<p>My school district holds a fieldtrip every month or so. it's not on regular basis, and homeschoolers of all ages and also their parents go all together. there's about a class and a half amount of us, so most of us know each other well enough. </p>
<p>i'm planning on going to the aquarium on the last day of this month with the group. sounds like fun! what makes it better is that most of the time the program pays for the students. we dont get to have a bus or anything, (parents drive their own kids) but i still like it.</p>
<p>did your school districts ever hold these kinds of things whne you (or your child) was homeschooling? or if you homescool right now, do you attend these? feel free to add in.</p>
<p>Our school district never did any field trips for homeschoolers, but they did have classes such as foreign language, band, science. They took a survey of interested homeschoolers and offered the classes the homeschoolers requested.</p>
<p>I think it's nice when schools and homeschoolers can work together. We all have the same basic goal, after all--to educate children.</p>
<p>my district has a science class once in two months or so. but then because it's for all ages, we never really learn something...it's more like a fun thing. we did plastic rockets, lego go-carts, and painting molded planets....but we got to keep them all, which was definitely cool.</p>
<p>The schools in my area absolutely hate homeschoolers. Homeschoolers can't participate in any school activities, and they've actually told people considering homeschooling that homeschoolers have no chances whatsoever in college, or anything else.</p>
<p>Well, why should a school allow homeschoolers to participate in school activities? the school funds the activities, yet they recieve no public funds/tuition for the home-schooled student that would participate.</p>
<p>Yes, we still pay taxes. Also, in our state, schools' money comes part from property taxes and part from the state (income tax). When they provide classes for homeschoolers, they can claim them as part-time students and thus receive more aid from the state. So it really is a win-win situation.</p>
<p>Here's a fact that most people who don't homeschool don't know: in many states, homeschoolers are forced to register with their local SCHOOL district. In some states, local SCHOOL districts oversee some aspect of homeschooling. I HATE THIS, but it is what it is. In places where school districts have input into homeschooling, they also have a responsibility to those families. So they absolutely should provide free services to homeschoolers, just as they do for their enrolled students.</p>
<p>In my state, which is civilized LOL, the local district has no say over educating my children. They don't oversee my homeschool program and I don't ask them for a thing. The district doesn't offer any trips, supplies, or curriculum to homeschoolers and I don't want what they've got anyway.<br>
However, the schools DO hold the work permits hostage, so I have to go get that from them.</p>
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Here's a fact that most people who don't homeschool don't know: in many states, homeschoolers are forced to register with their local SCHOOL district. In some states, local SCHOOL districts oversee some aspect of homeschooling. I HATE THIS, but it is what it is. In places where school districts have input into homeschooling, they also have a responsibility to those families. So they absolutely should provide free services to homeschoolers, just as they do for their enrolled students.
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<p>my district is like that, but i like how it is.</p>
<p>first of all, you can decide WHICH type of homeschooling you want to do. you can either choose to come to the district and learn things once a week, or you can just decide to do everything yourself and turn in your work every month. i do the latter, because i can't afford to come to the district every week. for both methods you need to fill out these 'log sheets' where you have to write what you did for every subject everyday. i'm okay with this, for sometimes i do loads of work at once and kind of divide it and put it into a day where i didn't do anything for that subject. :D</p>
<p>My school district doesnt have anything to do with homschoolers. They don't check on homeschoolers but they also hate homeschoolers. Technically they do control the work permits, but I just didn't get one...</p>
<p>We are not required to register with our school district, just the Educational Service District, which services many different school districts. We do not have to turn in any logs or anything, just take one of several options of standardized tests in grades 3, 5, 8, and 10. If we want to participate in interscholastic activities with the local school district (allowed by law), we must test yearly. That is because students IN the schools are required to keep a certain GPA to be included, so they require homeschoolers to do the same. (although the score required to participate is quite low)</p>
<p>Our district does not HAVE to allow homeschoolers to take classes there, but they do. My sons both took some classes at the local high school and enjoyed having that opportunity.</p>