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A lot of people want online curriculum to use in homeschooling. There are many options online. Obviously some are better than others. Many are meant to be supplementary. Some are full of busy work. Some allow students to work at their pace while others have a required pace. Some have pre-recorded lessons, while some have gamified learning or live lessons, or a combination of these.
Looking at reviews online on sites other than the curriculum site can help discover what others think of the curriculum. Sites such as Cathy Duffy's homeschool reviews can help. Why would anyone refuse the free money that goes with the PEP? This is a question that I’ve been asked a lot lately. Free is good; isn’t it? Why would anyone turn down free money? Why wouldn’t homeschooling families take the money? What are they worried about? Even at the high school level, parents can direct their student's homeschool program and can choose to use published curriculum of their choice or can choose to use materials and/or methods that weren't necessarily designed to be curriculum. Below are just a few of the many options available.
See https://www.flhomeschoolevaluations.com/curriculum.html for more suggestions. Teens (especially) Not Motivated to Learn and/or Not Cooperating with Homeschooling?
Re: Reported issue in Lee County
I have been informed that Lee County's home education department is not following Florida law in regard to letters of intent to start Home Education--That they have told some families that they cannot remove their children from a public school to start homeschooling until the marking period is over and grades are posted. This is not in line with Florida law, which specifically states that the letter of intent is to be immediately recorded once it is sent.
The Florida Dept of Education is looking for input from parents and others, including homeschooling parents, on how to reduce regulation of public schools.
See the notice below:
The newly expanded FTC scholarship Student Learning Plans Via the school choice bill that passed a few weeks ago, the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship will give government funding to parents that can be used for a new homeschooling option called the Personalized Education Program (or PEP). The scholarship will be open for 20,000 more students this coming school year and 40,000 more the next year, and more the next year. The scholarship will offer serious money that will vary depending on the school district and grade level of the student  There is no "best" curriculum, even when it comes to online curriculum, because children are not all the same--what works well for one student may be a disaster for another. This list includes a variety of options that, based on our experience, are popular with homeschool families. (Being included on our list does not imply our endorsement of any.) Note that new options are popping up all the time but some are scams so vet them carefully before spending money on them.
A: A couple of decades ago, one child greatly affected my views on teaching children to read. This boy was about 8 or maybe 9 years old when his parents brought him to the tutoring company where I then worked as a full-time tutor. An important update from Brenda Dickenson the President of FLHEF regarding HB1.
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