Some may be surprised to know that homeschooling is actually cheaper than public schools. Parents of homeschooled children tend to purchase only necessary supplies, unlike public schools whose budgets are often spent on unnecessary items (Cost of Homeschooling vs. Public School”). Other expenses that public school parents must cover are the cost of school supplies, new clothes, technology (e.g., calculator), tuition, lunch money, field trips, and extracurricular activities. All of these items can be very expensive and add up to more than what homeschooling parents pay (“Cost of Homeschooling Compared to Public School”). The cost the government pays for a single child in the public school system is more than $10,000 a year, while homeschooling parents spend less than $1,000 a year on all their children (“Cost of Homeschooling vs.