Home Education

At the end of the day home education is about family relationships. Home school families are vocal about the benefits of educating at home and the strong relationships that homeschooling encourages between parents and children is right at the top of a long list.

Picture dad, mom and the kids sitting around the backyard fire pit roasting hotdogs in the evening. A cooking fire reflecting dancing flames and shadows in the falling darkness warms not only the food but hearts as well. This is the type of closeness most homeschooling families enjoy as they work through the rigors of scheduling, daily classroom assignments and other issues inherent in the homeschool lifestyle.

Children learn best in tutorial relationships and there are no better tutors than parents who care profoundly about the outcome of the educational experience. Homeschool organizations have demonstrated that home educated students regularly outperform their public and private school counterparts in academic testing. Though a sound and well-rounded educational program is important the really important accomplishments of home education are in teaching kids to think independently and the transmission of moral values. Both of these attributes are sadly lacking in the average public and private school experience. Home educated students who later enter the public and private school classroom usually rise to leadership positions due to their strength of character, relative immunity to peer pressure and ability to critically assess situations.

A perceived lack of socialization is the most frequently cited criticism of home education. The assumption is that the last couple of hundred years of American educational experience is the standard by which everyone must be judged. Nothing could be further than the truth. The world produced geniuses in every academic area prior to the segregation of students by age groups in the now traditional classroom. Homeschooled students often spend time in social gatherings with kids their own age as well as with adults of all ages. These students are comfortable relating to people of all ages instead of being peer dependent and socially maladjusted in situations out of their particular group. Toss a fire ring and a few hot dogs into the mix at a homeschool picnic and the discussion is a lively one. Ask most publically educated kids what a fire ring is and they probably don’t know.

At the end of the day home education is about family relationships. Home school families are vocal about the benefits of educating at home and the strong relationships that homeschooling encourages between parents and children is right at the top of a long list.
Picture dad, mom and the kids sitting around the backyard fire pit roasting hotdogs in the evening. A cooking fire reflecting dancing flames and shadows in the falling darkness warms not only the food but hearts as well. This is the type of closeness most homeschooling families enjoy as they work through the rigors of scheduling, daily classroom assignments and other issues inherent in the homeschool lifestyle.
Children learn best in tutorial relationships and there are no better tutors than parents who care profoundly about the outcome of the educational experience. Homeschool organizations have demonstrated that home educated students regularly outperform their public and private school counterparts in academic testing. Though a sound and well-rounded educational program is important the really important accomplishments of home education are in teaching kids to think independently and the transmission of moral values. Both of these attributes are sadly lacking in the average public and private school experience. Home educated students who later enter the public and private school classroom usually rise to leadership positions due to their strength of character, relative immunity to peer pressure and ability to critically assess situations.
A perceived lack of socialization is the most frequently cited criticism of home education. The assumption is that the last couple of hundred years of American educational experience is the standard by which everyone must be judged. Nothing could be further than the truth. The world produced geniuses in every academic area prior to the segregation of students by age groups in the now traditional classroom. Homeschooled students often spend time in social gatherings with kids their own age as well as with adults of all ages. These students are comfortable relating to people of all ages instead of being peer dependent and socially maladjusted in situations out of their particular group. Toss a fire ring and a few hot dogs into the mix at a homeschool picnic and the discussion is a lively one. Ask most publically educated kids what a fire ring is and they probably don’t know.