| There are almost as many answers to the | | | | superior results and this is evidenced in such things |
| question of why you should homeschool your | | | | as home schooled children winning the National |
| children as there are parents undertaking | | | | Spelling Bees and the number of home schooled |
| homeschooling. | | | | children attaining degrees (in many cases Master's |
| Some parents wish to remove their children from | | | | degrees) at some of our finest universities, often |
| a public school system which they see as failing, | | | | at remarkably young ages. |
| or as being positively harmful to their children. | | | | Of course many people will claim that such |
| Other parents wish to school their children at | | | | children are simply gifted and that their success is |
| home for religious reasons, or to instill certain | | | | due to their natural genius rather than to |
| values into their children. Whatever the reason, | | | | homeschooling. However, if this were the case |
| there can be little doubt that most parents | | | | then we are certainly blessed with an abundance |
| choose homeschooling because they believe that | | | | of geniuses in our younger generation. The simple |
| it is the best educational choice for their children. | | | | fact of the matter is that the numbers do not |
| For many there are two sides to homeschooling | | | | support this view. |
| comprising those things that it brings to the child | | | | The numbers, produced not simply by advocates |
| and those things that it removes from the child's | | | | of homeschooling but by bodies such as the US |
| environment. Peer pressure and bullying are rife | | | | Department of Education, clearly show that home |
| throughout the public school system today and | | | | schooled children do far better than their publicly |
| can place children under considerable pressure and, | | | | schooled peers with home schooled children a |
| at times, even place them in danger. | | | | grade ahead by the age of 12 and as much as |
| Homeschooling your children allows you far | | | | four grades ahead by the time they reach the |
| greater control over just who your children do | | | | equivalent of the 8th grade. |
| and do not come into contact with and how they | | | | Homeschooling is certainly not an easy option and |
| are influenced. | | | | is certainly hard work for most parents, especially |
| In terms of a child's growth and academic | | | | in the early days, but there is little doubt that it |
| development there can be little doubt that, in the | | | | works and the rewards for both children and |
| majority of cases, homeschooling produces | | | | parents are well worth the effort. |