Homeschooling Gives You an Added Edge

Homeschooling continues to be a hot button in today’s society.  No further proof is needed than the current outrage over a judge in North Carolina demanding a mother to enroll her three children into public schools.  Even though the children were testing at two grades ahead of the approved curriculum for the state of North Carolina.

The reason given by the judge was essentially a judgment based on the religious beliefs of the mother of three.  In modern society, this is the leading reason why parents choose to homeschool their children in the first place. 

Religion has been completely wiped out of public schools and some feel it needs a bigger role in the life of young people as they face the rocky road in front of them.  Religion is still the number one reason why parents choose homeschooling, but the list of reasons continues to grow as public schools continue to fail. 

Colleges offer thousands of different means to an end, yet public schools offer only one.  Students are looked at as one single person.  A prototype you could say.  What works for one child, should work for all. 

Homeschooling removes these time constraints and offers a path that’s more conducive to the individual.  A child is allowed to learn at his or her own pace, and can spend an extra day on something if needed.  This is especially helpful to slower children who would just be labeled in a public school and shoved into a class with others and forgotten about.

Not only does this benefit the slower children, but it also benefits the ones who excel.  The ability to accelerate the curriculum encourages the child to work to their potential instead of just becoming bored and moving on to something that is more interesting at the moment.  When that happens, you introduce a situation that could very well lead to disciplinary problems.

Public schools are thought of as a daycare where you can just ship your children away everyday.  At the same time, we spend less and less time with our children, and have no idea what’s going on in their daily lives.  If it wasn’t for dinner, we might not see them at all.  Each moment you spend with your child could be that moment that makes them a college student, instead of a prisoner trying to get their G.E.D.

Children retain very little of their education as they enter adulthood.  If it’s not something they use everyday like basic math, reading, and writing, it falls to the wayside.  As a parent, you have a chance to choose what your child learns, and that seems to be the most important gift you could give a child.  An assessment of life can’t come from a book, but from someone who lives it everyday.