Why do parents homeschool?

Question

I'm just curious. I'm a public school teacher and I have a few special circumstance where I might homeschool but I'm wondering why you do it.

Answer 1

The reasons we chose to homeschool are many.  I'm not sure I can even recall every one.  

The reason we continue to homeschool is because it is the right thing to do.

We as parents have been given a great responsibility -- God gave us the children to raise and to train.  It is our job to see to it that they are trained in everything from basic skills to academics and *spiritualness*.

Originally we were disillusioned by our own experiences in the public school system.  We knew that there had to be a better way.  The social-negatives outnumbered the positives within the public system.  The academic pitfalls were many.  Teachers constantly complained about the classrooms being too full and the money being too short.  s*x education was too explicit for a young mind and we believe that children need the chance to BE CHILDREN and not mini-adults.  

In the course of the past 20+ years we have discovered through experience that Home-Education is a very worthwhile pursuit.  It is not an *alternative education*.  It is the BEST education!

Our home-schooled friends have grown up to become scientists, professors, teachers, veterinarians, lawyers, landscapers, building contractors, missionaries, preachers, etc. etc. etc.  They do very well in college and in the workplace.

Home-Education gave us the opportunity to learn many things together and in conjunction with hundreds of other home-school students in the community.   The resources are abundant.  From libraries to the internet, from used curriculum exchanges to new curriculum sales and shows.  The support networks are everywhere from email groups to local organizations, and from National conferences to State conventions.  The internet overflows with websites and information for everyone from beginner to college graduate.

Our home-school journey of 20+ years has been an amazing journey that I would not trade for anything.  I can't say the same about my public-school experience.

Barb, SACHSNews! newsletter editor

Answer 2

It's the only place where they can find teachers who agree with them.

Answer 3

After 9 years of public schooling, I decided to homeschool due to a medical condition that was causing my grades to suffer. Also, I have had some HORRIBLE experiences with public school teachers. I have also had some wonderful experiences. My parents didn't really choose this, but I decided it was what I wanted so I enrolled in a school where my parents wouldn't have to teach me, but I would teach myself and go to school once a week to get work. I really like this, so much more than public school. It isn't for everyone, but I get a better education this way.

Answer 4

I'm homeschooling my daughter because:

1st       we moved to a new area and the school she was going to be going to was on the "needs to improve list".

2nd      My daughter is very smart, She is 7 and was in second grade. We have her working on third grade material now. And her grades are better now than they were doing second grade work.

3rd       My daughter has been diagnosed with ADHD, ODD, and Bipolar II.

Answer 5

A lot of parents home school for many different reasons. It provides more time for parents to spend more time with their children. The kids can get more one on one attention. They are less likely to engage in inappropriate activities that some kids do at school (I've personally walked into a school bathroom while two girls were smoking! No lie!). The kids can move at a faster pace without distractions. Schedules are a lot more flexible, if a family want to take a vacation they don't have to go through the hassle of planning with the school a pre-planned absent etc. Parents sometimes feel that it is better if they teach their children because they know what their kids are learning. Some people don't live in the best neighborhood so home schooling truely is the better option. I'm not saying all public schools are god awful, but some defintally are. Like somebody said, the chances of bullying, gossiping etc are a lot less. Yes, that can happen in neighborhoods, but it is a lot less likely to happen.Sometimes it is for health reasons it is just easier on the child to be home schooled.

Finally, it is a parents job to raise and teach their children right? And that means more then just teaching right and wrong behaviors. For home schooling parents they are brave and wonderful enough to take on the great task to teach their children as much as they can without relying on somebody else. My thinking is why should you waste your time sending your child off to learn at a school if you can do it yourself? Plus from what I've seen a lot (obviously not all) of home schooling parents are former educators themselves and have some sort of teaching degree so it's not as if some hobo off the street is teaching them. Besides, even if a parent does not have a million and one degrees they can still teach their child!

I know that probably is not a lot of reasons, but I haven't been home schooled since 4th grade :(, so unfortentually my memory of home schooling is limited. Just remember, it is not as if parents home school with the objective to insult public schools or the staff there (I just had to mention that because I recentally had a psychology teacher who made it out to seem as if that was why my parents home schooled me).

Answer 6

Here is an excerpt from NHEN (link below) from a survey asking the same question you ask here:

Families Choose to Homeschool for a Wide Variety of Reasons

Many people choose homeschooling for:

    ÃƒÂ‚· academic and learning reasons

    ÃƒÂ‚· values-based or religious reasons

    ÃƒÂ‚· social issues

    ÃƒÂ‚· health issues

    ÃƒÂ‚· safety concerns

    ÃƒÂ‚· flexibility of family schedules or lifestyles

The overriding reason, however, is that homeschooling offers freedom along with responsibility -- freedom to make their own decisions regarding how they wish their children to live and learn. Whatever initially leads parents to make this choice, homeschooling nearly always evolves into something far more than an alternative educational choice -- it becomes a lifestyle choice of personal responsibility and freedom and incredible joy within a close family life.

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My personal reasons / beliefs -

- Improved academic outcomes (test scores, scholarship winners, contest winners and college admissions support this position)

- Improved social outcomes (all serious research supports this position)

- Concerns over safety

- Ideological reasons (Liberty vs. liberal-socialism, disagreement with moral relativism, appalled by revisionist history, etc.)

- Religious freedom

- Flexibility

- Wider variety of social and academic opportunities (we have experienced private, public and homeschool)

The list could go on and on...

That being said, I would also like to add that I do not look down on teachers in general.  We have had some good ones and some bad ones over the years - you'll find this in every walk of life.  I do believe that teachers are also victims of a very broken, bureaucratic and oppressive system.  Go listen in on the Q&A in the Teachers section of YA and see some of the thoughts teachers have.  Many start out very idealistic and wanting to really make a difference for kids.  The system works against them as well as the kids.

Regarding perception of public schools:

1) I think many form their "perception" from personal experience.

2) Go to yahoo news and search "public school student teacher s*x trouble" - you will get over 300 hits for the last month with headlines about shootings, murders, drugs, mutilations, high drop out rates, illiteracy rates, bullying, molestations, disease outbreaks, etc.

3) Do a similar search "home school parent student s*x trouble" and you get 0 hits - you can change this around a little bit like changine parent to teacher and you will get 1 hit that is actually about public school

So, the perception is formed by personal experience and schools in the news

Answer 7

Yes, there is a horrible perception of public school.  My daughter and I lived through it.

That being said, home schooling is working out great for us. My kids test high in their classes and are both well rounded both socially and academically. We have more free time then we would if they where is school all day. I won't say every parent should do it, but is definitely a viable option!

Blessings

Leopold Stotch : The question was asked of people who home school, so why are you answering? You are judging home schoolers by a couple of examples which I am not sure if I even believe. Barring a few extreme examples, research does not back up your claim. I know examples of MANY public school students that are messed up, but I will not judge all public school students by them.

Answer 8

I am a homeschool child, and I left public school because the children in public school were harsh(because I was way ahead of my class and because I wasn't "like them") and because the educational system isn't very educational.  Now that I'm homeschooled, I am taught at my level by my mom(she has a master's degree), my grandpa(as well) and my grandmother(her too).  I am also going to take college classes when I'm 16 since I'm homeschooled.  I have had better experiences in homeschool than public school & I'm better off.

Answer 9

While the main excuse will be that they wish to give their kids a 'better education', the main reasons are these:

Fear of the unknown - ie: paranoia

Religion - eg: "omg you teach evilution? D:"

Dislike of public school/s

Obviously the first two are grossly unjustified personal reasons and in no relevant to desiring an education of the child/ren.  No 3 is solvable by either moving or just taking the kid/s further in the morning.  Not always possible I know but it can be worth it.

I'm pretty sure that public school environments are important for kids in developing their social skills.  I know several people who didn't go to public school, either because they were homeschooled due to their parents' paranoia or they had disability or behavioral difficulties (myself included) and their social skills are considerably less developed than the people I know that did go to public school.

Answer 10

Gossiping and bullying can happen anywhere. There is a difference, however, between having a child live essentially full-time in such an environment and having small doses here and there. It's like junk food: it's not good for us and having it all the time would be really bad, but having it here and there doesn't cause too much harm.

I homeschool because of my experience as a public school teacher. The courses I took in psychology and child development, not to mention sociology, just had me see the whole school setting very different one day. It was odd--it was like a switch had been flipped and I really saw the school setup through the lens of all that I had been taught. It wasn't a pretty picture. Neither psychologically nor socially does it make ANY sense for us to have children growing up with essentially 20-30 siblings the same age. I mean, could you imagine adopting 5 kids the same age? What about 20??? How much harder and unnatural is it to guide them and help them develop? Children are designed to learn more mature behaviours from those who are more mature, as well as to use those same learned behaviours guiding those who are younger than them, which is hard to do when they are surrounded by same-aged kids all the time. (I will say that the homeschoolers I know are quite social and do lots of things with others, which ensures this varied interaction.)

Just think of it: a group of 20 kids the same age and a group of 20 kids, ages 6 through 12. Have you ever seen it? I have. On several occasions.The 12yo's (or even older) take on the leadership role and naturally guide the younger kids; those in the middle look up to the 12yo's but also have a sense of guiding those younger. (This is a common occurrence in homeschooling social activities because families have such varied ages.) It's how things were for thousands and thousands of years before mass public schooling became the norm. Even the early schools weren't divided into age groups but abilities--and were all multi-aged.

In any case, social reasons were a primary concern. I didn't like what I saw--not only did it feel so unnatural and just "off" from how things should really be, or could be, I didn't like some of the attitudes I was seeing and how kids in gr. 4 were acting very much like how kids acted when I was in gr. 7: cliques and snobbery and more.

My husband is a jr. high teacher and at the time we first discussed homeschooling, the gr. 8 girls in his school were dressing so horribly, their hallway had been nicknamed the Red Light Hallway. Since then, although girls' apparel has somewhat improved, he has become even more convinced that jr. high is just an unnecessary and undesirable place if it can be avoided. They are SOOOO peer focused--how can you accept any necessary guidance when you are too focused on impressing others, and being liked or accepted? The kids are having s*x younger and younger, partying younger and younger... Even stupid things that I can't imagine happening when I was in school, like boys spraying Axe on their arms and lighting it on fire, or trying to get high off of Advil because they didn't have any pot or other stuff left. (I'm not joking. And before you think this is some poor, inner-city school, it isn't--it's actually one of the more respected jr. highs in the city.)

So the social reasons became a huge focus for us. We wanted to avoid having our kids growing up thinking that all those behaviours are normal and okay. They still get exposed to these things--they just don't have to live them on a day-to-day basis. We ended up adding to that academic reasons as our first child, my now 10yo dd, started reading and doing math at age 3 and by the time she was ready for K, it was so obvious that it was going to be an academic waste of time and a poor fit. We now just see so many additional benefits to being the ones who raise our children, to keeping the family together (my kids have a fantastic relationship with each other and with us) and more.

And when all is said and done, would I rather spend more time with somebody else's kids (well, 25 other somebody else's kids) 10 months out of the year or my own? Do I really want to be handing over my kids to other primary caregivers, a different one each year, and have them separated from each other when I am willing and able to keep them together and do the job myself? I didn't have my kids so somebody else would be the primary guide for the 12 years preceding adulthood. (Adult age is 18 here.) This is not to say that I've tied them to apron strings or that they are unduly sheltered. We just give them things in appropriate doses, expand the things they do and learn about as they age and are ready for it. We are under no false assumptions that if we simply keep them at home for 18 years, they will be well-prepared for functioning in society. We have them working on functioning in society, living real life NOW. The way people did before we sequestered children into schools for most of their waking hours.

Answer 11

My son was in the 8th grade at public school.  He was performing at his capacity and the school would not give him an Individual Education Plan.  He did not qualify for special education. The teachers all agreed that he did great in one on one tutoring and in small classes.  He was away from home from 7 AM until 3 PM.  We would start on the homework at 4 PM.  I would teach him what he should have learned in class.  We, of course, would include dinner, errands, housework, laundry, community sports, etc. in addition to the homework. It was exhausting and frustrating.  We decided that since he could learn with individual tutoring that we would quit wasting the school's time and his time and just teach in the way that was most efficient for him.  

It has been successful.  His reading comprehension was on the 11th grade level when he was in the 9th grade.  This was an improvement of 4 grade levels from the initial test that he took in the first year of homeschooling, 8th grade.

So, our reason was for individual attention, individual instruction,and individual pace.  

I work in the public school and our rural school system is relatively safe.  We have many good kids and teachers.  I would , however, recommend to most parents to teach their children at home.  It is a wonderful way to get to know your child and to cater an education to meet his interests, goals, and abilities.

Answer 12

Choosing to educate my children at home had a great deal to do with our public school system.

When you have a high teacher turn over rate, schools that try to bull doze children's rights, sexual things happening in elementary, peer pressure, drugs, pregnancy, intimidation of school staff from the administration, back scratching to get family members into positions they have no clue about,etc....  why not educate at home!?



Think about this... you have 20 something kids in a class... how many different ideas are you going to come up with to get one another in trouble.? A teacher can not supervise every conversation in that class.  Heck when I was in school most of the bullying was done right in the classroom!

Yes, there are many good schools, teachers... but come on think about it... would I rather have my child in a class with less than 10 children or more than!? They will get more out of their learning time with less than!!

Besides... now education is a joke... its mostly about SOL's, 99 percent of that stuff that the schools are grilling into our children... they won't even remember in a week or two!

Answer 13

The reasons vary from family to family but for us it is the following:

Both dh and I believe in natural, child led learning, following interests and learning styles, more time to spend as a family, my kids are above grade level and won't be bored, the "local" school is far away, flexibility and independence.

For some people public school works really well, they enjoy the competitiveness and large groups of people. That is not my family. Violence CAN happen anywhere but by raising kids who aren't playground bullies we can step by step try to get rid of it and make a peaceful world.

Answer 14

My oldest two were in PS for five years, the next two for two years

Reasons we homeschool

1) our disabled children weren't getting help

2) our gifted children weren't being challenged

3) I really like my family and would like to not have our schedule dictated by people who don't know us.

4) Contradictory values were being taught

That pretty much sums it up. I could probably make a list at least twenty entries long, but it can all be put into one of these four categories. Yes, i was involved, I was there every day of the week, I volunteered in all the classrooms, the office. There's just only so much that public officials can do with large groups of kids.

Answer 15

My mother homeschools me because I wasn't being challenged enough in public school. On top of that the schools wouldn't properly accomodate my blindness... No teaching of blindness skills like cane travel or braille or use of assistive technology. Instead they just excluded me from classes I would be perfectly capable of if I could have instructions enlarged, or permitted to type instead of write, or use a tape recorder when lecturing was going on so I could take notes on my own computer in a format I could read when I got home.

Now that I've been homeschooled I'm 2 grade levels ahead of my age mates in public school. No more slowing my pace to that of the slowest student (or the one who is least willing to learn. Whatever the case may be.) No more wasted time on busy work or "housekeeping" (no pun intended here. I do help out around the house. I mean all the time it takes to pass out materials, collect homework, take attendanc, get the overhead working, discipline the troublemakers, and repeat things over and over and over again)

I have nothing against public school teachers... Most of them. It isn't there fault the system fails so many students. In fact teachers truly are our greatest resource. If it wouldn't mean conforming to a system I've seen fail time and time again, I'd follow my childhood dream of becomming a treacher. I just think I'd get frustrated too much when the rules of the system prevent me from helping each and every student no matter what the circomstance.

Answer 16

We Just started homeschooling our 5 year old...  First we sent him to a private catholic school and hoped that they would instill our values. We were wrong.  Our son would come home crazy!  He was teasing his brother and taunting him it was awful. He was also behind in his fine motor skills and the other kids made fun of him.  I refused to put my child in a harmful situation as this was and instead chose to bring him home and raise and teach him in love.

Answer 17

We were led to the decision when DS was four and in a public preschool.  His teachers there told us *not* to put him in their district's kindergarten.  He was already a couple of years ahead of the kids.  Our state would not let a child skip Kdg, and the gifted program didn't start until 2nd grade (it was a "joke" of one hour of pullout math a week anyway).

We couldn't afford the private gifted school across town, so we started HS'ing right after he turned 5.  He was able to take each course at the level he was working at.  Now he's 9 and has courses from 4th-9th grade.  He tested as profoundly gifted by the school district when he was 7 and they still agreed with our decision to HS him.  They had nothing to offer us except him taking science at the middle school.  Uh, no thank you!!!!  They did offer a gifted IEP where we could basically write our own requirements we wanted of the district, but we never persued it, then we moved to a new state.

Our new district has a "challenge" program, but because DS can move at his own pace, and the curriculum we use is both deep and broad, he's already done the entire elementary and intermediate scope and sequence in that program.

So that was our first, and main, reason for deciding to HS.  I only comitted to 1-2 years at first, but now we're well into our 5th year and I know he'd never fit in at a B&M school - now or in the future.

Many HS'ing parents I know are current or former educators.  There is so much support online for HS'ing families that if you decide to continue researching it, you'll find a lot of help.  :-)  Best wishes to you!

Answer 18

I do want to say thanks for asking in a respectful manner...you'd be surprised at how little we get of that on this forum :-)

Parents homeschool for a lot of reasons - the number of reasons probably almost equals the number of homeschoolers.  For us, there were several.

First, the schools where we live just plain aren't able or willing (not sure which) to accomodate my son's needs.  I'm not saying that to be harsh or judgmental, it's just a fact.  I personally don't think public schools are bad - my parents have been teachers for longer than I've been alive - but they also aren't designed to accomodate every student.  They're designed, logistically, to teach to the majority.  

My son falls way outside that majority.  He is highly, nearing profoundly, gifted and dyslexic.  He's also very auditory and kinesthetic.  When we lived in Southern California, he attended a private school for gifted kids that was absolutely incredible.  He loved it, we loved it, and the teachers were amazing.  

When we moved to the midwest, however, we moved to an area that values sports (read: football) over academics.  Our state also has strict age/grade correlation laws (your age on Sept. 1 determines your grade, with little to no exceptions), so getting him accelerated was like trying to align the cosmos.  That, combined with the fact that his teacher threatened to "recommend" him for ADHD testing and meds on the second day of school (because he was bored and being a 6 year old boy), catapulted us into the world of homeschooling.

Second, he has health issues that can't feasibly be taken care of in a large school (which those around us are).  He contracted SARS back in '02, which left him critically ill for several weeks.  It also left him with a compromised immune system.  He honestly can't be around the illnesses that go through a school without frequenting the peds ward at the hospital.

Like I said, I don't have anything against schools, and I highly respect teachers.  I was brought up helping in my parents' classrooms and attending conventions with them.  However, I value my son too much to make him suffer through an environment that is really never going to be suited to his needs.  There are very few teachers in our area that are trained to work with gifted kids, and the Ritalin usage around here astounds me...you'd think ADHD was contagious.  My son still needs to move and hear/talk in order to learn (though he is controlling that more and more each year), and he learns at a much faster rate and deeper level than the vast majority of kids his age.  However, due to his dyslexia, he also needs to be taught in ways that don't translate well to most classrooms.  Putting him in a classroom, at least where we live, would not only be traumatic for him, it would probably drive his teacher to drink.

He does participate in a full-day co op with 15-20 other kids each week, and he's very active in Scouts and AWANA.  He gets plenty of practice interacting and learning with other kids, as well as leadership training, but the lion's share of his learning is done at his pace, according to his needs, interests, and learning style.

It's not easy or convenient for me, by any means, but it is worth it.  He's my son, and I'd do anything I had to to make sure he gets the education that really fits him and his needs.  I guess that's why we homeschool :-)

Answer 19

I started homeschooling my oldest child when he was 8, in the second grade. From K-1, his teachers were wonderful. He had a hard time keeping up with the other students, paying attention, fine motor skills, etc., more so than the other boys in the class. His teachers worked with me, and I with them, to help encourage and challenge him on a level he could handle.

Come 2nd grade, his teacher was horrid. Finally I called a meeting with her to try and work out something similar to what we had with his previous teachers. I show up at the meeting and there I am met with the teacher, reading teacher, counselor, and principal. It was like an intervention. "What time does he go to bed? What time does he get up? What is your family life like? What does he eat for breakfast? Let's do some psych observations and get him tested for ADD."

That was all it took. The next week, I went to the office, got his records, and informed them he would not be returning.

Fast forward five and a half years as his little brother approached kindergarten. My husband and I were faced with a choice: send him to school or keep him home with his brother? My youngest does not have the learning difficulties that my oldest had, but that was barely a consideration. We had seen what homeschooling had done for my oldest. Basically, it gave him his self-confidence back (it took a while). It allowed him to explore who he was without being told every day who he was/should be (peer pressure). It allowed him to explore his interests (beyond the few required subjects which are repeated far more often than necessary in public school).

Also, whereas my oldest spent three years in school frustrated and lost (his own words to me a few months ago), we felt our youngest would be bored and unchallenged.

We decided that we enjoyed homeschooling too much, and saw far too many benefits, to send our youngest to school.

Now they are 15 and 8, and are wonderful (and well socialized) kids. I compare my 15 year old to myself at that age. He is so much more self-assured. He lacks certain.. um.. "worldly" knowledge that I had, but I think his life is all the richer for it, as he is not cynical or beaten down by things no child should have to deal with on a daily basis.   He has not had people telling him all his life what to wear, what kind of music to listen to, how he should wear his hair, that he should play this sport or that sport (or that he *can't* play them at all), and on and on and on.

He is now where it took me years of deconditioning to reach.

I could write on this subject for days LOL. In short (now that I've already written a novel), it's the best choice I have ever made.

Answer 20

I have a number of different reasons why we started and now that we've been at it over 4 years we have different reasons why we continue.

My son has in grade 4 and has Aspergers and ps was a nightmare for him. So that got us thinking about hs'ing.

My daughter was in grade one and was constantly in trouble for "socializing" in school and wasn't allowed to use her imagination when drawing.   She was bored out of her mind!  She liked to draw fantasy pictures with purple sky and pink grass and that was quickly squashed in her class.   How sad is that?  She loves to really get into a subject and dig deeply - at school she cuoldn't do that because the bell would ring and she'd have to put it away and onto the next subject they'd go.

My youngest daughter was different.  She hadn't started school but we knew there was something about her that wouldn't work in school.   Turns out she's severe dyslexic and some pretty major learning disabilities.  I do not need her in an underfunded classroom of 30 with a teacher that does not have the time to help her.

Now, however, we do it for the lifestyle, for the education my kids get, for the growing, maturing and social skills they are learning and for the fact that we ENJOY each others company.   I like my kids (most of the time *grin*)  

I, personally, have nothing against the public schools here.  I can't talk about schools elsewhere.

My best friend teaches in the school my kids went to.  Most of the teachers there really care and want to help but when they don't have much $ and they are trying to deal with 30 kids??  They can't do it all.

Answer 21

Yes, there is a bad perception of public schools.  They have this stupid "no child left behind" thing and students that are disruptive but not seriously bad are left in classrooms and interfere with students that want to learn.  Students that refuse to do the assignment should not be in class.

Also if a student is sick a lot, home school is a good option.  I have a niece that passed all her classes but was not promoted to the next grade because she missed class too much.

Answer 22

to spend more time with there kids ,keep then same from gossip ,bad enverment , ganges

Answer 23

Sadly, many public school teachers HOME SCHOOL or send their kids to PRIVATE SCHOOLS, why is that!

Reasons include

Religious views on things

Accelerated or decellerated learning

ESL

Learning Disabilities

Crime

Drugs

Sexaul promiscuity

Bad academics

Loss of School acceditation

Metal Detectors

Kids coming onto campus and SHOOTING anything that moves

Drugs

Promoting kids because they showed up but didn't learn

Kids having BELOW PAR reading and Math skills

Detention

Boys and Girls VPs who yell and discipline

It is WELL established that homeschoolers AS A WHOLE out perform brick schoolers

As for slackers, brick school CAN do better.

Even a jerk or class clown absorbes 10 or 20% in a brick school, but at home they can goof off FAR MORE, that is a truth but only for 10-20%

20-30% of Homeschoolers OUT PERFORM by 2-3 grades

MOST of the REST out perform by 1-2 grades

10-20% s***w off and pay the price

But that happens in Brick School too!

NAtionally 40-60% do C work or BELOW

While in home school 40-60% to B work or above

Many homescollers are college ready by 17, some by 16, a few by 15

This is a documented statstical fact.

Colleges seek out and give priority admission status to homeschoolers

This is a reality

The FACT is that 40-60% of homeschoolers get to PRAY and READ the BIBILE every day and those in BRICK SCHOOL cannot and do not.

And you have to take into consideratioin MOST of the PRIVATE universities and Ivy LEague schools HAVE religiouis affiliations TO a degree

Duke and USC are Methodist schools, basically

Notre Dame is Catholic, so is Loyola

Harvard and Yale are STEEPED in a Religious Foundation WHICH DOES NOT creep into admissions nor reserach.

But the foundation is there to a degree

Muslims want their kids to pray 5 times a day at the wall

Protestants want they kids to say grace before drinking Milk or eating a meal and THESE THINGS ARE TABOO in public schools, by and large.

Public schools hold a position COMMUNISM is not neat

Colleges and homeschoolers learn DIVERSITY even if it conflicts with the U.S. Government.

Many people WANT their kids to understand the BIBLE says the world is 6,000 years old EVEN if SCIENCE says it is not and is billions of years old.

They want BOTH SIDES OF THE COIN taught.

They want their kids to learn we came from ADAM and EVE and GOD even though SCIENCE and DARWIN says otherwise.

This is learning diversely

Everyone in the Homeschool program KNOWS their kids HAVE to answer questions based on the COMMON DEMONATOR, but they also want them to learn the MINORITY or otherwise CONFLICTING or BIASED view point and BRICK SCHOOLS ARE FORBIDDEN from teaching that.

When a homeschooled kid in a GOOD family doesn't master ALGEBRA in the school year, the MAKE them learn it again over the summer IF THEY ARE SERIOUS about an education.

Homeschooled kids can TAKE Chemistry or Phyiscs AS an elective EVEN if they don't FINISH ALGEBRA

You CAN'T do that in public schools.  It JUST isn't allowed.

Once a kid FAILS algebra they become a STUDY HALL major.

Homeschool parents don't take that view, they take the view you can learn something EVEN if you don't master the PREREQUISITS

It's about an EDUCATION in things, not about YOU CAN'T GO TO POINT B unless you pass POINT A

And THAT is what BRICK school is about

That's why it's brick

You slam into it and become a squashed bug on a windshied.

Homeschool DOESn'T TAKE THAT VIEW

You go into PHYSICS and MAYBE you'll re-learn ALGEBRA because you have to

MAYBE with a REASON you will LEAN, finally

Brick school is about A to B to C not A to C bypassing B.

Answer 24

My parents put me in homeschool for multiple reasons, but it wasn't mostly my decision. The public school I went to was really bad, it was full of drugs, the teachers didn't do anything about it, and the work was all to easy for me. 3 kids got caught smoking pot behind the school and they only got 3 days ISS, kids could get away with bringing AND selling drugs in the halls and the teachers didn't do anything. All the work was to easy for me and my teachers yelled at me for finishing projects early. Those are the reasons why I went to homeschool from public school.