Why are you homeschooling?

Question

I am going to homeschool my children and was curious to know why others are.

Answer 1

The initial reason I started home schooling was my daughter went from a private elementary school to a "charter" school in the area and it turned out to be awful! I decided maybe I just needed to bring her home to give her a little more time to get her legs under her before putting her in a public school setting. I ended up loving having her home, and she loved being home! She learned so much and was done with school in a few hours instead of wasting all day being disciplined in a class when she did nothing wrong. We covered more material at home than the school will ever dream to cover plus through in Bible and Spanish lessons. She is involved in many community activities and in high school sports as well. She has a very full social life with a lot of good friends I feel like I can trust. Our relationship is good and I cherish that. I see some of my friends kids that can't stand to be around their family and its so sad.

Answer 2

I am homeschooled right now, and I am 16 years old. I actually enjoy it a lot better. My parents are homeschooling my 2 siblings and I, because they wanted us to have a christian basis backed into our education, and so that we didn't get caught up with some of the stuff going up in our old public school. I just started this semester, and it makes it easier for me, because I get bored with old subjects so I can work at my own pace.
Two of my friends were homeschooled when they were younger, and they said they miss it and wish they could go back. Hope this helps some.

Answer 3

I was homeschooled for the last two years of high school because we moved to an area where the school was huge and really bad. The children were quite low on the national average. The teachers didn't care about the students. And this school's graduating class was as big as my whole school--pre-kindergarten through Seniors. I had done quite well at my public school because it was smaller, so the teachers had more one-on-one time with you, if you needed it. I had thought about going to the public school here, but it didn't seem worth it. I was working while I was homeschooled. I made plenty of friends.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

My husband and I decided to homeschool because we think that 5 years old is really just too small to be away from me for 8 or 9 hours a day. At that age little ones really are not ready to make decisions on their own.

We had thought we would homeschool for the first few years, but I think that will change. My daughter is already doing kindergarten work and she is only three. She will be a few grades ahead of kids her age at the time we might have added her to public school, so now we are leaning towards HSing for her whole education.

Once our other daughter is old enough we will see what is going to work best for her.

I do have concerns about safety at school. This year alone I have heard of 3 schools on the news just in our state. None of them were high schools, this is happening in the lower grades. I am not parinoid but it does weigh in our decision.

Answer 6

I started homeschooling my 12 year old for 2 main reasons.

First, was the negative socialization happening in our local public school.

Second, was the fact that teachers are practically forced to teach to end-of-the-year standardized tests. There isn't time to focus on things that capture a child's attention or to linger too long if a student doesn't understand something.

By homeschooling, I can expose my son to a greater variety of people...not confined to a certain age, race, economic status, etc.

We can also spend more time on the subjects that excite him...our entire year of history this year has been focused on Ancient Roman History and he is now at college level in that subject. We can also spend more time on subjects he has trouble with. He doesn't have to memorize 10 spelling words and then move on the next week whether he has learned them or not. We keep doing the same words until he remembers them all. The same with Math...we stick with an area until I am confident he understands it completely, and then we move on.

Answer 7

I wish there were an easy answer to this question. You will find as many reasons as there are people answering.

For me, there was no "one big reason" but many small reasons.

I could see the growing trend of the government making the decisions of "what's best for my child"
I was beginning to see an overall arrogance in teachers who were being taught that they "are the professionals" and they "know better for the children than the parents do." It was a struggle for me, meaning I had to contend with the schools almost daily, just to maintain my authority as a parent.

My daughter was being taught, more and more every year, that the school was her supreme authority and she had a responsibility to report to the schools "any behavior at home that you think we should know about."
They would even have worksheets and coloring pages describing the steps she should take to be comfortable coming to the school with stories from home.

Now, do I understand that there are instances of abuse and neglect out there? Of course I do. Does that mean because of these instances I'm willing to give up all my rights as a parent?
Hardly.

Of course, this training of children to accept the school as supreme authority over their parents sets the stage nicely for ratification of the UN Child protection treaty which will allow government to take away parent's iimplcit rights if they simply do not agree with what a parent is teaching at home.

see how it all fits together?

I also had a problem with standardized testing.
What a limiting concept.
Only teach to the test. That has done nothing but dumb down an entire generation and take away our competitive edge. Former third world countries are now outperforming us in production and technology. Some "decision makers" want that playing field leveled, they want wealth redistributed. I, being one of two decision makers in this home, do not want that for my children.

You begin to think standardizing children is ok, you've lost the passion behind learning.

I also became wearing of the trend to sanitize most everything in order to take away any possible trace of offense to anyone. Well, anyone except the squeaky wheels.

that's not all, but that had a lot to do with my decision to homeschool my children.
I want them to grow up knowing that what they are teaching in the public schools and that level of learning is NOT the golden ring.

That ring is much much higher.

Answer 8

My parents are homeschooling me because schools are so underfunded, and doing so little, that they figured they could do a better job at home.

I was getting yelled at for reading too much, and the quality of instruction was so poor that they expected parents to be teaching their kids mathematical concepts at home; they had borrowing and carrying on homework when they'd never taught us how to do it, for example. Also, they stayed in theoretical math, counting M&Ms, until fourth grade. And this was in one of the better schools.

My favorite thing about being homeschooled is the ability to be independent and okay with myself. School kids seem to need to move in a pack and have other people around, always talk, always try and exclude other people. I don't get it.

Answer 9

First reason I decided to homeschool is when i put my girls into public school for preschool they were ahead of their age BUT by first grade they were falling behind and they wanted to retain 2 out of 3 of my kids. I had various problems with the teacher not handing out homework when they were sick and other things. So I started thinking about homeschooling. Then my oldest comes home telling how her friends mom has Sex with her boyfriend and I asked her if she knew what that was and she said no. I ended uphaving to tell my 6 yr old what sex was... I was very upset about it. Also there were alot of other things going on at the school. I myself went to that school and to the high school in our town and so did my parents and even though it is a small town there are the same problems with drugs and alcohol abuse. It gets worse every year. Also if you are not part of the "in crowd" It is not a bad town in itself but alot of people are very narrow minded and just plain ignorant.
Also it was the best thing we could have done for our family!! We have more time for us and it is on our schedule not the school system.We can work as little or as much as we need too. We can include a whole different perspective to their education with hands on learning. We are not turning out little robots to do exactly as we think but they have their own minds and opinions to work with. We also work at their pace and level instead of forcing what "Level' the government thinks they need to be at. to me education is an individual thing not a lump sum everyone learn the same thing and if you dont get it and the person next to you does then you are stupid. I am not angry at the public school system because they are just doing what they think is "right" but I have the choice to provide better for my kids and I am going to exercise my right to do so.

Answer 10

I originally decided to home school.Because I have been through the public school system were I live.And it sucks to put it nicely.But then when my son was born he was born with medical problem.And he has to have medication several times a day.And the local school system refused to allow him to have his meds on him.They wanted to lock them up in the office and have him come there to get his treatments.That would be o.k. if he needed the meds only at certain times.But he has attacks without warning.And waiting for someone to find who has the keys to get the meds out.Or for the teachers to get their acts together and get him help.Could cause him his life.And I am not willing to jeopardize my child for their outdated rules.And now after homeschooling him for 4 years.I have a new reason not to ever let him see the inside of a public school.In the past two years.The school down the road from us has had 2 8 year old's bring 9mm guns to school.Not to mention all of the school bus assaults and rapes.Or the ones going on currently in the school system were I live.