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There is so much information about homeschooling that it can seem overwhelming. We’ve gathered information to help you make your homeschooling decision and to inform you about laws and other legal issues. Here you’ll find research and statistics that support the notion that homeschooling provides specific advantages to children and families. And we’ll help you take the first steps on the road of your own homeschooling adventure.

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Planning a Homeschool Routine When You Are Homeschooling Multiple Children

How do you structure a homeschool day with four children? Do you teach each subject separately with each child? If not, what do you do together? This mom shares her strategies as she shows a day in her life.

Colorado Statute 22-32-116.5

Extracurricular and interscholastic activities. Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, each school district and each public school, subject to the requirements of this section, shall allow any student enrolled in a school or participating in a nonpublic home-based educational program to participate on an equal basis in any activity offered by the school district or the public school that is not offered at the student's school of attendance or through the student's nonpublic home-based educational program. A school district or school shall not adopt or agree to be bound by any rule or policy of any organization or association that would prohibit any participation allowed by this section. Each nonpublic school may allow a student to participate in a particular activity offered by the nonpublic school, at the nonpublic school's discretion.

The Privacy Advantages of Homeschooling

This academic paper exposes the expansion of information gathering and dissemination via the United States public school system and facilitates parental choices on how best to educate their children if privacy issues are a concern. Privacy is fundamentally the omission of outside interference; therefore, in attempting to demonstrate the privacy advantages of homeschooling, this work, for the most part, proves a negative by comparatively cataloging how much privacy is denied, or potentially denied, when students attend public schools. It then compares and contrasts students’ legal requirements regarding the types of information students must provide to government educational institutions and the information public schools and homeschools must or may gather or release. Finally, it examines homeschooling’s legal foundations and regulatory issues. and postulates challenges facing the future of homeschooling’s privacy advantages.

Physics Songs

A collection of wacky physics songs on everything from waves and oscillations to solid state physics, and more. A funny way to learn some of the concepts in physics.

HS-4-LessNewsletter: The Best of Homeschooling On A Budget

This newsletter aims to help you provide your children with a high quality homeschooling education at the lowest possible cost.

Curriculum Associates

Offers BRIGANCE Screening and Inventories products. Designed for use in elementary and middle schools, the CIBS-R is a valuable resource for programs serving students with special needs, and continues to be indispensable in IEP development and program planning.

Rosemarys Baby Bookstore

1430 S Wadsworth Blvd
Lakewood, CO 80232
Phone: 303-986-8799
Email: Roseymarysbooks@yahoo.com

Rosemary's Baby Bookstore is a fine used bookstore located in the heart of Lakewood, Colorado. They have been in business since December 1991. They offer a large selection of used books and audio books. Bring in your gently used books for store credit for future purchases.

The Socialization Secret

If you homeschool for long enough, you are bound to hear the question, “What about socialization?”. In fact, as soon as you announce to friends and family that you are even considering homeschooling, this question is probably among the first you’ll hear! Here’s the big homeschool secret that perhaps no one in the non-homeschooling world knows…homeschoolers are socialized. In fact, they are socialized in a more natural way than is typically found in a classroom.

Encouragement Forum at vegsource.com

If you are feeling burned out or need encouragement, this forum is for you. Share your struggles and get help, ideas, and support from those who have walked in your shoes.

Afrocentric Homeschoolers Association (AHA) Yahoo Group

A discussion group for pro-Black African and/or African Diasporan, Black homeschoolers, unschoolers, deschoolers, home-based educators everywhere. It is also open to non-homeschoolers and non-Blacks who are trying to teach their children about Blacks.