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

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

In some cases, parents wish to remove their children from the public schools because they see the public school system as failing, or as being harmful for their children. Other parents decide to teach their children at home on religious grounds, or because they wish to instill specific values into their children which they believe are missing from the public school system. Whatever the reason for schooling children at home, there can be little doubt that most parents opt for homeschooling because they see it as the best educational choice for their children.

For most parent there are two sides to to the homeschooling equation consisting of those positive things that it brings to the child and those things that it removes from the child's environment. Both peer pressure and bullying are rife throughout our public schools nowadays and frequently places children under considerable pressure and, on occasions, can even place them in danger. Teaching your children at home allows you much greater control over precisely who your children do and do not come into contact with and the influences they come under.

As far as a child's growth and academic development are concerned there can be little doubt that, in most cases, homeschooling produces superior results and this is seen in such things as homeschooled children winning the National Spelling Bees and the number of homeschooled children attaining degrees (in many cases Master's degrees) at many of our finest universities and often at very 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 homeschooling. But, if this were 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 point of view.

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

Despite the fact that most people believe that homeschooling is a relatively modern phenomenon it has in fact been with us for 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 underlying homeschooling now comes from the work of advocates of the system during the 1960s.

Homeschooling is without doubt not an easy option and is extremely hard work for most parents, particularly in the early days, but there can be little doubt that it works and the rewards for both children and parents make it well worth the effort.

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