Posted: 6/23/2020 11:36:59 AM EDT
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My wife and I have decided that if we are going to be anchored to our children (8 & 12), that they will be better served if we straight homeschool. The virtual effort in recent months was comical. There was precious little, actual teaching. Moreover, they could do a week's worth of work in a couple-three hours. I do not know the requirements and regulations. I'd like a stronger hand in designing the curriculum. Please share any advice you have or resources to get me up to speed. If I don't have to, I don't wish to have them do the Florida Virtual, whereby the district still gets the "per diem" for attendance. |
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If the rule you followed brought you to this end, of what use was the rule?
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Florida is one of the friendlier states towards homeschooling. Does vary by county, as the school districts in red ones are friendlier more so than blue counties. Start by looking up local homeschool groups online. Some counties have several based on various reasons for homeschooling, and you may want to check with a few as each one will have different “chemistry” towards homeschooling. The state has public funded free to residents online classes available at www.flvs.net . They ore thought be certified teachers and are good for subjects that you may not be familiar with ( we used it for foreign language) and good for seeing how curriculum is set up. And keeps you from getting overloaded with everything. Each county school district does have requirements for occasional student evals as to progression of the child’s education. Ours was a former American history teacher that taught me in school 40 years ago, and taught it from the “living history” point of view that probably couldn’t be done today ( for the civil war period, taking the class out to the school rifle range to load and fire a Zouave rifle). |
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OP, which county are you in? I recommend joining Florida Parent-Educator Assn, https://fpea.com and your county homeschool group. They can be great referral sources for persons to do the annual assessment of your kids. FPEA has the FL homeschool requirements here https://fpea.com/homeschooling/requirements. They are quite simple. You'll need to keep a log of what your kids do each day. I made a matrix in a Word document for each week, with the columns the 5 days of the week, the subjects were the rows, and each day's activitiy in the boxes. |
If the rule you followed brought you to this end, of what use was the rule?
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Originally Posted By wmagrush: Florida is one of the friendlier states towards homeschooling. Does vary by county, as the school districts in red ones are friendlier more so than blue counties. Start by looking up local homeschool groups online. Some counties have several based on various reasons for homeschooling, and you may want to check with a few as each one will have different “chemistry” towards homeschooling. The state has public funded free to residents online classes available at www.flvs.net . They ore thought be certified teachers and are good for subjects that you may not be familiar with ( we used it for foreign language) and good for seeing how curriculum is set up. And keeps you from getting overloaded with everything. Each county school district does have requirements for occasional student evals as to progression of the child’s education. Ours was a former American history teacher that taught me in school 40 years ago, and taught it from the “living history” point of view that probably couldn’t be done today ( for the civil war period, taking the class out to the school rifle range to load and fire a Zouave rifle). Excellent and thanks! |
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Originally Posted By spartacus2002: OP, which county are you in? I recommend joining Florida Parent-Educator Assn, https://fpea.com and your county homeschool group. They can be great referral sources for persons to do the annual assessment of your kids. FPEA has the FL homeschool requirements here https://fpea.com/homeschooling/requirements. They are quite simple. You'll need to keep a log of what your kids do each day. I made a matrix in a Word document for each week, with the columns the 5 days of the week, the subjects were the rows, and each day's activitiy in the boxes. Highlands. Red as it gets. Per capita, the strongest trump support in the state. And i still need to drag you to a class in 'Chobee sometime. Following your other thread on schooling. |