Statewide Correspondence Schools Take Money Away from Students | Homeschool 2.0 http://homeschool2point0.com/2007/10/profit-margins-for-statewide-correspondence-schools/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:40:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 Statewide Correspondence Schools Take Money Away from Students | Homeschool 2.0 http://homeschool2point0.com/2007/10/profit-margins-for-statewide-correspondence-schools/#comment-569 Gina Creedon Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:49:23 +0000 http://homeschool2point0.com/2007/10/profit-margins-for-statewide-correspondence-schools/#comment-569 The in-district home schools also operate below the BSA, and all the migrant funds and other special student allotments are just gravy. The in-district home schools also benefit the brick and mortar schools in other ways, like the recycling of home school computers to improve and maintain the technological capacities of the brick and mortar schools. Many parents will order the very same texts as the school uses, and the whole cost of these texts is subtracted from home school student allotment. When the texts are returned at the end of the year, they enter the pool of texts available for use in the brick and mortar schools. All-in-all an in-district home school is of benefit to the local district, and I am all for this: My children are supported and enriched by the local district schools. They participate in sports and dances, and even take an occasional class. One of them may choose to attend the 'big school', and if they do, it is a finer place through our efforts to home school. The school has been better funded, AND the school is enriched by a little different background and perspective of home schooled students. Everybody wins from in-district home school at full funding: Those students who attend the school have effectively higher per student funding and increased technology resources, and those who do not attend in the brick and mortar schools have the options most individually suited to their learning style - without missing out on all the other social and character building clubs, sports and organizations that are impossible to run from home schools. I see in-district supported home schools to be a win-win situation. Statewide home schools are not offering these extracurricular or curricular support services to home schoolers. In our local school the in-district home schoolers are not treated well when they access the resources of the local high school - even though these home schoolers *are* effectively contributing to the local schools, because so many non-district kids also enter the school to use the support services. It is possible that the structure or style of management of home school reporting and support at a particular state-wide correspondence school is a more comfortable or effective option for a particular family. It is a shame that these students must give up access to local support to get the management style they need to succeed... Perhaps statewide schools ought to have a sort of per student local kick-back levied against the student allotment so that these home schoolers also can benefit from local services and opportunities at their nearby school - without creating an unfunded burden on their home district schools. The in-district home schools also operate below the BSA, and all the migrant funds and other special student allotments are just gravy. The in-district home schools also benefit the brick and mortar schools in other ways, like the recycling of home school computers to improve and maintain the technological capacities of the brick and mortar schools. Many parents will order the very same texts as the school uses, and the whole cost of these texts is subtracted from home school student allotment. When the texts are returned at the end of the year, they enter the pool of texts available for use in the brick and mortar schools.

All-in-all an in-district home school is of benefit to the local district, and I am all for this: My children are supported and enriched by the local district schools. They participate in sports and dances, and even take an occasional class. One of them may choose to attend the ‘big school’, and if they do, it is a finer place through our efforts to home school. The school has been better funded, AND the school is enriched by a little different background and perspective of home schooled students.

Everybody wins from in-district home school at full funding: Those students who attend the school have effectively higher per student funding and increased technology resources, and those who do not attend in the brick and mortar schools have the options most individually suited to their learning style - without missing out on all the other social and character building clubs, sports and organizations that are impossible to run from home schools.

I see in-district supported home schools to be a win-win situation.

Statewide home schools are not offering these extracurricular or curricular support services to home schoolers. In our local school the in-district home schoolers are not treated well when they access the resources of the local high school - even though these home schoolers *are* effectively contributing to the local schools, because so many non-district kids also enter the school to use the support services.

It is possible that the structure or style of management of home school reporting and support at a particular state-wide correspondence school is a more comfortable or effective option for a particular family. It is a shame that these students must give up access to local support to get the management style they need to succeed…

Perhaps statewide schools ought to have a sort of per student local kick-back levied against the student allotment so that these home schoolers also can benefit from local services and opportunities at their nearby school - without creating an unfunded burden on their home district schools.

]]> Statewide Correspondence Schools Take Money Away from Students | Homeschool 2.0 http://homeschool2point0.com/2007/10/profit-margins-for-statewide-correspondence-schools/#comment-138 Paula Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:06:46 +0000 http://homeschool2point0.com/2007/10/profit-margins-for-statewide-correspondence-schools/#comment-138 Ugh!! Nuf said? Ugh!! Nuf said?

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