Who pays the cost for homeschooling?
Washington County, Virginia has about 222 homeschooling students costing the system $1,020,0000 per year ($4600 each) in state funding. Bristol, Virginia has 28 costing them $130,000. The students register with the school system, their curricula must be approved by the division, and they must be evaluated yearly. What isn’t clear is does this continue once the students are pass the age to legally drop out of school? They take standardized tests and schools (public and private hoping to get the students back) help families with used textbooks or participation in drivers education. At least 1,000 students are homeschooled in this region according to state records. Nationally, 2.1 million. The big loser is private Christian schools. Many have suffered from enrollment declines with Tri-Cities Christian Schools suffering a cash flow problem. But is this enrollment problem due to the region’s bad economy or homeschooling? That wasn’t answered, but the news articles indicate it isn’t about mo
