With the recent rise in families transitioning from public education to home schooling, one naturally wonders, what exactly are the homeschooling advantages? One of the biggest reasons for homeschooling is the amount of control you have over your child’s education, with the following advantages at the top of the list:
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Are you thinking about homeschooling? Learn about the pros and cons of homeschooling before making your decision. With homeschooling you have total control and flexibility of your child’s education. But is that an advantage or disadvantage?
Many parents think they cannot teach their child because they don’t have the necessary teaching credentials. This is just not true. If you have the desire and complete commitment to help your child succeed, you can ensure your child has the education needed to become a productive adult.
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Religion is very personal, and as such, creates a lot of controversy. Who is right, who is wrong? The ability to teach what you want in regards to your religious beliefs is perhaps one of the greatest homeschooling advantages.
The parent decides what religious ideologies, if any, to present to their child and how to roll that into the homeschool curricula. With some curricula, religion is woven throughout every lesson. With others, it is a separate subject.
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Another of the great homeschooling advantages is the individual attention you can give your child or children. Public school teachers just cannot provide much one-on-one attention to their students, the teacher-student ratio is just too high.
Classroom curriculums in public schools are based on the average child. By definition, this means that while half the class gets ‘it’ in the alloted time frame, the rest of the class is either bored (because they got ‘it’ a long time ago) or frustrated (because they just don’t get ‘it’).
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One of the biggest homeschooling advantage is curriculum choice. When talking about curriculum choices, it can actually be thought of in two ways: what is taught and how it is taught.
First, you have total control over the curriculum being taught – you select the desired curriculum, be it religious-based or not. From there, the freedom that homeschooling provides allows you to customize that curriculum to your child.
If your child loves everything about the sea, for example, you can tailor the curriculum all around the oceans and seas. Have math correspond to things about the ocean, from counting sharks for early elementary years, to calculating SCUBA dive time tables for older kids. If you really think about a subject, there are so many ways to incorporate several subjects.
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As long as you have decent time management skills, the flexibility in your child’s school schedule can be another great advantage of homeschooling. This doesn’t mean you just teach whenever you and your child want. You definitely want an actual schedule to follow. If you do not, your child will surely suffer and not learn all that is needed in the academic school year.
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