Home Schoolers Grade Our Public School System

Why Home School?

By Carisa Silvesan, published Mar 12, 2008
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There is a huge community, and growing community at that, of home schooling families. While there is still a majority in this country using public schools, you may be surprised to know why many people choose to home school. It should also be a notable fact that while these families choose to excuse their children from public education, they are still footing the bill for it along with the cost of home schooling their own children as well.

While many home schooling families are viewed as conservatives, Republicans and Christians, the truth is many don't choose to home school their children based on those attributes alone. People who don't fall into any of those categories choose to home school for various reasons that have nothing to do with who they are or what they believe. Some families have personal reasons for home schooling their children, but all have issues with public school education and those issues are the deciding factor in whether or not to allow their children into the government-run public education system.

These issues are what should be brought up more and more by every state's Department of Education and furthermore they should be discussed by the Teachers' Union in every corner of the nation. These issues are: lack of proper education, poor socialization skills, rude teachers, extreme discipline for un-extreme actions, school safety, lack of nutrition during lunch time, no religious equality and much, much more. As I said in a previous article regarding the California home school court opinion - parents are FED UP!!

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YES!!!!!!! Thank you so much for writing this article. I started homeschooling my two children 2 yrs ago when my daughter was gr. 2 and my son gr. 4. I pulled them out of the public school system because my daughter, Alex, had started coming home on a regular daily basis with migraine headaches and the teacher was not willing to work with me about it. She refused to call me when the headaches got bad and would just tell her to put her head down on her desk. The last straw was when Alex developed a bladder infection. She turned to me that last morning with huge tears in her eyes saying, "Mom, please homeschool me. Please?! I'll get in trouble if I need to go to the washroom. The teacher will yell at me!" That was it. I told my children to grab their shoes and coats, that Mom had some papers to fill out. Since then, I have gotten nothing but disgust and discouragement from family members telling me my children should be in school. When, there are so many different acti

Posted on 03/12/2008 at 8:03:03 PM

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