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Why Would Any Parent Wish To Homeschool His Or Her Children In This Modern Day And Age?

By: Donald Saunders

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Ask anyone involved in homeschooling why they opted to homeschool their children and you will find that there are just about as many answers to this question as there are people undertaking homeschooling.

Often, parents decide to take their children out of the public schools because they see the public school system as failing, or as being positively harmful to their children. Other parents wish to teach their children at home on religious grounds, or because they wish to teach theur children specific values which they see as missing from the public schools. Whatever the reason for teaching children at home, there is little doubt that the majority of parents opt for homeschooling because they believe that it is the best choice for their children.

For the majority of parent there are two sides to to the homeschooling equation representing those positive things which it brings to the child and those negative things which it removes from the child's environment. Both peer pressure and bullying are rife throughout our public schools today and often places children under considerable pressure and, on occasions, even place them in danger. Homeschooling your children allows you far greater control over precisely who your children come into contact with and the influences they are subjected to.

As far as a child's academic development and growth are concerned there can be little doubt that, in most cases, homeschooling produces superior results and this is evidenced in things like homeschooled children winning the National Spelling Bees and the high number of homeschooled children attaining degrees (often Master's degrees) at some of our best universities and often at remarkably young ages.

Not surprisingly many people hold that these children are just gifted and that their success is the result of their natural genius rather than to any homeschooling. But, if this were to be the case then it is certainly true to say that we are blessed with an abundance of geniuses amongst our younger generation. The simple fact of the matter is that the numbers simply do not support this view.

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

Despite the fact that the majority of people believe that homeschooling is a relatively modern phenomenon it has in fact been with us for hundreds of years and is a tried and tested system which has certainly stood the test of time. Homeschooling has of course changed a great deal over the decades and much of the philosophy underlying homeschooling now comes from the work of supporters of the system back in the 1960s.

Homeschooling is undoubtedly not an easy choice and is extremely hard work for the majority of parents, particularly during the early stages, but there is little doubt that it works and the rewards for both children and parents make it more than worth the effort.

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