Well, we're keeping Catie home, but she'll still be in public school. How do we manage that? The wonder of cyber charter schools! She's starting in Agora k12 as soon as we can process the paperwork.
The upside - prepared curriculum, all materials provided (including a computer and printer), a teacher assigned to help her, she can work at her own pace, field trips, days out, and I can help her without wondering if I'm leaving out a crucial piece of information.
the downside - it is a public school, so she has to log in on school days or face attendance problems. Although she only has to spend about a quarter of her time on the computer, she has to log 900 hours of "school time" in the year - that means a log book chronicaling all the days activities. It still is a good bit of work for me, but not as much as homeschooling.
addendum - Mom was still willing to teach Catie, but her schedule is such that I need to be able to take over the instruction time for 2-3 days in the week. Besides, the quality of these programs online is such that if we went out to buy them as homeschooling materials it would cost two appendages and an internal organ.
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