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Homeschooling in Richmond
Richmond, VA, is a great place to educate your children at home. There are many support groups and regular homeschool events.
If you are homeschooling your children, or considering homeschooling our children, then this is the place to start.
If you need information about the Virginia law with respect to homeschooling, then visit the the statewide homeschool support groups VaHomeschoolers and HEAV.
There are many different homeschool styles or methods including classical education, Charlotte Mason, unschooling (or child-led learning), eclectic, unit studies, Waldorf method, Montessori and traditional/school at home.
Why homeschool?
People decide to homeschool for many reasons: academic, social,
political, religious, philosophical, and so on.
Common to most parents' decision is a love for their children and
wanting to do what is best for their them. Homeschooling allows a
tailor-made education. It builds relationships while families live and
learn together.
Homeschooling in the News
Out of school, into the home
"A Henrico mother chooses home schooling over special education for her
two autistic children."
Richmond Times Dispatch, 6/21/08
Home-school effort becoming mainstream
"Once illegal in Va., the practice now is growing in state"
Richmond Times Dispatch, 6/7/08
Homeschooled applicants attractive to top liberal arts colleges,
admission officers say
"homeschoolers have become highly desirable as applicants to some of the
best institutions of higher learning"
University (of Richmond) Communications, 12/19/05