My kids are home-schooled.
In NY you can pay for private tutors if you want to, but the
parent/guardians have to provide a certain percentage of the instruction
(I want to say >50%). They don't want some scheister to start a private
school and pretend they're "homeschooling" to avoid oversight on the
school. You have to submit an instruction plan to a bureaucrat who
approves it (or tells you what to fix). You then have to submit
quarterly reports on the kids' progress on the instruction plan. There
are minimum standards your plan has to meet, like so many hours of PE
and so many hours of American History, etc etc. The way they catch
people paying someone else to teach the home-school kids is when they're
dumb enough to submit the exact same instruction plan for multiple,
unrelated kids. So if you have to cheat this, at least make sure your
accomplice is smart.
I know in PA they have less reporting than in NY, but they do home
visits and want to see copies of school work the kids have done. I've
heard that in TX there's very little oversight. I've heard you just
tell them you're homeschooling and they leave you alone, but I don't
know if that's fact or just crap people say.
....but literally every state does this differently. You'll have to get
with someone who's familiar with how it works in Illinois.
On 4/7/2021 11:29 AM, Steve Jones wrote:
I have an incoming Junior and an incoming 8th grader Id prefer not to
send back to Illinois brick and mortar for at least the upcoming year
with all the covid games and politicking going on. The schools we deal
with have obvious union pressure to have ensured the remote curriculum
failed, dont want to play that game again the coming year.
Have any of you personally dealt with or had customers relay any good
solutions? Im looking for instructor led homeschool as educating
without beatings isnt something im really capable of.
there is a BYU curriculum I looked at but that gets some hefty pricing
and i couldn't ascertain whether its acceptable in Illinois
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