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monica4patience
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Posted: July 28 2014 at 3:20pm \| IP Logged

DS14 us returning to the school system: a charter high school. He's excited. It's the right move for him at this time.

Unfortunately for me it's the pits. I was really getting into homeschooling. I liked the challenge, finding the right curriculum fit; web searches; learning new things; reading homeschool blogs. I wish I had homeschooled from the beginning...but that's lots of water under the bridge.

What do I do now? I know with my new Diabetes diagnosis, that I need to focus on my health: eating right and exercising. But I will really miss the homeschooling part. I could go back to work. We really need the money. But I still want to be available for DS14...and DS22 (with special needs) still lives at home and needs rides, doctor appointment, therapy appointments, supervision.

Friends have suggested that I become a homeschool resource person and hook up with some of the local coops. We never did the coop thing because I didn't want anyone else teaching him until I knew more about his LD and how he learned. Has anyone heard of or used a homeschool resource person to help figure out curriculum, leaning issues, etc.

I have a BA in Early Childhood Education w/ (lapsed) Teaching Certificate K-8; MS in Family and Child Development.

Any suggestions?

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Posted: July 28 2014 at 4:07pm \| IP Logged

Could you do homeschool evaluations, or would your teaching certificate need to be current?

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monica4patience
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Posted: July 28 2014 at 5:06pm \| IP Logged

What are homeschool evaluations? Not sure what I'd have to do to get current teaching certificate.

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Posted: July 28 2014 at 5:08pm \| IP Logged

This probably isn't what you are thinking, but your church probably needs help with something. Another woman and I have been trying for a year to find another who would help us with the mounds of altar linen for our big city church. It takes a very long time to fold and iron purificators, starch corporals, work on stained altar linen, repair cassocks, get wax off the floor, mend vestments, remove dying funeral flowers, etc. So many things are done by volunteers and those volunteers are getting older.

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Posted: July 28 2014 at 6:03pm \| IP Logged

monica4patience wrote:

What are homeschool evaluations? Not sure what I'd have to do to get current teaching certificate.

Oh, wow, just noticed that you live in Michigan. Here in NH we have to either test our child each year or submit to an evaluation of progress in our homeschool (by someone certified to teach). I guess you don't need to do that in Michigan.

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