Meeting Update July 12th.

It was a really great meeting.  We had two new families.  If we keep this up we might outgrow meeting at a home and may have to switch to a meeting place.

We reviewed the cost breakdown.  I also ran numbers based on hiring a teacher just 3 days  a week.  We also talked about what is the maximum everyone can afford.  I didn’t get everyone’s numbers, but will be reaching out this week to find out.  It looks like $3,000 or less is the number we are looking at.  For us to hit that price and hire a teacher 5 days we will need 7-8 students, so would need a few more families.  It does seem that we should easily be able to hire a teacher 3 days a week. 

With that said, we are reviewing resumes and will decide if we should re-post an ad now that we have a more clear image of what we need from a teacher.  We agreed we all should interview the teacher. 

One thing the new parents suggested was that we have more information on the blog. What is going to be expected of the parents, how much will they be required to teach.  We will work on getting that written and on the blog. 

We talked about doing a neighborhood market as a fundraiser.  We have reached out to Woodland Heights Baptist and they might be interested in letting us use their parking lot.  Everyone thought it could be a good idea. 

We are going to start working on a outreach campaign to grow our numbers.  We will be putting information out on homeschooling groups, flyers in target rich areas and doing some press releases. 

Next meeting is Thursday July 19^th at 2:00.  Please let me know if you are coming.  I might need to see if we can find a meeting place.