Is it possible to homeschool on a budget ? Of course, it is. One of the greatest things about homeschooling is the parent's ability to choose the curriculum for their children. This means that parent's will choose their child's curriculum based on several things. One of the first considerations is choosing a curriculum that will work with the child's learning style.After the consideration of learning style, another consideration for many families is whether the curriculum agrees with their world view. Many families find that they want the curriculum to be based on their religious beliefs, or even on their lack of religious beliefs. Whether one decides to make religion a part of homeschool curriculum, or whether the reasons for homeschooling are completely secular, deciding on the type of curriculum is a consideration that will be individual for each family.One thing to consider when homeschooling is the financial aspect of educating your child at home. Many families find t hat when one parent stays home to care for and educate children, there is a loss of income. This will sometimes mean that the family budget is already constrained, before any home education materials are secured.Some people ask if homeschooling is expensive. The answer to that is, it is as expensive as you can afford, or choose to pay for. Remember that you are already paying for the "free" public education that your child will not be receiving, because you cannot stop the taxation that pays for that function. Since your child is not taking advantage of that education, then you will be totally responsible for securing education materials outside of that source. An aside here is to find out if your local public school district allows participation of homeschooled children in the services they provide. Several states recently passed laws that would allow homeschooled children to go to public school on a part-time basis in such classes as music, foreign language, sciences and t heir associated labs. Sometimes this benefit also extends to things like sports. If your child is interested in playing high school football, then you might be able to take advantage of the local school's team, for the same cost as regular public school students.As you begin researching materials to educate your child, you will find that homeschool curricula range from free to very expensive. There are many free resources online that parents can choose to take advantage of. For pre-k, kindergarten, and lower elementary students, there is a wealth of information that can be downloaded, or printed from sources around the web. Finding these sources is as easy as typing the subject you wish to teach and the word free into a search engine and exploring the opportunities presented. As the student gets older it becomes a little more complicated to educate the student at home for free, or at a low cost, but by no means is it impossible. It will just require more work on the parent's part to research free sources. There are a number of sites that offer spelling and vocabulary games and exercises, at little or no cost to the parents. Math games and review exercises, as well as in depth instruction can also be found online for free. The biggest cost to the homeschooling family might just be the time and energy put into researching and finding free and low cost sites. Remember that it is possible to find copies, online, of the standards for each grade, along with the expectations of student's abilities when moving on to the next grade. Once you know what they need to know, then your hard work can make the difference between paying a lot, or finding great free resources to home educate your student.
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