Considering Home Schooling?

Considering Home Schooling?

Article by Troy L Parrish

Is your child struggling in school? Have you been having difficulty with their school performance for some time? Are you concerned about the things they are being exposed to in school by peers and some of the things that are being taught? Possibly you are considering home schooling your child as a way of addressing these concerns. Home schooling as an acceptable means of educating your child continues to grow and is gaining in terms of its acceptability. As a result of its growth, there are also a growing body of resources for home educators. This article will touch briefly on those resources to encourage you in your consideration of this very real option.

The home school alternative is greatly helped by the presence of a vast array of home school curriculum. From its early days with few curriculum choices home school educating has grown and there are a multitude of curriculums to choose from to fit just about any need. Are you looking for a complete curriculum that basically provides all that you need and takes the guess work out? There are a number of fine complete curriculums including A Beka Book, BJU Press and Homesat, Alpha Omega Publications, Calvert School, among others. You can also use an eclectic approach and choose curriculum from a number of vendors including those listed above among hundreds of others. The advantage of the eclectic approach is that you can tailor your curriculum to your child’s needs. There is even a growing amount of material readily available for children with learning disabilities.

Feeling that your child needs a little more than what you can provide at home? Feel like you need some support? Many home school families have joined together to form support groups to provide encouragement and guidance to one another as well as Co-Ops in which your student attends class or classes taught by someone other than yourself. The Co-Op maintains control over the curriculum and class content and your child can attend as many or as few of the classes as you see fit. There are national support groups designed to help those that have students with learning disabilities (The Geocities link below will take you to a site that lists many of these organizations). One such support group is NATHHAN, you can visit their website to learn more about them. Most areas also have available umbrella organizations that you join in order to review your work and maintain some accountability and often is part of satisfying state requirements. Consequently, the days of a home school family operating in isolation are gone. You will find a healthy community of home schoolers just about anywhere you live.

Concerned about the legal issues of home schooling or the requirements of your state to begin home schooling? The Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) is a group that is specifically geared towards the rights of families to home school. With legal defense services available to members (at 0 a year this is truly a tremendous bargain) you can have some confidence that your rights to home school will be protected, but you must be a member prior to any legal contact with the state in order to receive the services. HSLDA also has a large amount of information about the requirement of each state when it comes to home schooling, reviews and accountability. You can visit their web site and find a wealth of information, there link is provided below.

Are you concerned about the effectiveness of home schooling? Do you wonder just how well educated your child will be if you home school him or her? The encouraging news is that if you do your part, your child will most likely perform better than their public school peers academically and be better socialized. Research into this issue of performance by home school students demonstrates repeatedly that home school students outperform their public and private school peers on standardized tests and demonstrate superior socialization. To see the results of the research you can visit our website, The Homeschool Organizer, listed below and look for the free report. This report provides a significant amount of detail on the scientific research conducted by independent researchers as well as state organizations into the effectiveness of home schooling.

If you are considering home schooling, hopefully this article will be some encouragement to you that you can do it. Have any questions, contact us and we will try to get the answers that you need.

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For questions or further information visit us at http://Thehomeschoolorganizer.com. You can find the research article on the effectiveness of homeschooling there plus contact us for more information on homeschooling. The link for HSLDA is: http://www.HSLDA.org The link for the NATHHAN group is http://NATHHAN.com

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