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Archive for January, 2010
What Are the Reasons For Home Schooling Children?
Jan 2nd
What is important is that every child gets the best possible education available. It doesn’t matter if that is a public school, private school or any other type of school with special programs or it is schooling from home. People are different. They have different backgrounds, different financial power and different beliefs and according to those, parents are completely competent to bring decisions about their children educations.
We don’t always agree about how other people raise their children but the truth is that even if we think that we are completely right, someone else doesn’t agree with our ways. That is why, we all should do our best in raising our children the best way we know and hope that it is good way.
Most often reason for home schooling children are religious parents. Being religious means that you have strong beliefs how your whole family should behave and act in certain situations and that is why it is crucial to limit contact with other children who don’t pursue those beliefs. Some people would think right away that this is not very good for those kids but if home schooling doesn’t bring some extreme consequences with it, than its parents right to do what they think it’s best for their family.
Homeschooling High School and Feeling Alone?
Jan 1st
Some homeschool families feel all alone. They may be the only homeschoolers in the area, the only people who know that homeschooling high school is possible. I have received phone calls from remote households across the country. Although the parents are committed to homeschooling, some feel isolated and completely alone.
One hero of the past was perhaps the most isolated person in world history. Noah. If you are alone, think about Noah for a moment. He was building a ship, a HUGE ship, in the middle of a desert. He was laughed at by those in the area. He was not laughed at during the school year, or during high school, or even for 18 years of homeschooling. Noah was misunderstood, maligned, and ostracized for possibly ONE HUNDRED YEARS!
Like you, his children were probably looked at with questioning eyes, as they helped their father build the Ark. What do you suppose the neighbors said about Noah “forcing” his children to build the ark? Cannot you just imagine them saying, “But Noah, what about SOCIALIZATION?!” How would it feel to receive persecution for a hundred years?