Why Home Schooling
Increase taxes to support education and increasing in the future hurt many people
Save Costs (transportation, teachers, buildings, benefits)
Create Lifelong education curriculum
Multiple languages easy to implement with voiceovers rather than teachers
One teacher and one video class can reach millions
One class could be usable for years
Estimates of thousands of teachers’ needed and new buildings would create more taxes
Classes are limited as is hours and days available but not those that are saved
Schools require teachers for multiple languages this only needs translators
Teaching career is not highly paid and many leave every year causing problems
Video tapped classes can be updated easily and cheaply
Colleges and businesses use remote access for people at home and more parents can work from home
Broadband Internet with speeds increasing yearly
Involve parents, grandparents, religious affiliations, friends and neighbors
Television / HDVT can accommodate 4 stations on one channel
Can handle multiple users on one link and they can multi-task
Personal computers getting cheaper and most home have
Laptops, wireless access
Local Area Networks and apartments, condos
TV connected terminal for under $200
TIVO classes for review
DVD RW for saving classes
VHS for savings and sharing classes
Cable/DSL/Power Grid
Videotape classes
Video conferencing / Instant Message / e-Mail /
Software
Certification for classes attended and tests past
Small groups could meet in homes
Create a testing center
National certification and
Stronger families relations and involvements of parents as mentors
Lower taxes could allow a parent to stay home from work
Richer curriculum, multiple courses and languages
Flexible schedule for student and family, 24/7, no early or late school bus waits
More funds go directly to education and not other
No snow days, sick days, teacher days required
Classes could be credited by sponsors and thus cost little or bring in additional funds
Social activities created by communities, groups, religious affiliations, etc.
Students could have a core curriculum that must be taken
Families/students could live anywhere that they have power line access
Field trips to museums, locations, zoos. Etc. with parents and friends
May take years to switch or could be very quickly as soon as classes are created
Tobacco Windfall
Grants
Sponsors
Taxes redirected
Sell current buildings as they become available
Sell furniture, equipment, buses, and land, etc.
Assist in finding jobs
Reduce positions, mentors, and monitors, etc.
Home school incentives
Lower taxes