The Kansas City Star has an excellent article on homeschooling:
Reasons for homeschooling vary from family to family. Some choose homeschooling as a way to guide not only their child’s academic progress but also their spiritual development. Others may believe their child needs more help than teachers with classrooms of 20 to 30 students can give an individual student. Some parents want to maintain a closer rein on the child’s peer group.
Whatever their reason, the recurring theme among homeschoolers is a concern for their children.
“What’s important is what is best for the kids,†said Linda Nelson of rural Clay County. Nelson homeschooled three sons and runs a home-based business, Sacred Heart Books and Gifts LLC, that sells books and other supplies for homeschoolers.
One thing the article didn’t mention was, if you are going to homeschool, it is in your best interest to join the Home School Legal Defense Asociation. From their website:
Home School Legal Defense Association is a nonprofit advocacy organization established to defend and advance the constitutional right of parents to direct the education of their children and to protect family freedoms. Through annual memberships, HSLDA is tens of thousands of families united in service together, providing a strong voice when and where needed.Â
Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. Social workers can make a homeschoolers life quite miserable.
Related posts:
