The reason I’m strongly in favor of homeschooling if because I believe it’s the perfect environment for learning. The academics of a homeschool are always and can always be challenging and yet they never have to be overwhelming, and that’s the only place you’re going to get that setting.
Homeschooling allows for socialization that is always safe and supportive and it never has to be threatening or scary in anyway. Homeschooling allows time for specialization; homeschooling is much more efficient since you’re not waiting for the bus and you’re not waiting in line, kids have much more time to specialize in something that they’re passionate about.
It’s one of the reasons why colleges seek homeschoolers. A common fear early in the homeschool movement was that homeschool kids wouldn’t make it into college. Now, the tables are turned. Colleges actively seek out homeschoolers!
In our homeschool, we prepared our kids academically and part of that academic preparation was SAT preparation. SAT covers reading, writing, and math which what we want our kids to know what to do. Because of their academic preparation, they were invited to compete in the full tuition scholarship competition. They were told to bring something that they could talk about who they were.
Because we had time to specialize as homeschoolers, they each had something very unique that they could bring to talk about. My older son brought his chess set and he talked about how he teaches chess. My younger son brought a charcoal drawing of the French economist, Jean Baptiste Say, so that he could talk about political economy.
They found out later that they weren’t judged their academics but they were evaluated based on how they interacted with their peers when nobody was looking. The ironic part is my kids were given full tuition scholarship because of socialization.
