The Academic Benefits of Homeschool

This is a sequel to my social benefits of homeschooling AC article. Everyone is an individual, each mind functions differently, and children are brilliant and some require a little extra time and attention, so where does this put public schools? Public education is a great thing for the parents who just want their child to go to school and get an education, trouble free... if that is possible.

The public education system works like this, 30 kids in a classroom, with 1 teacher. The subjects are taught, and while a few brilliant children run right through the subject and are hungry and waiting for more, they must put their minds on hold and wait for 50% of the rest of the class, the "Average" students, to catch up with them. If you take a close examination of this system, in reality there may be as few as 2 or 3 students to whom the progression and teaching of the class is really the right speed for them, all the rest either struggle at home to figure it out, or they get left behind. The brilliant students on the other hand are not reaching their potential, not even by a long shot. Many of these brilliant kids get left behind, not because they cannot keep up with it, but because they lose interest all together because it no longer keeps them challenged.

Add to this, one teacher trying to assist 30 kids in a subject. How many times I remember sitting in class and kids raising their hands to ask questions, and about half get answered then the teacher says, "Let's move on", and the other half of the kids don't get their questions answered. Then of course you have the students who are shy and don't want to ask their questions, (especially in the younger age groups), or the others who are afraid their question is going to sound stupid, or maybe the teacher already answered their question and they weren't listening, so they don't even ask their question.