1. Homeschoolers usually dodge many of the quack teaching methods popular in “teacher education”.
2. Homeschoolers usually dodge incompetent/uncaring teachers or as Bobby Fisher put it “teachers are jerks”.
3. Homeschoolers usually dodge many of the excesses of political correctness.
4. Homeschoolers usually dodge the secularism of public schools and can speak freely of the Bible, God, and Christian philosophy.
You are absolutely correct, but she probably had a word limit ...
The other advantage it missed was that if you find a certain curriculum is unsuitable, you can switch whenever you want. The “curriculum director” is just a heartbeat away :)
The Census Bureau released this report today; thought it was interesting about the type of people who home school.
U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for September 14
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Following is the daily
“Profile America” feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14: HOME SCHOOLING
With school under way again, yellow school buses are a familiar sight
lumbering along roads all over the country. But a number of children do not
climb aboard each morning — their parents have decided to make the
extensive personal commitment to home school their children. Across the
nation, there are nearly 56 million students enrolled from kindergarten
through 12th grade. Youngsters being educated at home number 1.1 million,
or about 2 percent of the total. About half of all home schooled children
are in grades K through 5. Households involved in home schooling tend to be
made up more often of two-parent families, and families in which only one
parent is working. You can find these and more facts about America from the
U.S. Census Bureau on the Web at http://www.census.gov.