Home Schooling
CFA Yokosuka has an active home school community. Many families choose to home-school. and do so on their own but are base home school groups There is an active homeschooling community on base with weekly meetings, social media, and activities. Three home school co-op groups here are:
- Kanto Plain Home Schoolers
- Classical Conversations
- Yokosuka Christian Homeschoolers
Kanto Plain Home School group is a large, active base group of home school families. It is open to all philosophies. The group provides weekly meetings, opportunities for networking, sharing curriculum and best practices, info on home school resources and tools, as well as group classes and activities for students, parents, and families.
• Website
• Email contact
Classical Conversations is an active, faith-based group that follows a specifically established philosophy of education built on mentoring and parental engagement in their child’s daily education. The group offers weekly classes for students and their parents to attend together held at the base Chapel of Hope as well as special
• Website
• Email contact
Available to home-school families at each DoDEA school is access to auxiliary services as well as individual classes or blocks (See DoDEA instruction at www.dodea.edu/upload/02OD002.pdf). Auxiliary services include:
- Library and Internet services
- Special Education, English as Second Language, Gifted &Talented services
- Standardized testing
- School bus transportation
- Extracurricular activities
- Interscholastic activities
- After-hours use of facilities
- Lending textbooks, workbooks, software, etc
The Home School Legal Defense Association is a valuable site of info, resources, and tools for home-school families. In addition to providing legal info and support the site has a menu of helpful categories on areas such as Getting Started, Curriculum, Military, and more. Visit their website
Some helpful pages from the site:
• Military home school information
• Home school international
• New to Home Schooling/Getting Started
• Curriculum information
• Home school support groups
• Home school by state