Pro Home Ed (Home Schooling versus Conventional Schools)

Member Name: Cinny91

Product:	Home Schooling versus Conventional Schools
Date:	28/11/08 (89 review reads)
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Advantages: a great education and a way to connect with your children.

Disadvantages: none

I was homeschooled from the age of 12 after being bullied in school. And in my last 4 years of schooling I met so many weird, lovely, amazing people I never thought I would.

Other reasons to homeschool your children are because the schools aren't 'as good as the used to be' or so to say. Loud students with no respect and teachers who just don't care or are outspoken.

I was very proud to say that instead of being confined to a school to read books on things the world was infact my whole school as in the years I was homeschooled I learnt so much more than I did in school.

As William Blake wrote in schoolboy 'How can the bird that is born for joy. Sit in a cage and sing?'

I have quite strong views on homeschooling, I'm more than prepared to homeschool my own children one day but if one day they were to turn around and say they wanted to go to school I wouldn't stop them.

I have such fond memories of being homeschooled. Going to stately homes in the summer and spending hours there, learning all the secrets of the home and walking around the gardens with my mum as she told me about the plants. In the winter I would read more and study harder with my maths and english. From the age of about 13 I started loving books more and more, wanting to read bigger books and the great thing about homeschooling is you have no boundaries.

My mother had the views that as long as I was 'up to date' with my maths and english I could pick my own 'lessons' after that. I remember many lazy summer afternoons in my garden after my maths and english reading books until I was called in for tea. Which sounds more like a 20s/30s style childhood than a 21st century one, which I am very grateful for.

To socialise I went to home-ed groups. It was great to meet kids that had been homeschooled for ever - they were all quite grown-up and most were really well spoken to say they are 8 / 10 - and most of these had parents who just let them learn as they wanted to, which sempt alien to me.

A woman from the LEA would come once a year to view my progress and was always impressed with the amount of work we did and the quality. After we finished schooling she did comment on how it was nice to have a family where she actually had too much work to mark on her sheet.

Speeding on now, even though I left 'school' with no qualifications I'm in my late teens and an office admin. I have a great boyfriend and I'm still in my tight knit family proving that just because you're homeschooled, it's doesn't mean you won't go on in life perfectly. As most of my teachers told my old school friends when questioned how i'd 'never get a job.'


One thing I'm proud to hear is when my mum says taking me out of school was the best thing she ever did.

If your child isn't enjoying school, isn't progessing, is getting bullied, please do not rule out this option. You won't regret it I promise. You don't need to be an Einstein and you don't need mass amounts of money to home ed.

Summary: Don't write Home-Ed kids off.