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I want to know what it was that made you pull your kids out of public school? Was it drugs, your kid being bullied, or the school discriminating against your disabled child? Was it something less serious? What was your “ahh-haa moment.”

I am NOT judging your choice, I am just curious. I’d prefer answers from parents who pulled their child out of public school to homeschool them.

Just curious what drove your decision to homeschool and if you feel it is a better situation for your kids and family as a whole.

i live in Georgia, and the principal at school told me if I homeschool I will have to purchase and use the same books that the schoolsystem teach with at public schools. Is this true? And also, where can I find out the basics they must learn at home to pass standardized tests every 2/3 years so that i can make sure that they have learned everything to pass the test. What is the name of the test?

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Many times, parents ask whether homeschooling works. It’s true that parents know that public schools can often have problems, but they don’t know that they can do any better if they teach their children themselves that if they send their children to public school. As an alternative, some parents opt for private school. Since a child’s education is so important, though, they’re understandably cautious when they think of homeschooling their children themselves.

However, numerous studies show that homeschooling in large part produces superior results as compared to public or even private schooling. Part of this may be due to the fact that homeschooling by default means that parents are involved in their children’s educations. This is also often true in public or private school education, but not always. Therefore, may be parental involvement is the deciding factor, rather than the homeschooling situation itself.

However, even when this is taken into consideration, homeschooling still produces better results versus public or private school.

A study sponsored by the US Department of Education showed that homeschooling students’ scores were “exceptionally high” as compared to their peers. Every grade showed median scores higher than those for public or even parochial or private school students. Homeschooled students who would have been in grades one through four functioned at least a grade level above their peers. By the time they reached what was the equivalent of eighth grade, they were four years ahead of their public school peers.

In part, this may be explained by the fact that public schools in general often do a substandard job and not that homeschooling is by default superior. However, homeschooled students were even functioning above their private school peers.

In addition, homeschooling costs less than either private or public school does. On average, public schools spent $6,500 per student per year. Private schools spent $3,500 per student per year. Homeschoolers spent just $550 per student per year. Of course, the last number does not adjust for the fact that a parent teaches for “free” and teachers are paid monetarily.

Public school first became commonplace in the second half of the 19th century. At that time, more and more states made at least basic education compulsory. This was done in an attempt to increase literacy rates. Prior to that time, many parents were only barely literate in the English language themselves, often because they had just immigrated to the United States. Nonetheless, despite this, illiteracy rates in Massachusetts in 1840 were still just 2% among adults. By 1995, that figure had jumped to 19%, despite the supposedly increased emphasis on literacy in recent years as well as a much greater availability of books and other reading materials.

Presently, approximately one million children are homeschooled in America yearly. Many thousands have attended universities and colleges. Some of those colleges were prestigious and very difficult to get into. With homeschooling, peer pressure that normally plagues children otherwise eager to learn is absent. Instead, the parent or tutor, as well as any “classmates,” only encourage the student.

In short, homeschooling is a wonderful way to give your child an education if you’re up to the task.

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When i was in public high school i got mostly good grades but failed all of my classes one semester because of medical reasons. This year i will be a junior and i want to be homeschooled i either want to be in a correspondence school or just do traditional homeschool. If i do this how can i make up the failed credits and get my diploma? Thanks

Trying to convince my parents to let me into public school, and they may consider it if I can put up a decent argument. I really would like some of the positive aspects of both public school and homeschool.

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T. Smith

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If you skip a grade in homeschool and switch back to public, will you still be in the same grade as homeschool?

I want to go to public school for my last year, how hard is it to get in? Can they make me repeat a grade? I really don’t want to repeat a grade but I really don’t want to continue with homeschool. Is there some sort of test you have to take? Are they really biased against homeschoolers? I’m kinda freaking out. please help.

We live in shelby county.
She started kindergarten in august and I’ve decided that I would rather homeschool her. How do I go about taking her out of public schools?