Over one million families in the United States choose homeschooling over traditional education. This stunting figure was released according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
Homeschooling is not unique, because historically, that was the norm in education. However, it was considered too radical by many education experts between the 1970’s- 1990’s. Nowadays, it is legalized in every state and more than 1 million children has undergone homeschooling. With many top colleges reserving departments just to recruit homeschool students, we suspect many more parents are seriously considering homeschooling.
The interesting thing was… what prompted such a change? There have been many recent surveys to suggest that parents are concerned with traditional options. It is seen as being superficial with no real-life skills being applied and taught.
Parents are also concerned about the negative publicity often portrayed in news. Examples are school students taking drugs in schools, abusing fellow students physically and even students bringing guns and knifes to school. Parents are concerned about the negative peer influence these students cause to their child.
Homeschooling offers an opportunity to reduce or eliminate that risk, and allows parents to bring up their children in a natural and loving environment. We believe homeschooling is especially important in the early years of a child’s development (between three to twelve years old) as this is the period where they are prone to negative influences and peer pressure and cannot differentiate what is right and what is wrong. Homeschooling helps to protect them from such negative influences.
Another benefit of homeschooling is an inevitable bond between the child and the parents. The parents and the child spends more time together forming an unique bond. The bond gets stronger as time passes and later you will find that you can connect with your child better than you never thought before.
Parents can also have better control over the kind of moral and religious beliefs a child should have. Families can impart their moral values and beliefs to their child easily since they spend more time together.
So what’s stopping parents from adopting homeschooling?
For one thing, homeschooling requires a lot of time and money. For most families, both parents needs to be working full-time to support the family. Most homeschooling families are dependent on one parent for income. The other parent has to devote full-time in homeschooling the child. Therefore in some cases, it is not possible to adopt homeschooling unless you are financially stable.
With The Brooks Academy, there are several blended learning options we recommend if you are not able to take on homeschool full-time. Contact us to learn more about options you can exercise, even if it is not a right fit for you right now.
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