by Mary Snyder

Created on: May 20, 2008

Most people home school due to ensuring the child gets the one on one attention needed for academic reasons. Some children do not work to their true potential due to a very distractive environment. Others do quite well with it.

Schooling needs are as individual as the student them selves are. Each one has their own pace of learning and processing the information received. Take a car accident for instance, Three people see the accident and all have differing views as to what exactly happened. The same holds with any group of students.

They can more readily go on class field trips as the parents are the teachers and know how to get the child's interests peaked.

Let's not forget about bullying and school violence in general either. Granted, some feel that bullying is just part of growing up, but this does not need to affect the child's learning in the process. If the parent is doing a good job at home schooling and passing all the mandated tests there should be no problem with it.

As for any outside interactions, most home schooled children still have that interaction, just in a little different environment. They play with the neighborhood kids, go on bike rides after school work is completed and everything else that goes with growing up. Just not in the same volume as it is in the public/private school sectors.

Then there are those who suffer illnesses of one form or another creating a great amount of absenteeism, it may be excused or the school knows that they are validated, but the issue of the lost knowledge still has to be compensated somehow.

And there are those that do this for religous reasons as well. Not only to protect their beliefs but they may have just lost faith in the public school systems ability to educate on a level they see fit.

I have a sister that home schools and her children are extremely smart and yet have a wide circle of friends as well. They are locally involved in community plays and other functions. I never saw any parents more involved in the aggressive education than the two of them. They are doing a great job and they did it because of the schedules for home and work as well as making sure they get the individual attention that they need.

I would have to say from those that I know that Home school their children most of them do it to have a stronger relationship with them and they say that they learn as well.

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