Veronica, we are in NYC and there is a huge population of home-schooling families here. Usually homes-choolers orginise themselves as a group. These groups organize classes, clubs, field trips and other activities. Sometimes they form co-ops where parents take turns teaching or hire teachers. It is all depends on the area you are living in. You may google for home-school group in your area and ask for advice. I found home-school parents to be extremely helpful and supporting. Kids are generally nicer to each other, better educated and have lots of hobbies and interests. We have worked with the school and IEP team as well. There were ups and downs, some progress and relapses. The process was taking a great toll on us and started to affect Philippe's personality. He was turning into mean, moody, very deffiant, bored person. At some point I realized what our plan for raising him does not align with the school's. You know, it is like in a business; to be sussesful you need a long term business plan and a short term one. And THEY SHOULD ALIGN! Schools do not have long terms plans, in fact they hardly have any plans at all! For our children the most important thing is to address their strenghts. Their creativity, talents, imagination, sensativity. Schools only dwelve on deficits. It kills a spirit and makes a kid hate learning. My son, age 8, was begging me for 2 years to find him a robotic group. He is big on building, lego, science and sculping. None of these were explored at school, of course, and there were no time or resourses left for him to fallow his interests after. We were too busy taking him to his therapies (social group, speech (he stutters)), doing home work, etc. This is our first homes-chooling year. We are kind of traditional. Unlike un-schoolers, I do fallow some curriculum. I use www.K-12.com Language Arts and Science. I use Math workbooks. It takes us about 1.5-3 hours morning time to do our lessons. He had to sign a contract with me, he will do it or he should go back to school. I found him a robotic team (6 boys, he is the youngest). He also takes a swimming class, 3-D animation, Archeology and Adventure Games (Capture The Flag with a bits of role-playing. Think Percy Jackson). All classes are much cheaper for home-schoolers. They are offered at educational discounts, the same price as they would be offered to the schools. There are lots and lots more, but we don't want to over-schedule him. We don't realize how much time is waisted at schools and how little is actually learned. It is much easier to deal with a happy kid, even if he is still has difficult temperament. My son is the most difficult person I ever met in my life, but he is also the most exiting. He is a difficult boy and he will be a difficult man. In order to be tolerated in future life he must develop his talents, keep his health and good looks, learn to control his temper and deal with people in a nice way. That is our "long term" business plan and there is no way his IEP team can support it. Good luck with your son! best Dasha