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You know home schooling works, but your in-laws or parents or spouse or neighbor just won't take your word for it and won't leave you alone, either. Here's help convincing them: Statistics, studies and ideas. It really does work and you can help them see it!
Nearly 2 million US children are home schooled! Here's how they measure up in studies:
Homeschoolers by their test scores.
How are homeschoolers doing in college?
Homeschool Socialization: Activities & Numbers.
Homeschoolers well-socialized, studies & experience show.
Publik Skule vs. Home School
by Doug Giles
"It's been eleven months since we pulled our teenage daughters out of the public school system and started to home school them, and I could kick myself for waiting so long. The educational, emotional, spiritual and physical progress they have made has been amazing. Not that they were anti-intellectual psychologically teetering bloated decadent nut jobs before they started home schooling, it's just that I've been ecstatically stunned at how they have aggressively embraced this new lease on their educational life."
Articles, Essays and Stories
Mr. Artfellow: An Illustrative Story
Missing out on a prom
Why I Home School
The social, academic and other advantages of home schooling.
Social Skills I Want for My Children
They aren't school skills; they're real skills and habits that will serve my children well in the real world. |