Homeschool Economics

Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum

CCSD spends ~$13,000 per kid. It doesn't matter to me whether they spend it all on teacher salaries or condoms. It's all waste.

We homeschool. We do it for a small FRACTION of what public school is getting per kid. Yes, that's after classroom expense (kitchen table), teacher salary (mom), and school lunch program (mom's gourmet cooking).

Nobody cares how much we pay our faculty/staff (ourselves) or how much formal education we possess. No studies or correlations.

We know our kids' strengths and weaknesses. The things we emphasize (like reading) they do as well as they can. The things we don't care about (like "diversity") they are ignorant of. No endless assessment testing.

We permit ZERO government involvement in our school. We don't spend a nickel on regulatory compliance -- floor plans, credentials, insurance, mandates, etc. We don't retain $100K consultants to search for a Superintendent. We don't maintain a legal department.

All our spending is "smart".