| We have chosen to teach our own kids at home for a wide variety of reasons: 1. We want to take full responsibility for the raising our children. 2. The removal of a child from the family environment for most of the day is not what we consider good for the family or the child. 3. The public school system is underfunded, understaffed and overburdened: A. Teachers are up to their eyebrows trying to control kids when they should be free to teach. B. Placing youngsters into an overburdened and virtually unmonitored crowd of same aged peers frequently leads to the child taking one of three positions: bully, victim, bystander...not what we want for our kids. C. Large classes tend to limit the amount of time students can spend actually studying the subjects that are required, leading to much too much homework after a long day at school. D. People learn at different speeds and by different methods, teachers rarely have time to identify these, let alone fit their teaching technique to such a wide variety of individuals. Many people homeschool on the basis of preserving their religious beliefs, and, like them, we do like having more control over the influences that will affect our children's spiritual developement. Although some prefer to limit the ideas available to their youngsters, others choose to provide a broad base of knowledge for their children to make their own decisions from. We have found that homeschoolers run the full gamut - from fundamentalist Christian all the way to athiests, and many flavors in between. It seems that we have much more in common than many would think. |
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