Getting Started in Homeschooling
Here you'll find information about "how-to's", resources, curriculum, support groups, agencies, and legal requirements to make your Christian home education experience as rewarding and fulfilling as possible.
The ideal situation is when interested parents have time - weeks or months - before the actual schooling experience begins. Spend that time interacting with other home educators, reading materials about home education, and looking over different curricula. Think about what will work best in your particular situation.
![[Coss family dissecting sheep's heart]](images/14homeschoolrock.jpg)
HOME SURGERY
Drs. Steven and Susan Coss with their children, Jennifer, 8, Catherine, 10, and Steven, 7, examine a sheep's heart as part of their home-schooling curriculum. The heart was detached from the lungs and trachea which are being held by Steven. Dr. Susan Coss gave up her medical practice to home school her children.
Full article here.
If you need to remove your child from public school right now, you need to take some immediate steps. You can review the rest of this later!
Approaches to Home Education - and related philosophies
Legal Coverage - strongly encouraged
Support - take advantage of opportunities
Special Needs resources
Finally, the specifics of home educating in Ohio. This PowerPoint presentation* provides a good overview, and here are the details:
Notification - one of your responsibilities
Assessments - Plan ahead!
CHESCA has also placed our new updated short introductory Library Manual
in all Stark county district libraries.
* You may need to download a Microsoft PowerPoint viewer.
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