Why I chose to homeschool my kids

Coronavirus lockdowns prompted a rise in homeschooling as parents’ attitudes have shifted positively toward home education. Not only did COVID give some parents the ability and motivation to start homeschooling, but many families also have not been satisfied with what their child’s school has offered them. They feel public schools are inflexible and standardized and that teachers are either unwilling or unable to customize their children’s education- they are “all treated the same” rather than having an education that is “more individualized.” 

Parents are finding out, they do not need a government teaching license to be effective teachers; they do not need neighbor’s tax money for their children to learn; they do not need the professor created curriculum; they do not need their children to be around 20+ peers for 6 hours per day to be well socialized. Many families have experienced the flexibility, stability, and safety that the home environment offers. 

Why I chose to homeschool my kids for now: 

• We can go as quickly or slowly as we need to. 
• Children have to follow a particular pattern at school, and there’s bullying, belittling — compared to being home where they’re free to be themselves.
• Parents have the right to teach their kids what they value and pass on their religious and cultural perspectives.
• Kids are increasingly learning about sex education, LGBTQ+ issues and are exposed to too much about gender and sexuality, pushing the kids to accept alternative lifestyles, but they don’t want you to teach about a heterosexual lifestyle.
• We don’t have to live at the whim of the institutional school and its schedule.
• We have more family time.
• We have a more flexible schedule. 

Homeschooling allows children the opportunity to go at their own pace, to explore their own interests. In addition, it allows parents to be more involved in their children’s education. 

The pandemic was just the catalyst that pushed me to seriously consider what I want my kids’ educations to look like, the roles I want to play as a parent, and the options I have outside the default educational institutions.

Besides, Public schools fight to provide more information that promotes diversity, not less. And offer parents who oppose these democratic approaches to learning have the option of private or religious education or homeschooling for their children.

So year by year… we’ll see how it goes and what’s best for our family as the years and the days go.

Who has a better-vested interest in my kids’ well-being and their education than me?”