How can high school drop outs "home school" their kids?

Branden Round: Can you just take your kids out of school and say they're being "home schooled?ABSOLUTELY NOT!When you knowingly flaunt the laws of your state you endanger every law-abiding homeschool family in your state. It is very important to learn the homeschool laws of your state and follow them to the letter. Whether a high school drop out can homeschool is determined by those same laws. And they homeschool their children the same way all the other homeschool families do. They may have left school to help at home with an ill parent, or left school to work so their family could keep their home or for some other important reason.Our children determine the value of their education every time one goes off to college, or is successful in whatever they choose to do with their lives....Show more

Fritz Hawkey: The people who home school often have advanced degrees from excellent Universities.People home school their children because the quality of public school edu! cation is very poor. The parents home school their children because they can do a much better job home schooling their children than the public schools can do.

Roselee Mczeal: If your child has already attended a state school, you must seek permission from the head master local authorities to take the child out of school to be home schooled. However, if your child is approaching school age (and not currently attending school) it is not necessary to inform any authorities if you intend to home school your child. I personally disagree with this system, as the parent does not have to prove they are capable of teaching to an appropriate level...Show more

Clinton Quant: > Who determines the value of a home education? Well, usually the colleges do that, based on the kid's test scores and interview process. Just like more traditional students, homeschoolers have to compete for college entrance based on test scores and outside activities and interests, all rounding out ! to a guess on the college's part on whether or not the student! will be able to complete the required workload to earn a degree. > Can you just take your kids out of school? Nope, every state in the US has laws pertaining to homeschooling and what parents must do in order to stay compliant with homeschooling. Some states require annual testing or portfolio reviews, while other states regulate the number of hours a student needs to study in a year, or the required subjects covered, or just that a homeschooled student's education must be "comparable" to that from the public schools. What the rules are really depends on where you live. > How can high school dropouts educate their kids? Yeah, you'd think that would be impossible, wouldn't you? You'd think that the higher the education of the parent, the better off the kid, right? A couple of years ago they ran some numbers on that very topic. This study included nearly 12,000 homeschool students for all 50 states who took one of three nationally normed tests, the CAT, ITBS, or SAT. The ave! rage scores of public school students on these tests was--clearly--at the 50th percentile. As a group, homeschoolers' average scores ranged from the 84th percentile to 89th. What about income? $34,999 or less: 85th $35,000 - $49,999: 86th$50,000 - $69,999: 86th$70,000 and up: 89thOK, how about the parent's education level? Neither parent with college degree: 83rdOne parent with college degree: 86thBoth parents with college degrees: 90thHomeschool students with college-educated parents tend to score about 8 percentage points higher than homeschool students with parents who have less than a high school education. Not a significant difference when you consider that public school students with college educated parents score 27 (writing) to 35 (math) percentage points higher than those public school students whose parents have less than a high school education....Show more

Morris Cuomo: In most states a high school drop out can't legal! ly homeschool their child. However,, statistic show that a parent's le! vel of education has little effect on how well their child does with homeschooling.