There has been some discussion of the possibility of truancy prosecution if you keep your children home during panflu. There has also been discussion on what kind of materials to prepare for homeschooling your children.
The following link will take you to links for homeschooling laws in each state. It seems a wise prep would be to read the laws in your state, and have a plan to formally withdraw your child from public school when YOU feel the threat is real. Each state has different requirements. In addition to educating your child you want avoid prosecution AND make sure your child doesn’t lose credits because you failed to file the appropriate paperwork.
I think this peace of mind is just as important as masks and powdered milk :-)
Homeschooling your children is the awnser to avoiding the possibility of truancy prosecution. Once you decide to isolate your family just file the appropriate papers to home school your children then follow through and home school them.
Lucky me. We’ve already been homeschooling for two years now.
Also, if you have Jr. or Sr. level students, they can often take on line college courses and you can be ahead of the game at graduation. The credit is not usually given until the graduate or enroll in college. But you can get some fair courses that way and save tuition later on.
If you have college age students check out accredited universities that have on-line classes. They often cost more per credit hour but you save all those dorm, transportation, activity costs. Some are quite reasonable (see for example ENMU - not I work a different one, but it is a low cost alternative).
Many community colleges are also offering online courses.
Dennis I think what you are thinking of is articulated courses. They vary from school to school. Parents will need to check with their high schools and the colleges to know which courses can be done this way.
Here they are call concurrent courses. However, if you are home shooling you don’t need to check with the high school - that is the point. Most all the colleges allow some of them. The only reason I mentioned ENMU is that it like some only charges in-state tuition for courses even if the student is in another state. I you shop around you will likely find some course for your Jr. or Sr. child that can be taken from home and still they will get some college credit later.
It depends on the state, but…. in NM our lottery pays for state college tuition for students that graduate from a NM high school. Put you can also get that free tuition if you get your GED here even if you are home schooled. There are not a lot of state with free college tuition but there are a few and if you are in one of those states you will want to make sure that you get the right “diploma” for the free tuition.
The nice thing about taking some of the college classes at home while home schooling is that you will have some extra hours when you get to college and can take a “lighter” load and have less stress the first year or so.
Oh, yes, it works for “big kids” too. Now-a-days, you can even get some grad degrees all on-lines that are full accredited (important!). I the university I teach for, we have students that are on the front lines in Iraq, missionaries in India, - you name it.
Just something to think about if you have to set 3 or more months at home.
kristikaylene the link you left is not working .
Could you post it again please..
This is a different site with the same information. Parts of this site are not as even handed as the other site…so, if you venture away from the “laws” page, do so at your own risk! :-)
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