| When people consider teaching their children | | | | of course have a substantial impact on the |
| at home, without any structured curriculum, | | | | family's income. |
| they may think that the home schooling costs | | | | |
| will be able to be kept down to a reasonable | | | | Having a membership in a public library, |
| level. But this is not necessarily the case | | | | various outside activity classes and other |
| at all. If you try to ensure that your | | | | cultural events can also help in keeping the |
| children get a state of the art education so | | | | costs down. One idea is to barter expertise |
| that they can compete on a level footing with | | | | or services. For example, the parent of a |
| regular school goers, the costs can | | | | nine year old has dancing classes; her |
| skyrocket. In actual fact schooling a child | | | | daughter gets drawing classes in return. |
| at home can turn out to be quite costly. | | | | |
| | | | However much it costs, the devotees of home |
| A computer, current textbooks, course | | | | schooling state that the benefits more than |
| materials, all these things cost some amount | | | | outweigh the drawbacks. When you are in |
| of money, also there are extra costs for any | | | | control of what knowledge your child |
| tutors the parent decides to bring in to | | | | receives, and what subjects he or she should |
| teach subjects that they cannot teach | | | | be taught and to what level, it can give you |
| themselves, such as science or higher level | | | | loads of freedom and a lot of power. The |
| maths. These costs can be minimised when | | | | children and also the parents can benefit |
| several children are able to reuse the | | | | greatly from this mutually enriching |
| materials. | | | | experience. |
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| Another point to consider is that the | | | | James Hunaban is the owner of a site full |
| requirement of having one of the parents tied | | | | of information and advice about Home |
| to the home on a full time basis can deprive | | | | Schooling. |
| the family of an extra wage packet. This can, | | | | |