Christian Homeschool Curriculum Offered Nationwide & Worldwide

Sunland Christian School, San Fernando Valley:
SCS is a homeschool/independent study program based in Los Angeles, consisting of caring families, serving families throughout the United States and in foreign countries. Homeschool students returning to public high schools can have problems transferring credits. For this reason, SCS is an accredited homeschool program. Terry Neven began Sunland Christian School in 1986 with 24 students, and has currently served over 3000 families, including families of traditional Christian homeschool backgrounds, families of athletes, actors, lawyers, teachers, single parents and politicians.

- Allows students to study at their own pace within the limits of compulsory school attendance requirements;
- Creates a helpful bridge between the school and the community;
- Challenges each individual student to excel in areas of special interest;
- Provides alternatives for students to achieve competency and mastery in basic skills and abilities;
- Encourages student resourcefulness. Through independent study students become more active and more responsible participants in the learning process.
- Most important of all, independent study offers multiple educational choices to students and families.

While students are usually in traditional school approximately six hours per day, research tells us they only receive 52 minutes of actual instruction per day. When a high school student is home schooled, a minimum of three hours of study per day is required by law, but in most cases (to properly study their academics) students may need four to five hours.

Many first-time home schooled students feel they learned more in the first month of home schooling than they did all year long during the previous school year. The time of day used for study may depend on each student. Parents should have final say, but need to take into consideration their student as they set a schedule.

Some students are early morning people while others need to start mid-morning. If a student, without much supervision, can complete the work given to them each day by a required time, with passing grades in the work, parents may not need to set an hour-by-hour schedule. But for most students, daily supervision helps them keep on track.

The National Independent Accreditation Council (NISAC) accredits SCS. NISAC credits can be accepted by any regionally accredited public school (WASC, etc.).

Homeschool and Online Homeschool Programs for Kindergarten - 12th Grade Students:

Subjects include:
- English, Math, Science, World History, US History, Economics, Foreign Language, Performing Arts, Fine Art, Physical Education, Health and Career Education.

The question of socialization is by far the most popular, and the most misunderstood, question asked about home schooling. If socialization means "learning how to get along with others," a group setting with one's peers is not always the best environment. In an overcrowded and under-supervised group, children can learn to be cruel, bully, push and shove, and be exposed to dysfunctional socialization. These issues often hinder proper social development.

Proper parenting can be the best facilitation for children's social development. Children even do better when parents are actively involved in a public or private school setting. Many families home school to provide their children with a solid opportunity to develop family values, good manners and positive social skills to help deal with the harsh realities of the world around them.

While home schooling could be an environment of over-protecting and coddling, many children today in traditional school settings are ill-equipped when left to fend for themselves.

Sunland Christian School (SCS) offers many opportunities for socialization, such as field trips, Friday School, junior/senior high activities, oral reports, science fairs and much more.