Top Reasons To Home School Your Children
1. Studies show that home-schooled children average between the 80th and 90th percentile, regardless of the socio-economic background, or educational level of the parents.
2. Great student teacher ratio.
3. Very good communication between the student, teacher and parents.
4. The student can’t lie about their homework.
5. With a class size of one, they can’t copy anybody else's work.
6. The curriculum is in perfect agreement with the values of the parents.
7. The children will not bring bad habits home from school.
8. The pace of learning will be geared to the ability of each child, not the lowest common denominator.
9. You don’t have to fix lunch in the morning.
10. Children will be better adjusted socially if they don’t learn social skills from the street gangs.
11. Without peer pressure, they learn to think for themselves, not just parrot what the “group wants to hear”.
12. Every educator agrees that parental involvement is the key to success in a child’s education. How could one be more involved?
13. Your child will never be “just a number” in the classroom.
Why Home School?
Successful Home Schooling Tips Video
Parents decide to Home School for many reasons. Some view it as a way to tailor education to a child's needs, whether it's accelerating reading for a gifted child or honing math skills for a struggling one. Some worry about the negative social influences in schools. In the past couple of years we are seeing more parents concerned with safety at school, whether it's physical violence or illegal drugs or psychological and emotional safety.
The number of children across the United States who are being held out of public schools in favor of being home-schooled is higher than most people would think.
According to the National Home Education Research Institute's Web site, approximately between 1.9 and 2.4 million children were educated at home in the United States during 2005 and 2006.
If you are thinking about Home Schooling your children, don't do anything until you have read both of these books!
The Home Schooling Guidebook
The number of children across the United States who are being held out of public schools in favor of being home-schooled is higher than most people would think.
According to the National Home Education Research Institute's Web site, approximately between 1.9 and 2.4 million children were educated at home in the United States during 2005 and 2006.
If you are thinking about Home Schooling your children, don't do anything until you have read both of these books!
The Home Schooling Guidebook
& Successful Home Schooling
Here is something you might find interesting. These are the states that home-schooling advocates say are the most and least supportive of instruction in the home:
Home-school friendly laws:
Arkansas Michigan Idaho Oklahoma Texas
Laws that discourage home schooling:
Massachusetts New York North Dakota Pennsylvania Vermont
Here is something you might find interesting. These are the states that home-schooling advocates say are the most and least supportive of instruction in the home:
Home-school friendly laws:
Arkansas Michigan Idaho Oklahoma Texas
Laws that discourage home schooling:
Massachusetts New York North Dakota Pennsylvania Vermont
CLICK ON A STATE AND BE LINKED DIRECTLY TO LAWS THAT APPLY TO HOME SCHOOLING FOR THAT INDIVIDUAL STATE.
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