What is Homeschooling?
Written by Deana at The Frugal Homeschooling Mom
There are about 1.5 million children in the United States that are homeschooled (as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics’ “The Condition of Education 2000-2009”). Homeschooling (a.k.a. home education or home learning) is simply the education of children at home, instead of the traditional classroom setting. In the typical homeschool, children are taught by a parent or a tutor. It is a legal alternative to education in all 50 states. Until the 1850’s, in fact, homeschooling was the norm.
There are many reasons why some families choose to homeschool. Many reasons include unsatisfactory public schools, high academic standards or objections to public school curriculum, religious reasons, parenting style, parent occupations requiring frequent travel or relocation, learning disabilities requiring specialized instruction, a desire for closer family relationships, and hundreds of other reasons.
There are many different types of homeschooling philosophies, including Schooling at Home (and the Comprehensive Curriculum Approach, the Unit Studies Approach, the Student-Paced Learning Approach, and Dual Enrollment), Montessori method, Classical education (and Trivium and Quadrivium), Charlotte Mason education, Waldorf education, Distance Learning (and the Correspondence Course Approach and Online Education), Thomas Jefferson education, Multiple Intelligences Theory, and Unschooling (and the Natural Learning Approach, and Radical Unschooling). Many homeschooling families choose an Eclectic Approach to homeschooling.
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Deana is a homeschooling mother who uses her experience as a previous public school teacher to teach her own child at home. She shares her knowledge of homeschooling and living life abundantly at The Frugal Homeschooling Mom.
