In the middle of our youngest child's junior year of high school at home, she had been using an Algebra II program that was tried and true by her sister and countless other homeschooling families.  She plugged away for at least an hour and a half a day, watched the DVD lessons and graded her work to find she still struggled.

Finally we decided to change curriculums. After 7 months of school we started over with a new Algebra II.

This is cool reason to homeschool #6 - changing horses in mid stream.

Would you want your child to just 'get through' a class that took them hours of homework, class time and tutoring only to forget it upon graduation?  Is getting through it the goal or is mastering a subject the goal?

Homeschooling provides the chance to change what is not working with little disruption to the rest of the schedule.  No class times to rearrange - no districts to change - no moving to another school - no hurt teacher's feelings (okay, maybe we might not understand why our child is struggling but it is able to be rectified.)

When you can have the chance to put the brakes on and evaluate if the time spent is worth the outcome - homeschooling gives a family the ability to change direction to best suit the student to master the subject.  This is one of the top ten COOL reasons to homeschool.

Blessings to your family!

Donna Miller

http://www.homeschoolheart.net