Home-schooling
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Dear Parent,
Are you less than 100% happy with the school system?
Has the thought of Home Schooling your child crossed your mind but
you are scared it may be the wrong decision for your family?
Have you tried to research this topic online but got overwhelmed by
the very large amount of information available?
Are you worried that some of this information may not be 100%
objective?
Do you wish there was just ONE document that could answer all of
your questions in one go, saving you hours of research?
If you have answered YES to any of these questions, then you must
read: It will help you understand if home schooling is right for you
and your family
(and if it is, it will help you to get started!)
For the first time ever...
A downloadable home school guide that gives you the full scoop,
including the pros and cons of home schooling, all the details needed
to make an informed decision on whether to home school, and a roadmap
for new Home Schooling . Written by a home schooling mother, this
e-Book is packed with information, links to free resources and real
life experiences.
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on your decision to
explore the option of home schooling!
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Alex Santoro-Emmerson
3RD JUNE 08
DEAR FELLOW PARENT,
Congratulations on your decision to explore the option of home
schooling!
Home schooling has been around since the beginning of time,
including after compulsory education laws were instated. Over the past
four decades the modern home schooling movement has grown tremen
dously, especially in the United States, the United Kingdom,
Australia, Canada and NewZealand.
According to the National Home Education Research Institute, an
estimated 1.9 to 2.4 million children in the United States alone were
home educated during 2005-2006.
Studies done in recent years show HOME SCHOOLED CHILDREN ARE
LEARNING MORE AND ARE GETTING HIGHER SCORES on the ACT and SAT tests
than their formally schooled peers. A study at Wheaton College in
Illinois showed that the freshmen that were home schooled for high
school scored fifty-eight points higher on their SAT scores than those
of kids that went to a public school.
ON AVERAGE, HOME SCHOOLED CHILDREN SCORES 81 POINTS HIGHER THAN THE
NATIONAL AVERAGE ON THE SAT SCORES.
Our history books and modern Halls of Fame are filled with leaders,
writers, inventors, humanitarians, artists, business tycoons,
activists, and more who were home schooled.
This is just a very small sampling of famous Home Schooling :
Albert Einstein
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Joan of Arc
Thomas Edison
General Patton
Walt Whitman
Benjamin Franklin
Charles Dickens
George Washington
Leonardo Da Vinci
William Blake
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Abraham Lincoln
Louis Armstrong
Orville
Andrew Carnegie
Charlie Chaplin
Wilbur Wright
Theodore Roosevelt
Whoopi Goldberg
Booker T. Washington
Florence Nightingale
Agatha Christie
And one of the most recent famous Home Schooling , Christopher
Paolini the best selling, young author of Eragon.
And some famous home schooling parents:
Will Smith
John Travolta
Robert Frost - Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
Len Munsil - attorney and President of The Center for Arizona
Policy (CAP)
Paul Overstreet - Musician, Songwriter
Kelly Preston - Actress
Mike Smith - Lawyer and co-founder of Home School Legal Defense
Association (HSLDA)
Lisa Whelchel - Actress / Author
Still, home schooling remains controversial, albeit not as much as
it was a few years ago. Perhaps home schooling sounds like a good idea
to you, but you're not quite sure
As far as I am concerned, whether you decide to home school or not,
taking the time to find the facts and learn what other Home Schooling
have to say, means you want the best for your children. And that makes
you my hero.
You want the best education possible for you child/children; you
will take the road less taken if it is the best one, and you aren't
going to make this decision overnight or based solely on what your
relatives, friends or school officials tell you to do.
Unfortunately the moment a parent mentions home schooling is being
considered, a deluge of advice frequently follows, mostly well
intended but often uninformed.
You may receive a great deal of advice from those who had never
home schooled and often based on one or more of these factors:
1. Fear of doing something untraditional and / or bias toward the
traditional school system.
2. Knowing of a single home schooling family who was not having a
good experience.
3. Knowing of a single home schooling family who is having a great
experience.
4. An isolated news story.
5. Personal agendas; e.g., "If you take your children out of school
and became a home school mom, then we won't have time for lunch dates
or tea nymore." or "If you home school like I am, we can share lessons
and help each other." Or from parents..."If she quits her job, they're
going to have money problems..."
Whether to home school or stick with traditional schooling is a very
personal choice and one only you and your family can make. If you're
like me, you are probably looking for solid information as well as
personal stories that will help you make the most informed decision
possible as this important matter...
I am proud to announce an e-Book that provides you with the pros and
cons of home schooling, including answers to all of the questions
listed above.
The author of the e-Book we are making available here, Kelly Wolf,
understands how struggling with this decision feels, especially when
you aren't able to find the information you need. Kelly too was
bombarded with all sorts of well-intended but misinformed advice. So
being the smart mum that she is, Kelly embarked on a journey of
serious research.
Determined to understand home schooling and its ramifications, Kelly
joined online homeschooling groups and asked lots of questions. She
relentlessly dug up facts from studies on the pros and cons of home
schooling, reading the complete studies, not just the statistics
because as we all know statistics can lie. She read books about
homeschooling, especially those written by famous education reformist
John Holt. She read up on the laws that regulate home schooling.
You may be a parent who knows intuitively that Home Schooling is
right for your family. Or you may be more like our author, Kelly,
preferring to weight the pros and cons, not willing to dive in without
understanding what's below the surface of the waters.
Home Schooling : The Pros & Cons outlines the pros and cons of Home
Schooling & answers burning questions, such as:
What does it mean to home school?
What are the benefits?
What are the requirements for Home Schooling ?
Can learning disabled children be home schooled successfully?
Can home schooled children use public school resources?
How do I find out about specific Home Schooling laws where I live?
What kind of resources and materials do I need? What about
curriculum?
How will I know my child is learning?
What if my child wants/needs to learn something I can't teach?
How will I know if my child is keeping up?
What about socialization?
In my attempt to shelter my children from the negatives of an
institutional school, will I be overprotecting
them
Will they be able to handle jobs in the real world?
Can they go to college/university? A good one?
Being the sharp researcher that our author is, Kelly found her
answers. She made her decision. And seven years later, she and her
daughter are still happily Home Schooling .
Seeing this Home Schooling mother's love for her child and her
research and organizational skills, I asked Kelly to write this book.
And I asked her to write it for those, like I was, drawn to Home
Schooling but still on the fence.
So she gathered up her research and sources, found new sources,
updated her notes and added to them, and put all this together in one
tidy and very
helpful e-Book
As the publisher, I too am a mum. I have two beautiful, intelligent
and precocious 3-year-old boys. I had been thinking ahead to their
school years and considering Home Schooling . But after a few days of
research (before finding our author)...
I was discouraged at the amount of time it was taking me to find
just
a small fraction of what I needed.
As you may already have found out, you can spend a lot of time on a
Home Schooling site and then realize you won't find the information
you need because the site is dedicated to a particular Home Schooling
method or lifestyle. Or the site is so biased towards or against
traditional schooling that you can't get a good grasp of the both the
pros and cons.
What you need a well-researched and objective view of the subject,
not just someone else's opinion.
In fact, I couldn't find one e-Book that provided the information
that parents most often seek when trying to make this decision.
This is the only eBook I have found to date that gives you a
well-rounded scoop on Home Schooling with all the pertinent details,
and is not trying to make you pick one way or another.
We are not here to tell you that you should home school.
We are not here to tell you that you shouldn't home school.
We are here because we understand what it's like to be struggling to
make the decision and wanting all our questions answered in one easy
read.
This book arms you with knowledge in all of the following areas, and
then gives you the how-to and resource links to implement, should you
decide to home school. Here is a sampling of the topics covered, all
well researched and written by a veteran Home Schooling parent:
Pros and Cons of Home Schooling
Pros and Cons of Institutional Schools
Home School Laws and Regulations around the World
How to Assess your Child's Learning Style
The Role Your Child's Learning Style Plays in Home Schooling
Home Schooling Special Needs Children
How to Deal with Objections
Parenting and Family Issues of Home Schooling
Josh and Luca write their names for the first time (January 2008, 2
years & 9 months!)
Why you don't need a degree to teach your own (Did you know that
some of the best private schools are staffed with teachers without
education degrees and teaching certificates?) and what you can do when
your child
Religious Issues (About 33 percent parents who home school do so
for religious regions).
Teaching methods most often used in Home Schooling , from
traditional curriculum based methods to John Holt's unschooling, and
information you need to decide which one is right for you/if Home
Schooling is right for you
The "S" Word - How will they ever socialize ???!!!
How to Prepare your Home schooled Child for College /University.
Resources - A complete and organized list of resources with links
to information helping you make your deci sion and implement Home
Schooling in your home, should you decide to do so.
If you have any questions or need help ordering or downloading,
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SINCERELY,
If you are on the fence about home schooling, what better way to
spend the cost of a fast food meal for the kids (and do a lot more
good for them) than to invest in a guide that will help you make the
right decision about their education?
Should you decide to home school, this e-Book will give you a
roadmap to help you navigate the twists and turns of legalities and
the varying methods and curriculums.
Do you like the idea of home schooling but feel you don't know
enough about the subject to make an informed decision. "What are the
implications?" "Can I really do it?" Etc. We provide the answers to
these questions so that you are better able to make the right decision
for you and your family.
This ebook gives you:
Information to make an informed decision and the best decision for
you and your children.
The peace of mind that you have done the research before making
such an important decision about your children's future.
The ability to plan ahead, because of the information you now
have.
The resources and roadmap to start home schooling, if you so wish.
Resources - A complete and organized list of resources with links
to information helping you make your deci sion and implement Home
Schooling in your home, should you decide to do so.
In summary, Home Schooling: The Pros & Cons is packed with
information, links to resources, real life experiences...and it is
written by a home school mum based in the United States who includes
home school resources around the world.
Whether you live in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. Australia, New
Zealand or another country, this book will open the door for you to
the world of home schooling.
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