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Question: What is a good secular homeschool program that's not overally expensive?

I'd like to purchase a complete kit somewhere with all the materials I need for an 11'th grade year. I've been having a lot of trouble finding something reasonably priced and non religious. If you know of any good complete curriculums please send me the link. Thanks!

Answer: "Overly expensive" is very relative. Do you mean more than $500? $1000? $3000???

K12 is a great option and is secular. The courses are $375/course/semester (0.5 credit) for part-time enrollment ($395 for AP). Full time enrollment, for six courses, is $6995, but it's 15% off through July 15th, which would be $5950.

http://www.k12.com/highschool/

We've used K12 for over five years with their Kdg-8th grade courses. It's a great curriculum.

You're going to find that the majority of online high schools start around $350/course/semester.

If your state has a virtual public school option, then you could attend online school for free. Otherwise, here's a list of secular high schools online:

Apex:

http://www.apexlearning.com/

Florida Virtual School:

http://www.flvs.net/

UNL Independent Study High School:

http://nebraskahs.unl.edu/index.shtml

Center for Distance and Independent Study:

http://cdis.missouri.edu/

Keystone High School:

http://www.keystonehighschool.com/

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