Sunday, November 13, 2011

Six reasons to homeschool your children...

There are over 2 million home-educated children in this country, and this number is growing at 2% to 8% per year. This is not surprising, given the dismal track record of the public school system. If you have ever considered homeschooling your children (or even if you have not), here are six reasons to do it.

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Academically, homeschoolers far surpass publicly educated students. In one recent study, standardized test scores of homeschooled students were 37 percentile points above their public school counterparts. Previous studies showed similar results.

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 Most Natural News readers are independent thinkers and healthy skeptics, qualities which are generally discouraged by the public school system. By homeschooling your children you can teach your children to think critically, rather than teaching to the test like they do in public school. This will better equip them to navigate the social, financial, food, and energy crises, which loom in our future. Full story...

Don't miss:
  1. State threatens to use force on German homeschooling family...
  2. Home schooled boy snatched from plane in Sweden...
  3. German homeschooling family granted political asylum in the USA...
  4. Home-schooling families in Botswana threatened, facing jail...
  5. Brazil: couple condemned for homeschooling their kids!!!
  6. Home-schooling, the quiet revolution...
  7. Home-schooling becoming popular in Switzerland...
  8. U.S.: home-schooling growing in popularity...
  9. Stupid in America, a look at American public schools...

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