Home Schooling Overview : Benefits of Home Schooling

For many families, home schooling children is a viable alternative to public education for several important reasons: Strengthening the family, providing adequate education, and to promote moral and religious values.

With a perceived declining in the educational quality of the public school system in America, many parents are coming to the belief that homeschooling can offer their children a better education and result in better opportunities later on in life.

A survey released in December of 2008 done by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics reported that in the Spring of 2007, over 1.5 million children were being home schooled.  And that was up over 400,000 kids from just four years earlier.  And almost double the figure from 1999. What's going on?

Some people are homeschooling entirely in the evening after both get home from work.  Homeschooling doesn't require the time that public school does.  There's no commute.  There are no set class times.  There's no waiting for other students.  There's instant one-on-one attention and almost-instant paper grading.  It's a streamlined method of teaching in many ways.  Young students require generally not much more than an hour a day gradually increasing to five to six hours per day in high school.  And speaking of high school, by the time students get this far they are generally just monitored anyway and work on their own.  An excellent way to keep your job and monitor their work each morning or evening.

Others find jobs with either flexible hours or hours that fit the homeschooling method they want to teach by.   There are single people who make the time to homeschool in their off hours and on weekends.  It might also be that one parent works on a different shift schedule than the other.  This way they can take turns teaching when they're off and share the load.  This also allows parents to take a part of the curriculum they feel strongest in teaching.

People who can work from home have the best situation of all.  Whether their work requires them to be at the computer or on the phone, they can set the children up right in their home office for lessons between calls or send them to a quieter room to complete an assignment or read.  They can spread the lessons out during the day and tend to the students as they can.

Also, many parents believe that a child's educational curriculum should include not only academic learning, but also the teaching of morals, ethics, and values. According to recent polls, about 77 percent of Americans identify themselves as Christians. Christian values are an important part of our functioning society and providing children with home schooling is a great way to ensure that they are social and moral values in addition to academic learning

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