Today we have our first meeting (finally!) with our Educational Facilitator. There were some kinks with the whole faxing in of the new application. Technology. Bleh. Whatever happened to the good ‘ole days of going to the office and filling out the papers and dropping them off? Well, I’m lazy for one.

We are really excited about this program and are anxious to get started. One of the things that we’re really excited about is the fact that I can teach, and my son can learn, however we want. He’s more of a hands on type of person and really doesn’t like book work and traditional worksheets. We have several packages for different learning styles that we can choose from. We are also given 700 Educational Credits, or ‘EUs’ per year that we can use for different things, which will be really helpful for the subjects that I will have difficulty with, or cannot, teach. FYI, I quit school at the beginning of the second semester of 10th grade. So algebra may present a bit of a problem. The solution is that they have a learning center in Mission Valley, about 5 minutes from me, where they offer classes on various subjects ranging from algebra and history to arts and music. You pay for them with your EUs and it doesn’t cost anything. Unless, of course, you run out of EUs. The EUs can also be used at various places throughout the county. The school also maintains a list of vendors who accept the EUs. This way I can find him a private tutor to continue his violin and that will be considered an elective which I won’t have to pay for. Or he can enroll in Tae Kwon Do for PE, since he’s already earned his yellow belt, and it won’t cost anything. Anyway, you get the idea.

So today we will meet with our EF and we will receive all of our information. I do believe I’ll be adding a homeschooling subdomain to my website, along with a homeschooling blog. It’s hard to find quality information from individual’s websites and I would like to share what we learn. I suppose that’s the next thing I’ll be working on.