In our current political environment, a lot of teachers are not allowed to “teach” what children need. Instead , teachers teach to a test and are ignoring other impotant areas of a student’s education, because pay is tied to students performance on high stake tests. Public schools have chosen to get away from the mission of directing their studentsto be productive members of society. Instead, they have a mission to get them graduated, with high, high stake testing scores, and entered in to a college. This seems like a great goal , except schools are not preparing students to make it in college. They are getting them into college and they are then dropping out because they are not prepared for the rigor of post-secondary work. Many parents are considering taking education into thier own hands and are considering home schooling.
So what are the benefits of home schooling? Care-givers can make sure that their children are learning what they need to be productive members of society. Not all students need to go to college. Guardians can assist their children in choosing a path for their goal and can direct them to acheive it. Schools no longer have the resources to help individual students plan his or future. Another benefit is that much of a teachers class time is spent handling discipline in the classroom. In a home school environment , it is possible to go over the same amount of content in half of the time. Students may only have to spend 3 or 4 hours in school instead of the 6 hours in a regular school.
Also, many states are starting to allow students that live in the local school district to participate in after school activities like sports, intermurals, etc., even if they attend a home school. This allows students to have social interaction of a public school while attending a home school that can provide the rigor and focus that students need.
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