Question for Home Schooling Kids

[cookderosa]

Hello Everyone,

My kids are getting to the tender age of starting Kindergarten in September! Woot Woot, the other is starting pre-school.
I was wondering would it save more $ if I get my wife to home school the kids? Or would it be better to have her working?
If I get my wife to work, we can potentially have the grand parents take over the home schooling activities as they've retired.

Will it be a bit of a dent in the wallet compared to actually going to school? Does anyone here use distributed learning?
Or is all the courses correspondence/online? Even if they're starting from kindergarten onwards up to graduation?
It's just a thought as I would like them to learn more than the "general curriculum" at the primary school near by.

Decisions, Decisions,
Thanks all!

You'll want to check and see if grandparents can legally homeschool your kids in your state, and if so, if you need to do anything special- that could be a factor.

There are so many free and inexpensive resources, that I would go so far as to say ic can be less money. That said, your wife will WANT things that cost money- having the world as your oyster means wanting to visit museums and sign up for art classes and take music lessons and join sports and play groups- so believe me that it's easy to spend money. We have 4 children, so we have saved by using textbooks down the line- in other words, my 11 year old's math book was also used by his 3 older brothers. Math is math, no reason to reinvent the wheel each year and try the latest and greatest. We have done some curriculum changes through the years after thinking we "had" to try this or that because someone else loved it- and we hated it- those missteps cost money and time of course (and let me inject a plug that I'm starting a new business this fall- I'm starting a curriculum rental business!)

But in general, I will say that cost aside, the rewards of spending time with my children have been worth any potential sacrifice. I budget and we make it happen. Abe Lincoln learned with a bible and a candle, I think we can swing it in the burbs.

PS I will say in my opinion, it probably costs more to homeschool than public school but considerably less than private school.