Why do you home school......?

Question

Why do you home school your kids?
Do you to it because of the bad experience you had in public/private school?
Do you do it because your child has a illness or a learning disorder?
Do you do it because your child was bullied?
Do you home school them because they got bad grades?
Did you do it because your child didn't have any friends?

In my opinion I think home schooling is awesome and so is school and I'm curious to see the reasons other parents home school their children/child and/or send on to school and keep the other home schooled.

All I want is your opinion on why you home schooled, not a fight on whose better.

Answer 1

I am homeschooled because my parents think that I would do much better at home working at my own pace instead of sitting in class getting distracted by other students who don't care to learn. I love it and I plan on finishing out my highschool years being homeschooled. I get almost all A's in my courses I take online and some B's but nothing less, In public school from 1st-9th I did horrible I got NO A's OR B's I only got C's(if i was lucky) D's, and F's!!! I got into a lot of trouble because of my peers and the pressure but now I have a new group of friends and thanks to other peoples help on Yahoo Q:A I have volenterred to help at the local senior citizen center:).

Answer 2

Do you to it because of the bad experience you had in public/private school? Nope
Do you do it because your child has a illness or a learning disorder? Partially
Do you do it because your child was bullied? Partially
Do you home school them because they got bad grades? Nope
Did you do it because your child didn't have any friends? Nope

My 2nd child has autism, and regardless of laws and requirements that they educate her equally it didn't happen. When my 1st started having trouble, the same thing happened. He has social issues, and because of aspergers, was learning social interactions incorrectly as the schools were not willing to step in and say it was inappropriate (for those with the social issue with homeschooling, oh please, there is nothing real world about being trapped with 30 peers and one stressed out adult). Now that he's home, we can be with him while he's with peers and help him walk through things. His self esteem is better because people aren't raggin him about his differences. We have younger kids that we homeschool because the older ones are already home, it's what they know and they love being with their family. Why replace what was given to us by an artificial societal construct of age mates in a single room for eight hours a day.

Answer 3

My parents home schooled me because they didn't think that I would get a good education in public school. That's only because the schools in our area were really bad, and there were a lot of kids slipping through the cracks. My mom also hated public school when she went, and always wished she could be home schooled. They also never forced it on me, once I was old enough to make my own decisions, they would have let me decide. I could have gone to public school if I really wanted to, but I never did. I kind of liked being home schooled.

Answer 4

1) all of the school shootings
2) teachers sleeping with there students
3) bullies
4) drugs
5) God is slowly being taken out of the school system
6) kids are cruel
7) fights in schools between students and students, teachers and teachers, and students and teachers
8) If a kid can't keep up with the class, instead of taking time to help, the teacher just moves on to the next thing, leaving the child behind.
9) School buses don't have seat belts and you have to be on a school bus to take part in any school field trip
10) Most kids prefer homeschool over going to regular school and dealing with the other crap that goes along with it (fashion, clicks, pressure, bullies, mean/bad teachers, etc..)
11) Free to be happy and have fun and not worry about other people.

Answer 5

My son is home schooled because he has a brain stem tumor and is seriously developmentally delayed.He attended public school from grades K-5.He accomplished all he could at p.s. He will never be like other kids.He was bullied because he was "different".He got decent grades for what he did.He had and still has a lot of friends.Public school did all they could and I greatly appreciate that but now I can do more with him such as one-on-one he so desperately needed but the funds just weren't available in the school system.

Answer 6

Someone I know home schools her kids and I asked her the same question. For her, it was the religious aspect of it based on 2 points: 1. that public schools leave out religious teachings, and 2. there are no Mormon private schools (at least not where she lives). But I imagine the Mormon part of it (point #2) was probably more important to her than the fact that religion is left out of public schools - if it wasn't more important, then she could have easily enrolled them in any Christian private school.

Answer 7

We started homeschooling over nine years ago, and our reasons were a combination of many of the aspects that you noted. When we first started homeschooling, the main reason that I chose to remove our children from the public school setting was mostly for academic reasons. I worked at the school that they attended, and I saw the lack of dedication in some of the teaching staff, the money spent on "extras" instead of core curricula, and horrid amounts of time wasted on getting a classroom's full attention (if possible) and transtitioning from one class to another. However, we continued to homeschool for other reasons such as... much more quality family time, studying the Bible, studying the Christian world view, the ability to study practical life skills, the ability to create our studies according to our children's interest and abilities, and the ability to pace their education according to their individual needs. I could list many more reasons, but these are some of the most important reasons that we have continued our homeschool adventure for over nine years.

Answer 8

I started homeschooling because of my experience as a teacher in public schools. I loved school growing up. It's part of the reason I became a teacher. I continue homeschooling for many reasons, though: our closeness as a family, the freedom my children have to be kids and go their own pace and more.

Answer 9

I was home schooled because of a combination of things. The main reason was that I had a health problem. But also, my parents were not to crazy about the public schools and all of the violence that goes on in them. It was a definite plus to be able to take Bible classes, but that was not the main reason.

Answer 10

Well, we went to sign our son up for kindergarten. His birthday was 2 days past the deadline, so they recommended for us to sign him up for Pre-K. Well, my husband made too much money for our kids to be in that program.

Then I asked around about the school. Some parents told me about the school, and how they allow children to do violent things to other kids, and they don't even get into trouble. My next door neighbor has a grandchild in that school who has been known to cause trouble. He has stabbed another child with a pencil. He has choked about 3 other kids. He has scratched and bitten. He has attacked teachers, yet he is STILL in that school.

I also read in several places that the schools in my area are failing requirements, at 33%.

All those problems made me want to handle my children's education myself.