homeschooling By MissO

I was homeschooled from 4th to 12th grade and my parents have always homeschooled my sister (now in 11th grade), so I do have some experience.

I'm not sure there is an online homeschooling program. The essence of

homeschooling is that the parents actually teach the children using resources that they order from publishing companies. Your colleague may have trouble finding resources without a blatantly Christian message - I don't know if that's a problem for your colleague or not - just saying. Most of the curriculum I know about comes from Christian publishers. There is high-quality curriculum

out there, but it does require a lot of work from the parents in order to ensure that learning is taking place.

A Beka Books (Pensacola, FL) does produce a "video school," which consists of DVDs of classes filmed at their academy. This is for junior high and high school, though. A Beka produces textbooks for all grades, but again, your colleague would definitely deal with a quite conservative perspective, not to mention a traditional/behaviorist approach to learning.

I believe Saxon Math still produces material for homeschoolers, and I'm not sure of the level of religious influence there. I've heard that they have high quality materials, but I'm not that familiar with them.

I hope I helped - I'm not really a homeschooling advocate either, though I came from that background - a lot depends on the individual situation. Hopefully your colleague can find something that works for the child.

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