We're in Iowa. My DS will turn 5 in January so I should probably start actively HS'ing him next September.
Only problem is I'm sort of confused as to how to go about it.
My aunt HS's her kids but she hires a supervising teacher and has several meetings with this person a year. I'm not wanting to do that, it sounds like a PITB plus it's an expense we don't have money for. My aunt pays something like $200 or so a year...quite honestly we don't have that kind of money in addition to buying curriculum.
So I'm leaning toward doing either the standardized testing (not what I want to do at all) or doing the portfolio where I'd just have to have a licensed teacher look at it (There are a couple teachers at our church, I bet I could sweet talk them into signing the form...but I don't feel right asking them to devote tons of time to my family through the year when they have enough on their plates with budget cuts and their jobs and yadda yadda yadda...once a year "Yup, kid is learning" X on the dotted line is less involved than 8 meetings a year)
Anyone with any experience with this? My aunt is really discouraging of the portfolio idea, she said hardly anyone does that because it requires so much record keeping and stuff.
I don't really WANT to do the ITBS every year because I hated them as a kid and I don't want to teach for the test and junk...I'd prefer to do the portfolio but not sure how to go about it.
Anyone with experience?
Only problem is I'm sort of confused as to how to go about it.
My aunt HS's her kids but she hires a supervising teacher and has several meetings with this person a year. I'm not wanting to do that, it sounds like a PITB plus it's an expense we don't have money for. My aunt pays something like $200 or so a year...quite honestly we don't have that kind of money in addition to buying curriculum.
So I'm leaning toward doing either the standardized testing (not what I want to do at all) or doing the portfolio where I'd just have to have a licensed teacher look at it (There are a couple teachers at our church, I bet I could sweet talk them into signing the form...but I don't feel right asking them to devote tons of time to my family through the year when they have enough on their plates with budget cuts and their jobs and yadda yadda yadda...once a year "Yup, kid is learning" X on the dotted line is less involved than 8 meetings a year)
Anyone with any experience with this? My aunt is really discouraging of the portfolio idea, she said hardly anyone does that because it requires so much record keeping and stuff.
I don't really WANT to do the ITBS every year because I hated them as a kid and I don't want to teach for the test and junk...I'd prefer to do the portfolio but not sure how to go about it.
Anyone with experience?
there are not -- or i have never seen -- actually scores they have to achieve.
they have all the forms you need on the site and their explanations are very clear. Order their "new to HS" packet -- you do not have to join -- and it is a great reference guid to the laws and requirements and options.
