A-Team member Robyn has started her own meetup!

Secular Homeschoolers
"Homeschoolers who choose to homeschool for reasons other than religion."

Check it out:
http://www.meetup.com...

Apparently she'll be attending a homeschooling conference where she will be very much in the minority.

Good luck with this, Robyn! I'm eager to learn more.

Heh...Mama Mortis is part of the group. :)

Heh...Mama Mortis is part of the group. :)

I seriously want to know more about this.

Heh...Mama Mortis is part of the group. :)

I seriously want to know more about this.

Well, what do you want to know?

yay me

Thanks Joy :)

ETA: Double thanks because seeing that group description again I now notice it is redundant and must be changed.

So why have you chosen to homeschool?

So why have you chosen to homeschool?

Mama Mortis decided to homeschool her two because they're both special needs and she couldn't find any public school that met her criteria for schooling.

So why have you chosen to homeschool?

Mama Mortis decided to homeschool her two because they're both special needs and she couldn't find any public school that met her criteria for schooling.

ABSOLUTELY. Kids with disabilities have been (and continue to be) egregiously ignored in the public school system. Their educational needs can be vastly different from each other, but mostly they are lumped together in "special education" classes. For example, all disabilities that do not effect IQ can be accommodated in the standard classroom. Assistive technology (thank you engineers <3) brought the disability experience out of the "dark ages" and continues to increase the success and decrease the cost of kids with disabilities in our school systems. Yet, those kids still get passed off.

My ignorance: I'd like to know a variety of ways homeschoolers handle access to the visual & performing arts.

Heh...Mama Mortis is part of the group. :)

I don't see you in the group. Do you have a son who joined it?

Their educational needs can be vastly different from each other, but mostly they are lumped together...

My ignorance: I'd like to know a variety of ways homeschoolers handle access to the visual & performing arts.

I'd say the same is true for children without disabilities. The differences are not as big, but children learn in different ways and at different speeds. One curriculum does not fit all. What's worse is that they are graded and may receive poor grades because they are not able to learn well the way they are being taught. Cue self esteem problems.

Anyway, art.

Theatre Cedar Rapids offers some sort of theatre camp (not sure what they call it exactly).
The Cedar Rapids Recreation Center offers various art classes.
There are various art curricula which you can buy.
The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art (or whatever museums one happens to live close to).

I've read about homeschoolers getting together and putting on plays, but I don't see that happening in Cedar Rapids. You can dual enroll your kids so that they can play on sports teams with the public schools; I should see if they would allow kids to duel enroll and try out for plays....