Home education is a lifestyle choice
BevK May 3rd, 2007
Choosing to educate your children at home is more than an exercise in educational freedom. It’s a lifestyle choice that involves many options and decisions.
I think the statement that home education is a lifestyle choice needs to be made more frequently. Homeschooling is not just an alternative to sending your kids to the public school. Those who plan to homeschool for a year or two and then put children back into school don’t ever discover what “true” homeschooling is…it’s a lifestyle. (If they stick to that goal of returning kids to public school.) Once you’re invested in that lifestyle, keeping on track with the public school is no longer a concern. You don’t have to study what third graders are studying when you have a third grade age child. You can create a curriculum that suits your family, your children, and your own educational philosophy. A homeschooling lifestyle means taking advantage of opportunities as they arise and scaling back academics when life requires. It means that you can take your time with developmental delays rather than having your child labeled as learning disabled and forced to take special classes and feel “stupid.” The homeschooling lifestyle is so much more. But it’s not something that you discover until you decide to make a true attempt. You can’t look back to public school or you risk becoming a pillar of salt.
Read the article at FWfamily News.
