Martha R. wrote:
Homeschooling can get pretty expensive if you do classes through some of the organized programs like Classical Conversations or the homeschooling "schools." There is a classical school in the next county that caters to homeschoolers and it's really expensive! With all the resources on the internet, there is no reason to spend much on homeschooling at all! If you are creative and have an internet connection, you can do it free!
I didn't know anything about the fee schedule for CC - so I looked it up after you mentioned it. I found this link
http://theten0clockscholar.blogspot.com ... sical.html which seems to indicate that it's under $500/year/kid. While that seems very expensive to *me* (the girl who buys many of her HS books for 29cents at the thrift store), it's still WAY under the average public school "back to school" expenditure - which doesn't even cover curriculum & instruction (14k/kid/year of tax money)
Now, granted, if you do CC AND buy a designer wardrobe brand new for your kid, you *could* go over the public school "back to school" costs, as published by the National Retail Federation
Which is all to say, Martha, that I *agree* with you - this stuff *can* be done for cheap or for free! but, even the "high end" stuff isn't that bad in comparison to public school costs.