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We are independent homeschoolers and do not do state testing. How can I determine my child's reading level?

Do any of the online schools offer a year round option?

It took the kids a while to ditch the "it's the weekend or it's summe, why are we doing school", attitude, but once they got used to it, and realized that they still have 2 days off each week and get a week vacation every 4 to 6 weeks, they don't mind at all now. They still get all the time off...

I work out of the home 40+ hours per week and homeschool 2 teen boys. We do school Sunday thru Thursday so that I have 1 full day to be available to them. The rest of the days, I go over assignments before work or after work. The boys figured out that if they start school at 7am or earlier...

What kindergarten curriculum do you use and what does a typical day look like for your kinder? I work 8 to 9 hrs out of the home, plus homeschool 2 high schoolers, so structure and schedules are a must for our family.

We didn't make the decision to homeschool until the boys were in 5th and 7th grades. We were both working and we needed both incomes. My boys were both failing in school - one because he just couldn't learn the material at the school's pace and the other because all his teacher required was...

Do you do anything special this week for 9/11? We usually try and do some type of activity geared towards this event in history. This year, the boys are 9th and 11th grades. This week, the boys are working on a power point that compares and contrasts Pearl Harbor and 9/11. Yesterday, we...

What do you like or dislike about it? I am thinking of using this program for kindergarten and 1st grade and then switching to teaching textbooks for 2nd grade on up. Has anyone made this switch and if so, how did it go?

My kids have done a minimum of 5 to 6 hours of schooling per day, since 5th grade. Now they are 9th and 11th grades and do 6+ hours of schooling per day, with 30 min off for lunch. If they are done with actual school work and still have time remaining, then they are expected to study.

That schedules and structure are important things for our family to have, but there also needs to be room for flexibility. We were really structured the first year with times for every subject, which caused me more stress if we ran over our time limit on any given subject. Now we have a weekly...

We use teaching textbooks and LOVE it!

We school year round and we love it. We get a week vacation every 4 to 6 weeks, plus any days off that we need in between. We usually take 4 to 5 weeks summer vacation. The kids retain better, aren't so bored, fight way less, and we get many breaks throughout the year rather than just summer...

In some other countries, kids don't start school til age 7

Both of my boys started public school kindergarten at either 6 or almost 6. One boy was academically ready, but not maturity wise, and the other was so frustrated with his lack of speech and people not understanding him (he was partially deaf until 3 yrs old), that we decided to give him an...

To answer the question from a previous poster, in California, you just have to file an annual affadavit on line once a year between October 1 to October 15. It takes about 15 minutes to complete. http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/ps/rq/affidavit.asp