Comments on: What motivates parents to home school thier children?

By: mike c

mike c — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:27:36 +0000

good question, I wished I would have asked it

I would GUESS HSing is most popular in the semi-autonomous nation of Deseret or the whole of the mountain time zone. But that is a sweeping generalization!
I am still convinced most HSing is really a ruse abusive parents claim to avoid having the children (especially their daughters) get in contact with the authorities and break the cycle.
So , abuse , I suspect is the number one motivation, color me cynical

what’s the difference? I might as well as a junkie ‘how many grams in a ‘kilo’ ?’

By: debbie k

debbie k — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:00:46 +0000

each state has different laws you need to check on the laws in the state which you live. no I was not homeschooled as a child, what motivated my husband and I to homeschool our children was mainly our son, he was falling way behind, and no one cared, we asked the school to hold him back because his grade were so low and he was so far behind they refused and passed him, we did not want him to graduate not knowing anything, he hated school because he did not understand what he was doing, he was picked at all the time, his nerves were bad. he has ADHD and for three years we have homeschooled him, and he is now doing great. when we started homeschooling him we tested him and he was in 4th grade on a second grade level, so we backed up and started over in a 2nd grade level and now he is on a 10th grade level, and enjoys learning, my childrens happiness and their education is the most important thing to me, and they are happy and so smart, when they graduate I will know they have earned it.

By: Sgt. Moneybags

Sgt. Moneybags — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:36:56 +0000

I’m am schooled because there is no school of good reputation within 1 hours drive. the closest school is five minetes away. but that is a tiny one classroom school that has only 15 students and stops at grade 5. I was traveling 2 &1/2 hours to get to a school that had the courses that i wanted to do.

I have not gotten the contact with other teenagers my age. I’d rather not. I’d rather go to a nursing home and talk to the people there or into a hospital.

By: lazyone347

lazyone347 — Sat, 02 May 2009 16:00:17 +0000

When our Grandson was 14 he was unchallenged in public school. He came down with diabetes and depression. We took him in our home and ordered a curiculum not one that was religious based but did teach ethics and moral responsibility. He finished his high school work just before he turned 16. Applied at the local two year college which took him on condition that he get his GED. At age 16 he passed his GED…he had scored 32 on the ACT. Went to work at age 16 started a job at steak and shake and went full time to school. He is now 22 working on his masters degree. I am sure had we tried to manintain the public school system, we would have lost him.
Even the law coming to the house could not make him go to school. Instead they threatened to arrest his Mother for him not going. So I know there are a lot of reason’s to Home School. I am convinced that there is no better education system than “one on one”if the parent is committed and the material is good.

By: Sugah

Sugah — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:39:58 +0000

I am homeschooling because my husband and I are educators and we feel it is our personal responsibility to educate our children. There are things we want them to be taught that they would not learn in public school and vice versa. In our case it is not because of religious beliefs.

Also because my children’s birthday fall late in the year and we think it ridiculous that they have to be behind a year just because of their birth date.

I was not home schooled as a child but I went to private Catholic school.

Like others have mentioned there are laws but it is legal everywhere.

By: thanatos_azrael

thanatos_azrael — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:29:39 +0000

Schools are ineffective entities to educate our children. They teach to the lowest level of intelligence. The fail to educate it’s all repetition and regurgitation, no learning thinking or thought process.
So if your child is mediocre at best and you want nothing more from them than to get by, by all means go ahead and send them to school. If your child learns at a rate faster or slower than the average, and that average seems to decrease every year, or if you actually want you child to succeed in life then home school them.
I was not home schooled though I wish I was, in retrospect I’m sure the staff and faculty wished it also.
Laws vary from state to state, but it is legal in all states in the US.

By: TammyT

TammyT — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:17:51 +0000

• What motivates parents to homeschool?

There are a lot of stereotypes of why parents homeschool. But honestly, the reasons are all over the board. The only thing that you can say for sure, is that homeschoolers choose not to use classrooms because in some way, it doesn’t meet their children’s needs. Here is a webpage FULL of information to find out what the various people have decided to homeschool.

• Do homeschooled children tend to homeschool their own children?

In my experience, this is the norm. But there are a lot of variables involved that have nothing to do with where person received their education. So, it’s not that rare for homeschoolers to decide to use classroom schools.

• What are the laws regarding homeschooling?

Homeschooling and educational laws vary from state to state. You’ll have to do research to find out what the laws are in your state . Here’s an introduction to homeschooling laws:

• Where in the US is homeschooling most popular?

Well, that’s an interesting question. I would say that generally, the more people you have, the more likely there will be a large homeschooling community in that area. Surprisingly, religion doesn’t really play a huge rule on the number of homeschoolers. It’s more tied to cultural perceptions. The states I see most often on my nation-wide homeschool support lists are California, New York, Florida and Texas. But every state has a strong homeschooling community.

It sounds like you are interested in hard facts. So here’s a page with a lot of links to that kind of information:

By: plezurgui

plezurgui — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:41:38 +0000

Parents who home school are interested in their children learning a lot more than they get in Public school.
The Parents want to avoid exposing their children to distorted values of sex education and perversion. If I had a child about to enter school and the local school board was having lesbians come in and talk about fisting and masturbation to the middle school, I would definitely choose either home schooling or private school.
No doubt there are many excellent public schools around the country, but if you are unfortunate enough to live in the wrong spot, I can see a real need for home schooling.
The laws are different from state to state, mostly on the degree of follow-up and testing.

By: Ibredd

Ibredd — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:28:27 +0000

public schools are like public restrooms, you just don’t go there unless you have to.

By: boo .

boo . — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:46:44 +0000

I, personally, homeschool my son because he was having a hard time at school. Not that he wasn’t doing well. He got excellent grades (and still does with the homeschooling). But because he is gay, he used to get teased horribly and sometimes even beaten up! So I pulled him out of school, and decided to teach him myself. There are a lot of parents out there who homeschool their children for the same reason.