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There are as many
reasons families choose to homeschool as there are types of people.
Religious Concerns
Behavior/Social Problems
Learning differences
Peer Pressure/ Bad
Influences
Quality Time with Children
Many families long for a closer relationship with their children.
Homeschooling helps parents to “bring them up in the way they should go”.
Academic Excellence
According to the
Washington
Homeschool Research Project, which has analyzed the SAT scores of
homeschooled children in Washington State since 1985, homeschooled children
test above average, regardless of income, race or parent's level of
education.
Another significant achievement of homeschooled children is that the
National Merit Scholarship Corporation has chosen a significant number of
homeschooled high school seniors as semifinalists.
"The most potent
force for change... is the growing recognition of millions of adults that
their own impoverished expectations and frustrations came, in large measure,
from their schooling."
~ Marilyn Ferguson, "The Aquarian
Conspiracy"
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