Why Would Any Parent Wish To Homeschool His Or Her Children Today?


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Ask any parent involved in homeschooling why they opted to homeschool their children and you will see that there are roughly as many answers to this particular question as there are parents undertaking homeschooling.

Some parents decide to remove their children from the public schools because they see the public school system as failing, or as being positively harmful for their children. In other cases, parents wish to school their children at home for religious reasons, or because they wish to instill specific values into their children which they see as missing from the public schools. Whatever the reason for schooling children at home, there can be little doubt that most parents choose homeschooling because they believe that it is the best choice for their children.

For the majority of parent there are two sides to homeschooling consisting of those positive things which it brings to the child and those things which it removes from the child's environment. Peer pressure and bullying are widespread in our public schools nowadays and can place children under considerable pressure and, on occasions, can even place them in danger. Teaching your children at home allows you far more control over just who your children come into contact with and how they are influenced.

In terms of a child's academic development and growth there can be little question but that, in most cases, homeschooling leads to superior results and this is seen in such things as homeschooled children winning the National Spelling Bees and the high number of homeschooled children gaining degrees (in many cases Master's degrees) at some of our finest universities and often at extremely young ages.

Not surprisingly a lot of people hold that these children are just gifted and that their success is a consequence of their natural genius rather than to homeschooling. But, if this were the case then we are blessed with an abundance of geniuses in our youth. The simple fact of the matter is that the numbers simply do not support this point of view.

The numbers, which are produced not just by fans of homeschooling but by bodies such as the United States Department of Education, demonstrate quite clearly that homeschooled children do much better than their publicly schooled peers with homeschooled children a grade ahead by the age of 12 and a staggering four grades ahead by the time they get to the equivalent of the 8th grade.

Although the majority of people think that homeschooling is a fairly modern phenomenon it has in fact been around for many hundreds of years and is a well tried and tested system which has more than stood the test of time. Of course homeschooling has changed considerably over the decades and much of the philosophy behind homeschooling today comes from the work of advocates of the system back in the 1960s.

Homeschooling is without doubt a difficult option and is extremely hard work for most parents, especially in the early days, but there can be no doubt that it works and the rewards for both parents and children make it well worth the effort.

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