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Frequently Asked Questions

1. How Much Does This Cost? A frequent questions concerns costs for enrollment and attendance to Internet Home School. This can be found at http://www.internethomeschool.com/index_pages/about_ihs/cost.html You will notice that two payments plans are available, as well as a single course enrollment plan.

2. What are the State Home School Requirements for My State?: Click on http://www.hslda.org/laws/default.asp to locate the requirements for your state.

3. What about students with illness?: Parents often write to tell of a child with illness that keeps them out of school too long, or with depression, or with some other medical treatable condition. Because the illness limits the child's ability to keep up with school, parents seek options. We originally began this school with the philosophy of working with children with special needs.

4. Dissatisfied with Local School?: Many parents elect to enroll their children with us because they are dissatisfied with the curriculum of the school, the size of classes, or the lack of attention that their children need from teachers and administrators.

5. What if we move around the country a lot? Parents whose jobs keep them on the road, traveling quite a bit enroll their children with us. A student can access our web site from anywhere in the world to keep up, keep in touch, and chat with other students and instructors.

6. How about my child's socialization? How does the Internet Home School deal with making sure that students still socialize while obtaining their education on-line? We urge parents to seek opportunities for group and individual interaction in choirs, bands, community theater, sports, and joining clubs. Some of these activities also fit the requirements for physical education, such as karate, dance class, etc.

7. How do we get started: Your question regarding how this Internet Home School program works is explained in the steps listed below.

a. Print the enrollment form (located in " enroll now "), complete the information requests and fax to us at 928-708-9384

b. If parents have current school transcript, also fax that document to us.

c. We receive verification of payment.

d. We send a letter to the former school advising them of students name and enrollment in our school.

e We call or email the parent to arrange:

1) An on-line orientation,

2) Parents and students passwords issued for entry into files..

3) Instructions to identify the assessment tests to administer tests to student.

f. Student completes tests and parents emails or faxes to school.

g Comparison of assessment levels and transcripts made to determine course of study.

h. Book identified, packed, and shipped by U.S.P.S to the students home. List of on line instructors sent by email to parents email address.

8. Do students do well with this type of study? A student learning over the internet can get as much done in 4 hours a day as do students who attend school away from home. Then, factor in the time saved in transportation to and from school, the time in moving between classes, and the distractions that occur during class, and most people find that the time in studies is more concentrated and learning takes place quicker.

9. How important is accreditation? Many types of accreditation can be claimed. originally, six regional associations in the U.S were formed to standardize the methods of schooling, adequate libraries, and certified teaching and professional administrative staff. These standards must be met before a school can be accredited. The value of having accreditation is the transferability of credits from one school to another within the six regional associations membership. Accreditation is also significant with a majority of colleges and universities..

10. What if I wish to Return to Former School: From time to time, parents wish to pull their child out of the local school for a variety of reasons and indicate a desire to return the child to the local school at a later date. In these cases, it is best to get an agreement from the school for the return, so that there are no surprises later on a transfer of credits. Some schools that are not accredited by regional accrediting agencies can be pretty sticky with transfer credits.

11. What are some reasons for parents who enroll in this Internet Home School?

From the requests for information over the years, these are the major reasons parents consider enrolling their children in this school.

a. Classes are too crowded and students don't get the attention they need.

b. The local school is considered an unsafe environment.

c. Gangs, drugs, and peer pressure.

d. Local school is too large, and administration doesn't care about the individual student.

e. The child has a learning disability, and local schools cannot accommodate classes to the individual needs.

f. parents have more input, and more control over the child's progress and remain better informed with I.H.S.

12. How Soon Can My Child Enroll? We offer Â“open enrollmentÂ” at any time during the year. If a student is in the middle of a semester, and wishes to leave his or her school, we can place the student in the correct quarter to correspond to the part of the school work already completed. Parents need not wait until the end of a grading period or semester before withdrawing from the local school.

13. How does this type of learning work? This question asks how we use the internet, textbooks, and on-line instructors to provide a quality education to our students. it works this way: The newly enrolled student is administered an on-line assessment in English and Math. That assessment is compared to the transcripts we receive from the former school. We then prescribe courses, selected and mail textbooks, and set up an on-line orientation with the student and parents. The student accesses the syllabus for each course, and finds the weekly assignments that need to be completed as he or she works through the assigned work. Students who wish to, may join on-line classes in chat room, net meeting, or instant messages, and communicate with other students and teachers. When the weekly work and weekly exams have been completed and graded, the student makes a request for the quarterly exam. Access to exams is controlled by password codes, and the student completes the exam, and in some cases sends it back on line.