HomeSchooled in the Burgh!: Before I forget...

Can't Find a Good School for Your Kids? Buy One!

What does Will Smith do when he can't find a decent school for his kids? He buys them their own.

The actor recently paid $889,000 to lease Indian Hills High School in Calabasas, Calif., after failing to find a decent educational program for his two young children. Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, have been home schooling their brood until now. According to People:

"We started home-schooling our children probably six years ago," he said. "We found about eight or nine other parents that home-school, so we put them together. ... There's just very powerful educational concepts that we believe in, and we feel like 'I want to design the system that revolutionizes public education.' "

In 2005, Jada Pinkett-Smith told Essence that the decision behind home-schooling came from their dissatisfaction with current models of education.

"The school system in this country -- public and private -- is designed for the industrial age," she said. "We're in a technological age. We don't want our kids to memorize. We want them to learn."

Parents just don't understand, huh Will?

While most people will find it difficult to provide their kids with a school of their own, that doesn't mean you shouldn't be involved with your child's education.

source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/newsandviews/2008/05/cant_find_a_good_school_for_yo.html

I wanted to share with you a website I use for part of my curriculum- it's called Time4Learning.com. Many of you may have heard of this program. Those who haven't, it's an online educational program used by small children in preschool to older kids in the eighth grade. My son who is in the kindergarten level uses it daily. We use it for science, math and language arts (reading, spelling, phonics, etc.).

Because my son's level of comprehension differ in each subject, he can work at his own pace. This program is very engaging with the use of tutorials, games and interactive videos with the ability to set a time limit to. When each subject is completed you can have your child complete a quiz/test or repeat the lessons until they truly get the understanding of it. Parents can keep track of their child's progress and print it out by day, week or month. I really appreciate that.

Like I said in the beginning, it is part of our curriculum and this program allows us to subsidize the lessons used in schools that are correspondent to the standards met bet by that state.

I received a nonbinding 14 day trial and a choice to cancel anytime. If you try and like it, you have made a smart investment. Remember you can cancel anytime with a money back guarantee. Also the website has demo lessons you can try out before even signing up for a trial itself.

So if you're homeschooling or need a supplement for your child's already educational program, this is a choice to look into.

Time4Learning.com