For FLVS, you will pay the same through PEP as if you were enrolling in their global program as a paying student.
For public school classes, it varies from district to district.... You would have to call the school district.
Please note that there will be a cost for public school classes if you are a PEP student. Regular home education students don't get any additional funding or access to the tax dollars that go to the schools, so they can enroll without cost for classes at a public school. The school receives funding through the Department of Education for those students.
However, PEP students are already receiving funding from the PEP scholarship. This is why there is a cost for these classes for PEP students--if you didn't have to pay, it would be double-dipping. (In other words, your students would be getting an unfair advantage over other students.) (For more info on this "double-dipping" concept and why it's set up this way, see our FAQ post here.)
Update: Please also see this September 7, 2023 update about classes at public schools.
My district doesn't seem to have a clue. I am happy to pay, but they don't know how to charge me :(
How will pep affect Bright Futures? Especially if the student does pep for one year (either junior year and then public school senior year, or vice versa)? know there is some wording about bright futures only accepting homeschoolers or public school students only if they did the final two years in only one or the other. need clarification since my plan was for my daughter to do junior pep and senior year public school, but I don't want to screw up her bright future's options.
Ok, I think I might be confused on the definition of extracurriculars. I was thinking sports and after school clubs, but after reading more it seems that they are the non core classes. NJROTC would fall under that category, right? So at minimum they'd have to allow him to take that as a pep student, right? It's the math and science that they don't have to allow him to take. Is that correct?
Also, if I manage to get everything worked out, would pep pay the school directly for the classes or would I pay and have to file for reimbursement?
Thank you so much for your detailed response. I'm not interested so much in the extracurriculars, just in the classes. I was able to schedule my son to take 3 classes (math, science and NJROTC) with the school when I told them my plan was to homeschool him. But, now that he has been accepted to Pep, I am not clear on how the school needs to change that. I am afraid of officially withdrawing him as the pep requires without having my ducks in a row and screwing this up. So what should my next steps be? Who would calculate the fee for these three classes and since one is NJROTC, does that work differently? Who do I need to talk to?
Can a public school refuse to accept and/or charge a pep student? If they refuse to charge but you want your child to take classes there part time are you forced to renounce the scholarship even if you want to pay for the classes?