalhomeschoolassociation.com
We are a dedicated team of seasoned homeschoolers that are determined to maintain the NHSA's position as the epicenter of the home schooling movement.
Terra Scholar - A Complete Handbook for Today’s Homeschooler E-book
https://nationalhomeschoolassociation.com/terra-scholar-homeschool-ebook.php
What are Homeschool Pods and Co-Ops? (explainer)
https://www.homeschoolingsc.org/resources-page/homeschool-associations/
Other Resources, Activities, and Curriculum available on site.
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Conservative Home School Programs (list/links)
https://www.best-schools.info/conservative-home-school-programs
Christian Homeschooling Association (CHA)
[Not sure about this group. Their website seems a bit thin.]
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What is a School Pod ? (How to form and manage)
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Duck search results for "homeschool pods and co-ops"
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=homeschool+pods+co-ops
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National School Choice Week (NSCW)
About:
National School Choice Week is a not-for-profit effort to raise awareness of effective K–12 education options for children. We focus equally on traditional public schools, public charter schools, public magnet schools, private schools, online schools, and homeschools.
By researching and developing comprehensive and unbiased web-based resources, we work year-round to help parents better understand their school choice options and navigate the process of finding schools or learning environments that best meet their children’s needs.
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Ed Choice
School choice allows public education funds to follow students to the schools or services that best fit their needs —whether that’s to a public school, private school, charter school, home school or any other learning environment families choose. Watch this video to see how an educational choice system works.
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Reddit Homeschool Groups
https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=homeschool
NOTE 1: Vet these very carefully. Lots of lefties.
NOTE 2: Also search Reddit for specific State / Christian / faith-based homeschool subs.
Example -- Arkansas
https://www.reddit.com/r/ArkansasHomeschoolers/
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FakeBook Homeschool Groups
https://www.facebook.com/search/groups/?q=homeschool
NOTE 1: Vet these very carefully. Lots of lefties.
NOTE 2: Also search FB for specific State / Christian / faith-based homeschool subs.
Links to Duck search results pages for various Homeschool topics (offered temporarily for lack of fully-vetted resources)
State Homeschool Associations
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=state+homeschool+association
How to Homeschool
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22how+to+homeschool%22
Homeschool Basics
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22homeschool+basics%22
Homeschool Resources
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=homeschool+resources&t=h_&ia=web
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Indiana Association of Home Educators https://iahe.net/
"I highly recommend researching the classical model, which I will gladly make a post on if there's an interest. Currently working on a Master's in such."
"My family utilizes a curriculum which provides the opportunity to meet weekly with other families in community. There's accountability, the chance for kids to interact with friends, cohorts of students, like-minded parents who offer encouragement, and amazing support from the curriculum company itself."
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This was my first stepping stone: Texas Home School Coalition
Info on how to withdraw from public school. In Texas, it’s pretty easy.
https://thsc.org/sending-a-withdrawal-email/
How to choose the right curriculum for your child: https://thsc.org/homeschool-curriculum/
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Homeschool Buyers Co-Op for curriculum choices. Free to join, lots of great deals!
https://www.homeschoolbuyersco-op.org
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https://www.rainbowresource.com/
Has every curriculum under the sun and then some more! It was a great place to buy homeschool books. Good luck I homeschooled both my kids and they are happy and successful today without going to college by the way! One is a self-taught gaming coding engineer and the other runs her own full time home based bakery business at the age of 19. Don't give up and persevere with the help of God!
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BetterWorldBooks
Great source for older / out of print Textbooks.
https://www.betterworldbooks.com
Khan Academy
NOTE: The Math and Science resources are untainted, but check other materials for CRT and other SJW propaganda just in case.
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Ron Paul Curriculum
https://www.ronpaulcurriculum.com
"Absolutely the best CONTENT I have seen anywhere for subjects of Literature and History. My 4th grader loves it and is learning things I didn't know about until college and beyond. PhD level professors teaching in prerecorded course (180 lessons per subject per semester). Also have courses in science, math, etc and adult courses. By 4th grade students can work almost entirely independently with the curriculum (but you'll want to learn it too!) which is a big help especially for families with multiple kids."
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ABEKA (Christian Homeschooling Program)
https://www.abeka.com/homeschool
About:
In 1954, Dr. Arlin Horton and his wife, Beka, started a Christian school in Pensacola, Florida. But they soon discovered a problem. Textbooks and curriculum based on biblical educational philosophy were starting to disappear. Burdened to give their students the best education possible, they stood in the gap and began producing their own materials.
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Catholic Homeschool Community
https://www.catholichomeschoolcommunity.com
Join with over 7300+ fellow Catholic homeschoolers, from around the globe. We are better together as we confidently learn to homeschool with JOY, as we prepare to launch our children with their unique mission to serve Him in this world. This community is for you, the homeschool parent. A place to thrive. while educating at home and balancing a beautiful home life!
Seton Home Study School (Catholic)
Seton Home Study School is a nationally accredited, faithfully Catholic private PreK-12 distance school located in the state of Virginia. We serve an enrollment of approximately 20,000 homeschooled students, and several thousand more families through book sales and by furnishing materials to small Catholic schools.
"Seton Catholic homeschooling is excellent. The program handles all the paperwork for the state or country of residence. They send a box of real books, computer use is minimal. We set up a fast pace with provided math course, so we can add Singapore US edition afterwards."
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Bob Jones University Press (Christian; homeschool resources and books)
https://www.bjupresshomeschool.com/content/home
Saxon Math (subsidiary of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
https://www.hmhco.com/programs/saxon-math
WallBuilders (history resources)
"BJU is a great curriculum if you’re looking for one with a biblical worldview. It’s quite rigorous. Saxon math is great also. Teaching textbooks is also great for math. Also check out Wallbuilders. They have tons of true history content."
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Alpha Omega Publications
Switched on Schoolhouse
https://www.aop.com/curriculum/switched-on-schoolhouse
"If your kids like computer-based learning (as mine did and do), Alpha Omega Publications has a great curriculum called Switched On Schoolhouse. It starts in 3rd grade, and goes through high school. Covers all the core subjects plus Bible studies and electives."
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Calvert Education
https://www.calverteducation.com
"Calvert invented modern homeschooling 110 years ago, and we’ve been perfecting it ever since. We have helped parents educate more than 600,000 students in all 50 states and in more than 90 countries around the world."
American Education FM Podcast
https://americaneducationfm.com
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The Good and the Beautiful ("Making homeschool beautiful and easy")
https://www.goodandbeautiful.com
"I LOVE this curriculum! Christian based and has amazing resources!"
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This is what we used last year and loved it. It is a non faith based, literature based program that is a lot of fun. https://www.movingbeyondthepage.com/?gclid=CjwKCAjwos-HBhB3EiwAe4xM9yKOk1mVxbUPu6zr34gw4WJyo5NzY_eOOobZLJ27AeVCTA0IcjVaZxoCaiwQAvD_BwE
In addition we used Right Start Math which is a great program but requires a little re learning to understand their program. I think it would be best if starting from kinder. https://rightstartmath.com/
I've also heard great things about Math U See https://www.mathusee.com/
And we added on Lexia for families for additional Language Arts. I used this mostly for my kindergartner who was learning to read but my 4th grader loved it too. https://www.lexiaforhome.com/
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The 74 Million
ABOUT: The 74 is a non-profit, non-partisan news site covering education in America. Our public education system is in crisis. Our mission is to lead an honest, fact-based conversation about how to give America’s 74 million children the education they deserve.
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Textbooks (and other books) available in pdf format for download at these sites:
We homeschool, have since the beginning. Crisis schooling was not the same as homeschooling. If you crisis schooled, then no, you did not homeschool. Homeschooling is freedom! Freedom to go where you want to get educated, to sleep in, to go on field trips, to meet people that believe in freedom. Your kids aren't being trained to be a cog in the wheel, they are being trained to be the wheel.
Get them out in the world. I disagree with not being able to do it on your own, you can. Get an RV and travel. Piece together your curriculum to tailor it to your own kids. Take every opportunity you can for them. I have some homeschool friends who say "only one fun activity a week. We have too much to do" that is public school! I can't tell you how many days we "missed" of sitting at home, to go to a museum or zoo or hear someone talk or meet someone interesting. It's all worth it! Don't sit at home and "school" your kids, get out into the world, and teach them! Even the grocery store they figure out percentages (what is 30% off? Hobby Lobby is a great place to do math!) I have even learned by homeschooling. Plus I am bonded with my kids, I am their influence, I am their adult role model, and I am the one making decisions and guiding theirs. Not the government. YOU CAN DO IT. I don't have the patience either, but God gave them to me and I love them!!!
This is so inspiring. Good on you.
I am getting things to a place where this becomes an option for my 7 year old. The alternative is stark: we live in a country where the headmistress of the new elementary school (we are relocating) will not refer to my daughter as “she/her” by email, only “they/their”. Yet only recently, a convicted two-times rapist declared himself female at the time of sentencing and was able to be sent to a female prison. If I was to challenge him in a public space - say, a female public toilet where I object to him using that toilet alone with my daughter - and make any reference to his gender transition (eg misgender him as male), there is a good chance I would be charged with a hate crime.
We can’t change country yet but it’s a future plan. So homeschooling and tutoring is the near term goal.
https://greatawakening.win/p/16a9v19MWu/scotland-has-fallen-the-land-of-/c/
God bless you, fren! Mine are grown, but I wish I'd done the exact same thing. When I worry about the state of the world for this generation of children, I pray for an army of parents like you who are raising strong, wise future leaders.
My family is currently traveling as we homeschool. We've met a lot of other traveling families. Every family is happy. Every family has nice, well-behaved, well adjusted kids. We haven't met any kids who hate their parents, have entitlement issues or are confused about their gender. These kids have no pressure to grow up fast and do not seem to be sexualized at young ages. I think taking our son traveling was the best thing we've done for him behind switching to homeschool when we realized that the distance learning that the county foisted on us was a nightmare.
100%
The lesson every kid learns on day 1 of school, regardless of who is teaching or what is being taught: “I’m forced to do something I don't like for 8 hours every day for the rest of my life.” A consumer-slave is born.
“Unschooling” is the natural way of learning. See John Holt.
We homeschooled for 23 years total. If done correctly home school can't be beat. My children know how to think critically not be a cog in the wheel. Not only were they trained to "be the wheel" but to be able to "reinvent" the wheel.
This is the first time I have seen you post this information...I can't believe you posted before and I missed it. I home schooled for many years and I have to say it was the support groups that I was in that made it work at all. In the Chicago area we put on home school conferences that were well attended and really provided home schoolers with so many different resources and speakers. Home schooling is hard and finding the right support group and resources is so vital to success.
Once again, I applaud you on your ability to do the research, make lists and provide these in a timely manner to all the others that don't have that ability. If you are hiding any other lists you may want to drag them out....you do such a great job.
I would just add that we used Saxon Math which I really loved ...I don't know if that is included in here at all...I was very impressed with that. I also used an excellent phonics program, which I don't remember the name of...I would have to dig it up...but it was excellent also. Otherwise, I was pretty eclectic in what I used. Four out of five kids have college degrees and two have masters...so I guess it didn't hurt them at all to home school.
I will add that I had one daughter that did not read until she was 10. But her reading level advanced so quickly that she was able to enter public school in the 6th grade and became a straight A student and has a master's degree. I was a firm believer that every child advances on their own timeline and that is why I don't like the one size fits all approach to public schooling...or healthcare goals for babies either.
Anyway...valuable info...thanks for posting...
I absolutely loved home schooling and feel that it was the best decision I ever made. My youngest child didn't read until he was ten years old too. A concerned family member coerced me into having him tested and it was discovered that his comprehension was YEARS beyond his peers. When he finally did start reading it was technical manuals 😂 This particular child was such a wiggly, energetic/kinesthetic learner and so incredibly bright that I feel he might've been destroyed early on by being forced to sit still in a regular school environment. Eventually he did choose to finish his education our local high school where he graduated with honors and a scholarship. He's a machinist by day and loves building things. He has purchased land, built two rentals and is currently working on building his third home, all on his own. And he's only 29!
It's SO TRUE that one size does not fit all. Kids DEFINITELY need to be allowed to discover their talents and passion at their own pace. It is the very essence of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. ❤️🇺🇸❤️
How wonderful to hear your story which validates EVERYTHING I believe about raising kids. Glad you were blessed with your home school experience...and your son prospered so well...
On the medical front my first child was 7# at birth, 14# at a year and 21# at 2 years. Her 2 year younger brother caught up and surpassed her. Breastfed, no vax and just very lightweight....but perfectly normal...but was off the charts for underweight. Her doctor was ok but if I ever went to a different doctor they lost their mind. She just wasn't average...what idiots!
I learned that I could trust my knowledge and instincts so much better than I could trust anyone else..especially because I was the one that loved my kids the most and always had their best interest in mind!
God bless your family richly!
excellent post, thank you.
homeschooling will just keep getting more relevant, there's no reason not to. it's important on a macro level too- good curricula will rise to the top and put the dept of ed's failure track to shame. terrific effort anon.
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You beast, this is the largest list yet. YES repost periodically!
Hi, veteran teacher here. Let me give some advice to anyone teaching their kids times tables: don't have your kid learn them in order from 1 to 12. Go from easiest to hardest: 1, 2, 10, 5, 11, 9, 3, then all the squares, then 4, 6, 8, 7, and 12. Trust me! Make sure you go back and review previously mastered ones, but focus the child's attention on one at a time, from easiest to hardest as I said. Point out that 4s are double of the 2s, and you can skip count by 4 by alternating counting by 2. In a similar way, 6s are double of the 3s. A lot of kids have trouble with 6 x 7=42 but can do 3 x 7=21...well it's just double. A lot of kids have difficulty with 7 x 8=56 (I remember I did), well just put the answer first and say "a-5,6,7,8" like you're a dance teacher or Lawrence Welk.
I'm not a kid and will repeat what I have said before about "math isn't allowed on GAW", but even I have a problem with
This sounds like 2020 elections math. Surely it is a typo instead.
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Oops! Me: Always check your work, kids.
Also me: 6 x 7 = 32.
Thanks. Yes, it was a typo. I'm actually pretty good at single-digit multiplication, LOL! I was phone fagging, so I'll try that excuse, but I certainly wouldn't accept it. Gonna correct it, but here is my confession: I shudda checked my work.
Thank you, Teach. To know it's a typo is comforting in multiple ways.
This is how Singapore primary math implements multiplication and division. They start first grade with ones and 2’s. Second 3, 5 and 4’s are added. It’s not a bad curriculum though has some drawbacks but it’s worked for all four of my kids.
Honestly though we require memorization of all math facts and if this is done a child can go straight to fifth grade math for most curricula. So many parents think memorization is not needed and this is a detriment to their child’s education and learning ability.
Memorization is a chore but it's vital to many things. Parents, we used to have to remember addresses and phone numbers, and we never know when we will NEED to keep hard facts in our brains. Memories Press had a good curriculum but also excellent articles on the need to return to basics like memorization.
Example long term memory, net goes down, for days or weeks. Do you know how to contact anyone or get anywhere? Example medium term memory, you witness an accident or a crime; do you know how to organize the facts you observed and retain them reliably? Short term memory- You're in a parking lot in the evening. Do you know how many cars are running, which of them have windows open or are vans, how many people are around you...?
Longer term example, digital books are erased, libraries are burned. Can you tell the important stories from memory?
See, I wouldn't put 4s until after 1, 2, 10, 11, 5, 9, 3s, and the squares.
I do recommend learning and teaching bar models from Singapore math, however. I didn't learn them as a child, but I've been using them with amazing results with my students.
Husband and I were just taking last night about how our 8 year old doesn’t know what non binary or gender fluid means because we homeschool. It’s so awesome raising a based kid. And naturally, he loves Grandpa Don and can’t wait to be 10 so he can see Trump in the White House. Homeschooling might put us in a harder spot financially but our family is thriving in every other way. I am able to stay home and work for the ones I love. Doin a woman’s work, and cherishing every moment.
You're on the autism spectrum, aren't you?
Good stuff. Worth a sticky, to see if anyone is interested.
The best research librarian I knew was autistic. Great guy.
I use Calvert, which is the oldest homeschool curriculum in the country. We are very happy with the curriculum. They recently changed from paper books to online. The software s a little buggy, but they are working the bugs out, and you learn to work around the bugs. The software bugs are a tiny inconvenience compared with how much we like the curriculum.
Edit to add: If you had a bad experience with distance learning, please know that homeschooling is the opposite of distance learning. Your kid(s) will flourish in real homeschool. Distance learning was a nightmare deliberately intended ruin the education process.
Came here to see if anyone mentioned Calvert and how bad it was.
My child had to use Calvert during the so-called "pandemic" crisis and it was so bad to the point where a lot of stuff were not organized properly, links were broken and we couldn't find content where the teacher told us to go to and it would be missing.
Not only that but when we are actually working on the content itself, it was clearly Common Core based, not traditional based. How did I know this? When we were working on a worksheet, there would be something like "CCSS1.213" on the top or bottom page (It will be "CCSS" but the numbers vary as it would adhere to the section and page method). The worksheet is just questions and my child had to fill in the answers but there was one question I had no idea what they were asking.
Had to look it up online because the teacher wasn't usually available to us as well as to everyone else because they were busy attending to every student in the whole school, I guess? Anyways, when I looked it up, the first hit I got was "Common Core Standards" and behold, all of the answers to the exact worksheet we were working on.
"CCSS" is Common Core State Standards so I looked ahead and found pretty much everything we were doing is Common Core. I immediately got upset because my child was getting confused and frustrated when they weren't understanding anything that was asked for them to answer, but it made sense to me when I was reading some of the stuff and I was like, WTF?! Plus the amount of work is way too much for a student. Even my wife and I don't remember doing this much work when we were in school, Even my father too and he was making comments on how crazy it was that my child had to do like 2x or 3x more work than we did back then.
Don't know if Calvert by itself is any different than Calvert when working in partnership with the school but the Calvert we went through that was provided by the school, was horrible.
This sounds nothing like what we have experienced. My son went to a private school before homeschool, so I am not too familiar with common core curriculum, but it looks like pretty standard math to me.
Our complaint about the workload is sometimes the assignments are too short and sometimes they are too long. Like one day, he'll do the whole day's worth of work in less than an hour and another day, it'll take 4 hours to complete all the work. So now we just do 1.5 hours per day and it all seems to even out in the wash.
When you see a worksheet or maybe an activity that seems to have come out of a textbook, look for "CCSSX.XXX" on one of the corners, usually as a part of a header or a footer. (Where "X" would be a set of numbers like "2.212")
Calvert had a lot of "CCSS" plastered across all of the work my child has done. Common Core is not limited to Math, it can span across all subjects.
Your son's workload seems less than mine as we would be up til like 10 p.m. working on all of the homework that was assigned that day and it's like 1 homework would take 2 hours to complete, then the next again 2 hours or so. My child would get like 4 homework assignments per day, M-F and it's like 8 hours worth AFTER school to do them with little breaks in between.
It was awful and my child had a hard time understanding half of the material. As far as math goes, my child understands math but that's only if I did the traditional way first then the "Common Core" way and my child kept saying they prefer the traditional way because it's so easy and faster.
Maybe it's because Calvert had to adjust to coincide with my child's school's curriculum because before the "pandemic", we felt that the school wasn't doing a good job teaching. For the class of 2020, at the time of graduation, the whole class of 2020's proficiency in math was 10%...
10%?!
That's really embarrassing and how could the school system allow them to graduate with little to no knowledge of math and I don't even know what subject they taught for seniors like Calculus, Geometry, Trigonometry or even Algebra? If it was Algebra and they struggled with that, then it's most likely due to Common Core not doing its job right.
Just know one thing about Common Core: it is a huge waste of time because it is very confusing and there are extra steps to do one simple problem. It's like they're encouraging you to THINK outside of the box a.k.a. disregard the Occam's Razor in a sense.
Another thing is that they are replacing fiction books with non-fiction books for "Literature", or rather, "ELA" because they felt fiction books are not helping children think and understand the situation better. That part was true with Calvert, where my kid had to do non-fiction books and do research and many more... This is for elementary education... Scary to think maybe on the high school education level, my child probably will have to do a thesis/dissertation for their ELA class senior project...
Sorry, one more thing to add... there are a lot of creative writing prompts, so Calvert is encouraging creative (fiction) writing. Every week there is a list of 10 spelling/vocabulary words where they have to work the words into a story of some sort.
I think that your school put their curriculum on Calvert's platform, which is unfortunate because their platform is buggy.
The work that you are describing sounds nothing at all like what my son is doing. First of all, there is only schoolwork, no homework beyond the schoolwork. There are no worksheets. I wish I could upload some photos to show you what the assignments look like, but they are either multiple choice questions or writing assignments. I just looked at quite a few assignments again from both the student side and the parent/teacher side to make sure that I hadn't missed numbers, and the only numbers I see are: Science 500, Language Arts 500, etc. (He's in 5th grade. In 4th grade, they were all subject 400).
My son's math assignments are taught much the same way it was taught to me in school... and I am wayyy before common core!
The only things that sounds similar with your curriculum and ours are the research reports. Most of them have been reports where he could gather the information from any source, including online. He had to do a book report on a fiction book of his choice and a book report on a non-fiction book. The parameters are loose to start with, and since parents are the teachers, we can loosen them even more if we want to. He's working on a biography now about any prominent person not born in the USA. Personally, I think the research reports are great assignments to teach him to do research, sort information, put the information together in an understandable way, etc. But, if he had to do them IN ADDITION to other schoolwork instead of AS HIS SCHOOLWORK, I would be mad about too much work, too.
I also wanted to add some more things I forgot in the last post.
While Calvert only assigned one full fiction book (of his choosing)so far this year, they do have a lot of excerpts from popular fiction books where they have to analyze the chapter(s) and are quizzed on whether they understand the concepts. They do the same with non-fiction excerpts, too.
Math... sigh... Last year in California, they tried to take calculus out of high schools because it is "racist." There was a ton of push back from parents, so the CA board of education gave up on that. However, San Diego Unified hired a guy that started this fall that has promised to get rid of calculus.
The poor math education is part of a bigger agenda... and your school seems to be all-in on that agenda.
This is a great resource! ThanQ
I don't have any kids here any longer but will pass it on to some of my neighbors who are homeschooling right now.
all three grandkids decided on their own to homeschool, at different grade levels of jr high/high school, and excelled with their education...amazing how much of their daily lives was wasted with the nonsense in schools...so the kids did their schoolwork at the best time of day for each of them to learn, while also doing their ranch chores with the animals, learning responsibilities...their social lives center around their church, not the usual school cliques and rules, time-fillers/wasters...all around positive results, for both parents and kids...just my opinion/experience...
You rock 20-gauge! Thanks for the post. I have a few suggestions to add from experience. I have read all 5 Rush Revere books to my son. Rush Limbaugh and his wife wrote these books and they are fabulous. He loves them and as his reading comprehension excelled, I would have him read paragraphs to me. I also rented the Sons of Liberty miniseries from the local library and watched with my son. It may be a History Channel series, but it's actually worth watching. It portrays the British as tyrants and our Founding Fathers as brave patriots (surprisingly).
The lesson every kid learns on day 1 of school, regardless of who is teaching or what is being taught: “I’m forced to do something I don't like for 8 hours every day for the rest of my life.” A consumer-slave is born.
“Unschooling” is the natural way of learning. See John Holt.
This might be one of the best, most comprehensive, well curated posts on homeschooling I have ever seen.
Hats off, and big thanks to the person/people who created it. And much thanks to those who have replied with their own finds.
I'm a big advocate of homeschooling, and have done research on it myself and I know how hard it is to find good sources.
And I literally can not find any source I have that hasn't already been covered here.💯👍👍
Great set of resources OP!
A suggestion to add bookfinder.com. I use it all the time to find any book for homeschooling and now for my kids in college. Also exodusbooks as the most amazing reviews of homeschool curriculum out there.
Amblesideonline is free and an amazing resource. I have lists of ways one can homeschool for free but this is one of the best.
Robinson curriculum is probably the next cheapest. He has an amazing story on why he educated his children this way and almost all needed up with phds. 2 hours reading 2 hours math and 1 hour writing each day.
17 yrs homeschooling. It’s not always easy but it definitely is the best path.
17 years, you say?
Awesome!!
Excellent resource 20-guage, thank you for posting this more than once over the last 2-3 years, I know it is seen by people who need it every time! My kids are now graduated but I pulled them out I'm 3rd grade because the administration was supremely fucked and they were not helping me with my one having a really bad time with a really bad teacher. I am a single Mom with amazing support of my parents and brother. My brother thought I was crazy until he went to the school to fight for my daughter. When his kids reached school age, he didn't send his either. Seriously the BEST decision I ever made, because those years would have turned my girls against me. One was against me for years, so pissed that I pulled her out. It was hard to come up with lesson plans and also work full time, but it was something I prayed about and knew I needed to make happen. Parents, yes, it might be hard, but don't make it like public school the way some try to do. Live life with your children and teach them along the way. Freedom is absolutely correct and it WILL be the best decision for your kids and your family! Thank you again 20-guage, all of your resources are so helpful and I recall thinking once that you would have been an amazing librarian!
We've been homeschooling for 12 years, and I can't speak highly enough of Shormann Math. It's based off of Saxon math.. but as the story goes, Shormann was teaching Saxon math, and put his own twist on it with his students. Then, before he created Dive Into Math, he got in touch with Mr. Saxon and asked him if it would be okay to teach his style of Saxon math. Mr. Saxon was more than happy to let him do so. So as a parent who used Saxon Math for our kids, then switched to Shormann's online program... I couldn't recommend it more. I give it 17 stars! ;)
Homeschool co-ops are also valuable, but you have to be discerning. One co-op admin vetted everyone coming in, it was peaceful. The last one we attended did not, it ended up like public school with so many public schoolers attending, although most all of them dropped out because they could not keep up with the work load.
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I applaud people who can homeschool. We tried for a year and just ended up with my five year old hating me. Now he loves school and can read so we are going with regular boring schools.
Five was too young to start. Most states don't require kids to start school until they are 7. PLUS, if he hated you, you were doing it wrong. Probably too much like what we all knew... public school. He would have loved field trips and singing the alphabet and counting to 20 in the car. Regular school isn't boring... however it is turning in your kid to the government! Try again, that would be my advice. However, don't make it school. It's fun. There are resources everywhere around you... groups, communities, zoos, museums (even ones you have never heard of) and opportunities to learn everywhere. Stores, on a walk, even listening to the radio. we have had some awesome conversations centered around things we heard on podcasts and the radio!! You CAN do it.
McGuffey Readers are absolutely free in digitized versions and are a great resource for homeschoolers.
https://archive.org/search?query=McGuffey+Reader
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=McGuffey&submit_search=Go%21
Thank you Anon. I’m going to pull my son for 6th grade