{"id":1783,"date":"2013-05-10T14:24:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T14:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indiandemands.com\/demands\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2013-05-10T14:24:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T14:24:22","slug":"can-i-home-school-my-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/indiandemands.com\/demands\/can-i-home-school-my-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I Home School My Children?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;In our current&nbsp;  political environment, &nbsp;a lot of&nbsp;  &nbsp;teachers&nbsp;  are &nbsp;not allowed&nbsp;  to &#8220;teach&#8221; what &nbsp;children&nbsp;  need. Instead , teachers  &nbsp;teach&nbsp;  to &nbsp;a&nbsp;  test and are ignoring  other impotant  areas of a student&#8217;s  education, because&nbsp;&nbsp;pay is tied to students performance on high stake  tests. &nbsp;Public schools have &nbsp;chosen to get&nbsp;  away from the mission of directing  their studentsto be productive  members of society. &nbsp;Instead, they have a mission  to get them graduated, with high, &nbsp;high stake&nbsp;  testing scores, and &nbsp;entered in&nbsp;  to a college. &nbsp;This &nbsp;seems&nbsp;  like a &nbsp;great&nbsp;  &nbsp;goal&nbsp; , except schools are not preparing students to &nbsp;make it&nbsp;  in college. &nbsp;They are getting them  into college and &nbsp;they&nbsp;  are then dropping out because they are not &nbsp;prepared&nbsp;  for the rigor of post-secondary work. &nbsp;Many  parents are &nbsp;considering&nbsp;  taking education into thier own hands and are &nbsp;considering&nbsp;  home schooling.<\/p>\n<p>So what are the  benefits of home schooling? &nbsp;&nbsp;Care-givers&nbsp;  can make sure that their  children are learning  what they need  to be productive members of society. &nbsp;Not &nbsp;all students need&nbsp;&nbsp;  to go to college. &nbsp;&nbsp;Guardians  can assist their children in choosing&nbsp;  a path  for their &nbsp;goal&nbsp;  and can direct  them to acheive it. &nbsp;Schools no longer have the resources  to help individual students &nbsp;plan his or future. &nbsp;Another benefit is that much  of a teachers class time&nbsp;  is spent &nbsp;handling&nbsp;  discipline in the classroom. &nbsp;In a home school environment , it is possible to &nbsp;go over&nbsp;  the same amount of &nbsp;content&nbsp;  in half of the time. &nbsp;Students may only have to spend 3 or 4 hours in school &nbsp;instead of the&nbsp;  6 hours in a regular school.<\/p>\n<p>Also, many  states are starting  to allow students that live in &nbsp;the local&nbsp;  school district to participate in &nbsp;after school&nbsp;  activities like sports, intermurals, etc., even if  they attend a home school. &nbsp;This allows&nbsp;students to &nbsp;have&nbsp;  social interaction of a public school while &nbsp;attending  a home school that can provide the rigor and focus  that students  need.<\/p>\n<p>There are &nbsp;a lot of&nbsp;  online resources for home schooling ideas  and curriculum. &nbsp;To get online help  with math, you can go to &nbsp;<a title=\"Online Geometry\" href=\"http:\/\/www.teacher4-u.com\/online-Geometry-Tutoring.html\" target=\"_blank\">online geometry<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;,&nbsp;<a title=\"Teacher4U Lesson Objectives\" href=\"http:\/\/www.teacher4-u.com\/Online-Math-Algebra-Geometry-tutoring-Objectives.html\" target=\"_blank\">virtual math lab<\/a>&nbsp; or ,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a title=\"About Teacher4U\" href=\"http:\/\/www.teacher4-u.com\/About-Online-Math-Algebra-Geometry-tutor.html\" target=\"_blank\">virtual algebra<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;In our current&nbsp; political environment, &nbsp;a lot of&nbsp; &nbsp;teachers&nbsp; are &nbsp;not allowed&nbsp; to &#8220;teach&#8221; what &nbsp;children&nbsp; need. Instead , teachers &nbsp;teach&nbsp; to &nbsp;a&nbsp; test and are ignoring other impotant areas of a student&#8217;s education, because&nbsp;&nbsp;pay is tied to students performance on high stake tests. &nbsp;Public schools have &nbsp;chosen to get&nbsp; away from the mission of<a href=\"http:\/\/indiandemands.com\/demands\/can-i-home-school-my-children\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;[ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[2964,2963,2962],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-online-geometry","tag-virtual-algebra","tag-virtual-math-lab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/indiandemands.com\/demands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/indiandemands.com\/demands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/indiandemands.com\/demands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/indiandemands.com\/demands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/indiandemands.com\/demands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/indiandemands.com\/demands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/indiandemands.com\/demands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/indiandemands.com\/demands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/indiandemands.com\/demands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}