28 Reasons to Not Give Up Homeschooling

1. I don’t want to be part of a system that as a whole is failing.
2. I know what my sons are learning. Want to see? Check out my blog where I share part of it publicly.
3. Even on a budget, each of my sons can have their own book without having to share.
4. If we fall behind, we can easily catch up.
5. I know my sons’ friends. Their families know us and are like-minded.
6. Why should same age peers be their only friends? Cultivating lasting friendships takes time like being around each other every day.
7. I can foster my sons’ creativity, passions and ideas which may or may not be accepted as the norm.
8. Learning outside the classroom like taking field trips should not be something that is just done in primary grades. High school kids especially benefit from real life learning.
9. Inculcating Bible values take a priority which are of most lasting value than covering any academic subject.
10. Did I mention that I don’t have to make a choice between rigorous academic standards and Bible standards? I can teach both.
11. A waste of time is well – a waste of time. Enforcing a valuable use of my sons’ time builds their self-confidence.
12. Because I know my sons the best, I can apply the right amount of discipline or gentleness each day.
13. Extended family members like precious grandparents can be part of my sons’ everyday learning experiences.
14. Not if but when a crisis hits our family, we can take time to heal.
15. Because my grading system can accurately reflect strengths and weaknesses.
16. I choose to refuse the government’s cookie cutter education.
17. Because my husband and I alone want to decide how my children should be educated.
18. Because I don’t believe in incarceration within four walls for children when it comes to teaching them about the world around them.
19. Because when children are away me for eight hours, I am not the one influencing them.
20. Because schools are more obsessed with testing than building a database of knowledge.
21. Some families of public school are more interested in public school providing day care instead of education. An attitude I don’t want my sons adopting about education.
22. I am not interested in my kids attending public school so that it can be improved and reformed at the expense of my child’s one shot at being a child.
23. Children grow up, get jobs and have families and I want to be able to say I gave them an excellent education without interference from those not like-minded.
24. During the most vulnerable time of my child’s life, they don’t have to be crushed by the words of a bully.
25. Children are not robbed of a childhood because of the workload of homework that steals their time in the evening for exploring, imagining and playing.
26. Because public school can’t even come close to the healthy and varied amounts of lunches we have every day.
27. Because exercise is a valuable part of my son’s development and I can feed their natural need to move by adding more activities to our day.
28. Because my boys would not spend as much time with older kids, adults and their grandparents as they have been able to during our many years of homeschooling.

Have any of your own to add to the list?

Hugs and love ya,

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