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Reasons Parents Choose To Homeschool

1. Children were given tedious busywork while in school and after school as homework. Causing the unintended consequence of losing their desire to keep going to school.

2. Students were not given enough in-depth study on subjects to adequately grasp the concepts. Instead mass amount of topics were presented at lightning quick pace decreasing comprehension.

3. Children were only being taught subjects that were on standardized tests. Homeschooling would allow a more rounded curriculum for the child.

4. Children were not being taught at appropriate developmental levels. Instead everyone was taught the same information regardless of each childs intellectual ability. This is called the "cookie cutter approach".

5. Children who are homeschooled can spend longer than 30 minutes on a subject they are interested in. Schools are on a time clock.

6. Classrooms are noisy, distracting and overcrowded causing children to have difficulty concentrating.

7. Homeschooling allows families a more flexible lifestyle.

8. Homeschool children are free from gangs, drugs, guns, knives, peer pressure, bullies, bad teachers, and are in an overall safer environment.

9. Parents can decide what their child will learn instead of the government.

10. Children won't have to wait until they are out of school to explore their passons. Homeschool curriculum can be designed around their passions.

11. Children can have more time to pursue non-academic interests, such as music, art or athletic skills. These subjects are been cut or severely reduced in schools.

12. Homeschool parents can customize their childs learning making it more efficient. The child is no longer part of a schools "cookie cutter approach".

13. Children can gain more confidence and be willing to take more risks because they can feel free to ask questions without peers or teachers ridiculing them.

14. Children in special education will no longer be "warehoused" but instead encouraged to reach their full potential.

15. Learning is more effective in a one-on-one learning environment. Schools can't compete with it's results making homeschooling the biggest threat to public schools.

16. Children who are a little "different" in any way can avoid merciless teasing, taunting and bullying which is growing in epidemic proportions in public schools.

17. Children who are homeschooled will learn that "knowledge" is the reward for learning, not a grade.

18. Children won't be spending most of their classroom time getting ready to pass a test instead they can be learning a well rounded curriculum.

18. Children will not be forced into "cooperative learning groups" that have children with uncooperative attitudes in it.

 

 

Article on why 2 million children are homeschooled. click here

Article on why military families choose homeschool. click here

CELEBERTIES THAT HOMESCHOOL:

MICHAEL CARD-SINGER, SONGWRITER

ROBERT FROST-PULITZER PRIZE POET

PAUL OVERSTREET-MUSICIAN, SONGWRITER

WILL AND JADA SMITH

JOHN TRAVOLTA AND KELLY PRESTON

CLICK HERE TO SEE WHO ELSE HOMESCHOOLS CLICK

 

 

An "A" in Life: Famous Home Schoolers
by Mac and Nancy Plent, 732-938-2473
The book can be ordered from: Unschoolers Network, 2 Smith Street,
Farmingdale, NJ 07727, for $9 plus $1 postage & handling.

"The one outstanding and impressive fact that did leap from the pages was that
there was a strong and loving figure, usually a mother, father, or other family
member, who spent time with that person during their childhood. With some
notable [self-taught] exceptions….it was a person, not a school, that made a
difference in the lives of these famous and successful people."
- Mac and Nancy Plent

EXERP FROM THE PLENTS BOOK BELOW:

General Douglas MacArthur, WWII and Korean War taught by his mother until 13, then tutored; entered West Point with highest entrance exams ever reported

Margaret Mead, Anthropologist " Some years we went to school. Other years we stayed at home and Grandma taught us." " On some days she gave me a set of plants to analyze; on others, she gave me a description and sent me out to the woods and meadows to collect examples, say, of the 'mint family.' , , , She taught me to read for the sense of what I read and to enjoy learning."

Laura Ingalls Wilder, author, Little House on the Prairie

Andrew Carnegie, steel manufacturer
Refused to go to school at age five so his parents kept him home.

Susan B. Anthony, women’s rights leader
home schooled by her father

Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of telephone no interest in formal studies; taught by his talented mother

 

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