I've just been thrust into home schooling (beginning today), and am looking for any *warnings* of things I'll likely let slip through the cracks when I'm establishing a partnership with an educational company.
Here's what I gather as the general idea of home schooling:
1. Each state has approved cirriculum (administered by specific educational companies)
2. You choose a company's cirriculum, receive the education packets, which include course material & testing material.
3. Cirriculum evaluation is divided between two categories: teacher is the teacher/ parent is the teacher (which determines who does the "grading" of the school work and tests). Either way, all assignments and tests are returned to the company who are the overall "administrators."
I see that there are some side things (like home school "groups," or coalitions, through which home school kids meet for PE, field trips, and extras of that nature). I'm not as interested in hearing *warnings* about those. I see that as entirely secondary to cirriculum requirements/procedures.
Mostly I am hoping to hear what some of your families may have encountered as a snag here or there. Or if there was something especially helpful, that will be nice to hear as well.