The public schools are worse than Planned Parenthood ever thought of being. If your child was not born with a birth defect or a mental disability, they will have one before finishing the first year of pre-school.
Our decision was mostly based on reading the Bible. Perhaps the poor quality of education, the indoctrination, the idiotic peers, the rigid schedule, etc had something to do with the decision. However, if all that stuff was favorable, the biblical commands would still be there.
Psalm 1:1-5
Proverbs 1, 2, 13, 22
Deuteronomy 6 and 11
1 Corinthians 3:18-20, 15:33
Colossians 2
1 Timothy 6:20
Ping
My sister was the first person I know to homeschool in our area...that was in the early 1980’s.
Myself and other siblings followed her lead. At our son’s wedding about 5 years ago, there was a family photo and I counted 19 homeschooled kids in the photo (there were none who hadn’t been homeschooled) The homschooled included mine, my nieces and nephews, and their children (2nd generation homeschooling going on), and my DIL and one of my nieces husband were also homeschooled.
It exponentially grows, as parents teach children, and children teach their children.
Urban school districts such as Philadelphia have incredible rates of spending. Their failures are NOT due to inadequate funding.
2 million—or 2.5 percent—of the nation’s 77 million school-age children are educated at home,
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This “2 million” number has been used for **years**. The true number is likely many times that.