| The overcrowded classrooms, schoolyard | | | | and maintain lesson plans for a curriculum that is |
| violence, and access to illegal drug which has been | | | | on par with your child's grade level. |
| making inroads into the Georgia public school | | | | To meet the requirements for home schooling in |
| system in recent years has many Georgia | | | | Georgia, you'll have to keep a daily log of your |
| parents looking at the requirements for home | | | | child's work, and do a full review at the end of |
| schooling in Georgia. They would much rather take | | | | each school year. Because the school district |
| the time away from their own interest and | | | | superintendent has the right to review you logs |
| activities to ensure that their children are getting a | | | | and annual review, it's recommended that you |
| safe and adequate education than send them into | | | | keep your old ones for at least three years. You |
| a public school environment which is seeing many | | | | are also required to school your child for, at the |
| of its students fail to graduate. | | | | minimum, four and one-half hours daily, and |
| Every state in the US allows home schooling, and | | | | submit a proof of your child's attendance to the |
| has established curriculum standards to which | | | | school district each month. |
| parents must adhere; but because more families | | | | Requirements For Home Schooling In Georgia |
| are practicing home schooling in Georgia, the | | | | You're not required to have any teaching |
| restrictions on them are somewhat less stringent | | | | experience, or even a degree in education, to |
| than those on parents in other states. | | | | qualify to home school your children. If you decide |
| Starting The Home Schooling Process | | | | to hire a tutor to home school your children in |
| The first step you should take in preparing for | | | | Georgia, however, the tutor will have to have a |
| home schooling your child in Georgia is to notify | | | | teaching certificate. And your school district will |
| your school district superintendent that you intend | | | | provide you with manuals to assist you, as well as |
| to do it. You will have to repeat this process each | | | | give you referrals to home schooling experts who |
| year that your child is being home schooled. And | | | | can offer guidance if you run into any obstacles. |
| you must then plan a curriculum and daily lesson | | | | Home schooling in Georgia will give you a |
| plans which are the equivalent of those used for | | | | marvelous opportunity to help share your child's |
| public school children in the same grade as your | | | | mind and to share in the excitement of every |
| child. | | | | new discovery in a way you never could by |
| If you would like to home school your child, you | | | | sending him or her to a public school. But you will |
| can start by notifying the superintendent of their | | | | have to exercise patience and discipline, and be |
| school district that their child will be home | | | | flexible. Educating your children may test your |
| schooled. This has to be done for every year of | | | | good humor at times, but it will also be the |
| home schooling. Additionally, you must also create | | | | greatest adventure of your life! |