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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hello, everyone.  Thank you for all of your insights and opinions.  OP here ...

I can imagine there are several scenarios where households may be 2-parent, 1-income like ours.  I see there was some speculation that in all cases this would be a parent "staying-at-home" or just not working (a choice I also made while my kids were little as a low-income earner who found childcare unaffordable and a poorer substitute given our particulars).  That's one possibility.  But others include: care of a child with illness/special needs, dependent adult, out-of-work parent, sick parent, [b]parent who works outside the home without receiving an income (volunteer/intern)[/b], and likely others.  In our case, we our longtime, pre-pandemic homeschoolers ... so I've been working years without getting paid :)

As I mentioned previously, I've never made an income (in my previous non-profit / education roles) as much as many of these private high school tuitions.  So, I was mainly wondering how others made it work.  If it's realistic even with aid.  What the imputed wage of a non-working parent might be.  Thanks to all of you who provided some useful insider knowledge there.

Others suggested Catholic schools as a less-expensive alternative.  We are considering those as well, though we are not Catholic. From reading other threads, it seems that could limit admission / aid in some cases.

Best wishes to everyone searching out the right path for their kiddos next year!  If anyone has more helpful information / experiences to offer, we would love to benefit from your words of wisdom.

Thank you![/quote]

No. I have never seen a SAH parent be exempt for "volunteering" or having an internship.
Homeschooling is optional. You chose it for your child. Staying home to provide an optional alternative education for your child, who doesn't seem to have special needs that would warrant this, is not sufficient reason to forego an income.
I have colleagues who are full-time adjunct professors and earn $25K/year. I know of preschool teachers who earn $35K/year. Having a low-paying career is not a valid excuse to stop working to earn an income.[/quote]

This.  If you chose a low income field and chose to homeschool due to personal choice, they won't have much sympathy.  We all make choices and you could choose to get a job.[/quote]

You realize that kind of income are for professionals with masters degrees doing the jobs we as a society need done - teachers, social workers, fire fighters, nurses, police, etc.  By the time you take out child care, even making $40-60K doesn't pay.  For me, day care was $2200 for one child.  So, by the time I paid day care, taxes, union dues and all the extras, I'd end up owing.  Plus, health issues made it hard to work.  And, caring for a SN child, then later another family member with dementia.  I couldn't afford a nanny to take my child to services and an aid to handle an abusive family member.[/quote]

If you have real SN reasons to homeschool that's one thing.  If you're doing it because you want to, I don't think anyone would find that compelling.  The number of people who can't afford private school because they've spent time and money caring for family is vast.  They can't all get admitted with FA.

It's unclear to me why you don't have a job now.[/quote]

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