Home schooling question?

Son Ahlers: Homeschooled students don't get those kinds of services from the public schools. If you are enrolled in an online school you will have to see what they offer; if your online school is put out by a public board of ed, they might offer you some things. A lot will depend on who funds your program-- If you pay for it, then no-- you only get what your program offers you from your program; it's like attending private school. Public schools don't owe you anything. If it's a free program that means it's probably publicly funded. Basically the whole reason some (not all) states do this is to not lose the money they would have gotten had the homeschoolers been attending school; so they offer programs and computers and all kinds of enticement to get kids to register as a virtual school student, which technically makes you a public school student and your district gets federal funding for you.If this is the case, they may offer you some services you'd have gotten had you ! been in school.Some homeschoolers don't want that, because it means you are then accountable to the school and have to follow the school's program, curriculum, testing, etc. (if we wanted to do that we'd just send the kids to school, you know?). But if you homeschool (without registering as a student at an online school), you are on your own....Show more

Tawny Grosskreutz: Online schools are not what is considered "home schooling".. in fact, most online schools are considered legal public schools, and as such have their own counselors and college prep directors.