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(Practical) Reasons to Homeschool During the High School Years
12:50 AM, Friday, August 18, 2006
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Well, after posting my comments to Gena's questions, this fits right in - even though it was written 15 years ago! I received this in a packet early on in our homeschooling adventure!(Practical) Reasons to Homeschool During the High School Years HSLDA 1991 1) You get to see the completion of your earlier homeschool efforts. 2) You can customize your child's education to provide motivation and development for their gifts and abilities. No one else will be able to provide the consistent loving support in weak areas that you can. 3) You can start the higher education earlier. 4) You can continue the family building process. They continue to be in their young, impressionable and formative years. This is an invaluable time to cement all of your family relationships. 5) You can be sure they are learning if they are at home. Studies have revealedthat public high school students average only two hours and thirteen minutes of academic work a day. 6) You can continue to have inluence over their peer relationships. "Teen rebellion" is not God's plan for the family. 7) You can protect them from pressure to conform to what other kids are doing. You won't need to spend time de-programming. 8)Homeschool is the best preparation for higher education. 9) There is greater flexibility for work/study opportunities. 10) Home Educators have the best available curriculum and greater selection. If you send your child to High School: 11) Public schools offer revisionist history and science that promotes a humanist perspective. The godly commitment of manygreat Americans has been deleted from public textbooks. 12) The institutional method of public education is designed around "crowd-control", not learning. If and when they learn, it will be a by-product of other priorities to maintain order. 13) There will be a diversion away from your academic focus as well as spiritual priorities. Be aware of the many distractions that won't parallel your home life. 14) Your young people will thrown into things like preoccupation with boy/girl relationships, focus on clothes, and pressure to conform in appearance and music. 15) Vast amounts of time separated from the family will affect their relationship with you. We have all put great amounts of our heart and time into our homeschool years, and we want those efforts preserved. 16) Age/Grade isolation inhibits normal socialization. Public school children are behind their homeschool counterparts in maturity, socialization, and vocabulary development, as demonstrated by available research. Leave a Comment { Last Page } { Page 501 of 595 } { Next Page } |
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