| With all the advances in education and teaching | | | | to develop their special skills, some thing that a |
| methods over the last hundred years, are there really | | | | school cannot do for one or two children. Additionally, |
| any good reasons why children should not be sent to | | | | there are important life skills that are best taught by |
| school but be taught at home? Are there any home | | | | active participation, such as shopping for healthy |
| school advantages? After all home schooling is as old | | | | foods or home repair that schools cannot provide but |
| as mankind - till a few hundred years ago most | | | | which can be learned home. |
| children never went to school and learned everything | | | | Much of the time spent in school is not on learning, |
| they needed from their parent at home. Is there a | | | | but in waiting. Children sit in the bus, sometimes for |
| sound reason why some parents should choose the | | | | hours to get to and from school. In school itself they |
| turn their backs on the modern system of education | | | | wait for a teacher to finish a subject they have |
| and stick with something that has been around for | | | | already completed, wait for other students to finish |
| thousands of years? The answer is first that parent | | | | their work, wait for lunch and wait in lines for just |
| who choose home school for their children are not | | | | about everything. Among the other home school |
| turning their backs on modern education, they are | | | | advantages is the fact that children educated at |
| simply choosing to impart it in their own way and | | | | home do not have to waste time in this manner and |
| secondly, that home schooling today has little relation | | | | even while working at their own pace, can finish a |
| with the informal home education given in the past. | | | | day's worth of study in about half the time it takes |
| Even the best of teachers are limited by the size of | | | | in a normal school environment. This gives them time |
| the classes they teach. They have to work to the | | | | to other things that may not be part of a school |
| average requirements of the children and do not | | | | curriculum but are still import for their futures. |
| have the time to focus on the special needs of each | | | | Many people regard the extended time a family |
| child. Parents understand their children and their | | | | spends together as the most important of all home |
| special requirements and so are able to tailor the | | | | school advantages. The more time a family spends |
| teaching they do so to the child is able to perform to | | | | together, the strong are the bonds that develop. |
| his or her best. | | | | These bonds and the greater influence that the |
| School curricula does offer choices in the subjects | | | | parents exert make it easier for the children to |
| student takes but these are limited and based on | | | | absorb the values the parent hold important and |
| popular demand. One of the many home school | | | | reduces the chance of negative peer pressure having |
| advantages is that parents can focus on the specific | | | | a harmful influence on them. |
| talents of their children and provide them education | | | | |