Resource Author Francisco Rodriguez Higueras
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There's an interesting movement taking place across America these days. While all over the world tensions are heating up over wars and saber rattling, while the collective economies worldwide are in shambles and while most of the rest of the world, it would seem, are on their Internet blogs, a small, but growing number of parents are beginning to home school their children.
Most families can't afford to lose one of their regular paychecks. Part-time, night or weekend work can supplement, but most of the time it won't be enough. There are a few ways around this that we can discuss. Some of these might work for some couples, but not for others. If you want to homeschool you might just have to get creative to get the job done. If may not be an ideal situation, but it's not forever.
Some people are homeschooling entirely in the evening after both get home from work. Homeschooling doesn't require the time that public school does. There's no commute. There are no set class times. There's no waiting for other students. There's instant one-on-one attention and almost-instant paper grading. It's a streamlined method of teaching in many ways. Young students require generally not much more than an hour a day gradually increasing to five to six hours per day in high school. And speaking of high school, by the time students get this far they are generally just monitored anyway and work on their own. An excellent way to keep your job and monitor their work each morning or evening.
Most of the concern in reason number one is centered around violence, the threat of violence or the way students were allowed to interact with each other while at school. As we all remember, there were always bullies and snide little girls who both found a way to play tricks, talk badly about us or in some cases actually cause us minor harm in some way. Some schools have gone a long way past that sort of behavior these days. Kids have been injured or killed and not just in the mass slayings so much in the news these days. We're talking about daily acts of purposeful harm or threats to students by other students. Maybe it's the violence in the media and movies or the latest gansta hip-hop song lyrics or even fast food; no one knows for sure. The simple fact remains that it gets harder to deal with every year. And it's not just the kids making this a difficult matter to deal with. Teachers have told me it's much worse sometimes to deal with the parents of those kids. Some parents blame the teachers themselves for the way their kids are and the way they act. It's as if there's been a paradigm shift in some people's minds that the school system should raise the kids and teach them right from wrong and how to conduct themselves around other people. What had normally and rightly been a duty and responsibility of parents has now somehow been shifted toward the school systems. And in the litigious society we live in, we all know that kind of thing would even be impossible to do even if they wanted to. Something is indeed out of whack. It's actually surprising more parents aren't home schooling.
The second reason to home school given above really needs no explanation. Parents merely want more structure and faith to enter into their children's education. That's their prerogative.
And the third reason is actually self-explanatory also. Parents just don't feel their school systems live up to their expectations for a quality education. They would rather sacrifice their time and money than short their child's education. A noble expression of love.
Also, many parents believe that a child's educational curriculum should include not only academic learning, but also the teaching of morals, ethics, and values. According to recent polls, about 77 percent of Americans identify themselves as Christians. Christian values are an important part of our functioning society and providing children with home schooling is a great way to ensure that they are social and moral values in addition to academic learning
