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Getting some of my own money back
« on: August 07, 2013, 08:39:05 PM »
Apparently a school district in Bellingham (half an hpur north of us) has a program where homeschooling parents can get some state funding.  Basically the district will buy for you almost any non-religious curriculum and send it to you.  Durable items (e.g. textbooks that don't get written in) have to be given back at the end of the school year so other parents can borrow them.

Anyway, it's either $1000 per kid or per family as a max benefit.  Better than a sharp stick in the eye.
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Re: Getting some of my own money back
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2013, 09:06:49 PM »
We found that home school expense wasn't any more than the list of crap that your kids were supposed to have just to attend public schools.  ;/
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Re: Getting some of my own money back
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2013, 09:14:39 PM »
I think for half a year last school year we spent $430.  So yeah, not much different from all the school suplies.
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Re: Getting some of my own money back
« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2013, 10:06:15 PM »
Quote from: sumpnz on August 07, 2013, 08:39:05 PM
Durable items (e.g. textbooks that don't get written in) have to be given back at the end of the school year so other parents can borrow them.

Wait, they're making kids buy their own textbooks these days? When I was a kid, the school provided the textbook and you turned it back in at the end of the semester/year.
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Re: Getting some of my own money back
« Reply #4 on: August 07, 2013, 10:10:55 PM »
Yeah, have't you heard? You have to buy your own books and supplies, oh and you have to do your schoolwork at home in the evenings, and if you want to participate in extracurriculars, you have to pay for those too and do't forget lunch. All that funding? That's for the administration.
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Re: Getting some of my own money back
« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2013, 11:14:47 PM »
That would be nice.  Getting close to buying next years stuff....
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Re: Getting some of my own money back
« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2013, 01:10:53 AM »
Do homeschoolers qualify for federal surplus food programs?  If not, can the cost of lunches be deducted as an educational expense?

(Someone suposedly once beat IRS with their own rules by claiming that they would make bag lunches for their kids except the school system did not allow kids to bring lunch from home (something about health risks).  Deduction for the cost of school lunches was allowed.

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Re: Getting some of my own money back
« Reply #7 on: August 08, 2013, 01:19:31 PM »
Home schooling?  What are the bullies going to do for lunch money?

I hear now where even K-12 can be provided online here in Denver's surroundings.  Dunno how that works, since I don't have school-age children.
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