I want to home school my children in Houston, Texas?

I want to home school my children in Houston, Texas? I am fed up with the Houston School system and want to home school my children. Where can I locally get the necessary information or the legal requirements to start home schooling my children? Home Schooling - 9 Answers Random Answers, Critics, Comments, Opinions : 1 http://www.houstonhomeschool.org/ 2 www.hslda.org You can find your state laws there. 3 go to this site - www.homeschooling.org 4 Texas Home School Coalition http://www.thsc.org 5 If you are planning on homeschooling starting in the fall, there's nothing you need to do! Just homeschool as you see fit. If you are pulling them, check a homeschool support group site for Texas for recommendations on a letter to provide to the school. 6 I wouldn't recommend homeschooling, but instead try charter school. It is "homeschooling" online. You don't have to do anything teaching wise, there are teachers who do everything for you. I am cyber schooled, and it is the best decision my parents and I could have made. Depending on how old your children are, they may still need essential social skills. Homeschooling somewhat isolates them from others, and they are not able to develope good skills with others. The cyber school that I am in has chatrooms that you can interact with other students and your teachers. We even have field trips, prom, and a graduation ceremony. All cyber schools are different, but most are basically run the same. It is just like attending a brick and mortar school, just in the comfort of your home, and your own schedule. There are low cost schools (mines free!), so you wouldn't have to worry about that. They gave me a computer, and all the accessories, books, and even pay for my internet and my parent's internet. It is really worth looking into! Good luck finding a school for your kids! 7 You are very lucky you live in Texas (so do we). Texas is one of the easiest places to homeschool because the requirements are non-existent. All you need to do is send a letter of withdrawal (via registered mail - receipt requested) to the school(s) your children attend. THSC has a sample letter on their website. You do NOT need to go to the school or fill out any of their paperwork. I'm a certain that there are MANY homeschooling groups in Houston. You should do a search for "homeschool" and your particular area of Houston (Katy, Clear Lake, etc.) THSC lists one main support group in Houston (see link below). If you need any further info on homeschooling in Texas, feel free to email me. Best wishes! 8 http://www.hslda.org/ is probably the best place to get the information about legal requirements and so forth. (Except maybe the one that the person directly above me put on!) Vision Forum is a company dedicated to the restoration of the Christian family and has some of the best homeschooling material you can find anywhere. They're located in San Antonio (about a 3 hour drive from Houston). http://www.visionforum.com/ is the bookstore. http://www.visionforum.org/ is their ministries page. One of the best books to get you started would be "Safely Home", by Tom Eldredge. (It's available at Vision Forum) Steven and Teri Maxwell also have a lot of great information on homeschooling. http://www.titus2.com/ http://www.nogreaterjoy.org/ is another great one! God Bless! 9 Just do it. No need to legally do anything. Just inform the district as such and preto. You do need to settle on what kind of curicullum to use. We did Bob Jones and A-Beka. If the school is dragging you kid down. I'd go it and don't look back. There are alot of support groups out there that you can network with. Houston Home School Association puts on an event in early June that has all of the resources that you need. All of the testbook publishers are there and you can talk to them. I went for a couple of years and it was really cool. I love to read so I really enjoyed seeing what our kids were going to learn about. My wife did all of the teaching though. I supported her morally as well as reading to our kids at night and helping them read and with their work when needed. It's kinda cool.