What Is Homeschooling?
By Sun Kyu Bae |
Published April 29, 2009 |
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Find out what homeschooling is all about. A MUST READ for anyone considering homeschooling!
Certification Concerns
You may have encountered rebuttals from school officials stating that parents who don’t have proper certification shouldn’t teach their children. To these officials, I ask, “how good have your “certifications” helped you to resolve the poor quality teaching, drugs, and other social problems that started in school in the first place?”
For those seriously concerned about certification issues, let me put it this way – no one said you had to be certified to have your children, which is one of the most important choices you can make. Just the fact that you are a parent of your child puts you in the best position to teach since you know your child the best and therefore you know how your child learns the best (if you don’t know, you have the ability to invest time to learn your child’s learning style better than any certified-wielding teacher can – why? Because YOU are the parent who has your child’s best interests at heart while the typical teacher literally doesn’t have time of day to identify this, much less create a curriculum to best fit your child – that last part would fly straight against the public school curriculum).
For those who want more, here are some facts/statistics:
There is no statistical difference between the outcomes of homeschooled kids by parents with certification vs. those who do not have certification,
Homeschoolers outperformed their public school peers by 30% - 37% across all academic subjects based on standard academic achievement tests,
On average, homeschool students in grades 1-4 perform one grade level above their public and private school peers,
By 8th grade, the average homeschool student performs at 4 grades above their public and private school peers,
Students homeschooled their entire lives have the highest scholastic achievement with most of the gains seen during the higher grades (i.e., high school), and
98% of homeschooled students are involved in at least 2 activities outside the “classroom”. In fact, the average number of activities is 5.2 per student (I threw this last one in for those concerned about socialization).
These statistics above were gathered from “The Scholastic Achievement and Demographic Characteristics of Home School Students in 1998”, Lawrence A. Rudner, PH.D., Director of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment, and Evaluation and from Strengths of Their Own—Home Schoolers Across America: Academic Achievement, Family Characteristics, and Longitudinal Traits, Brian D. Ray, 1997.
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