Home Schooling is for Normal People

When our daughter was in third grade in a public school, we had an opportunity to go to Mexico for two weeks for an incredibly low price. The problem was that although one of the weeks coincided with Spring break, the other week was the week before Spring break. We asked the teacher how much material our student would miss and would it hurt her in any course if we went out of the country that week. The teacher informed us that they would not be covering any new material that week and if our daughter wanted to turn in her homework assignments before leaving, she would miss out on nothing that week except a perfect attendance score.

For two weeks in Mexico our little student put to use the contents of her Spanish language course and learned more about the history and culture of Mexico than she ever would have in a public school in the USA.

Since we started home schooling them, our children have been on more field trips than they ever could have gone on in public school. My daughter’s standardized test scores have sky rocketed and unlike public school, my children have not had to under go a single bomb threat evacuation (they had three the year before we pulled them from public school).

In our experience children that are home schooled participate in more social activities than they did when the were in public school. Soccer, chess clubs, Kung Fu, meeting friends and other home schooling students at the park, public pool and museums are just some of the activities that we have been able to add since shucking the harness of the public school schedule.