Homeschooling In The United States

The percent of children receiving their education at home has increased since the 1960’s. However, during the course of history, children have been schooled at home. Yet with the industrial revolution homeschooling declined. The reason for the resurgence was the social and political activism of the 60’s. The desegregation of schools, the removal of prayer, and book’s like How Children Fail, by John Holt, blaming public schools for not educating children (Cook, Lane, Mataras, 2013).
A second resurgence in homeschooling happed in the 1990’s with it legal in every state. Although, all K-12 programs must be approved by the state and they may make decisions about how they support homeschool children with disabilities. The Supreme Court upheld the Nevada school system’s denial of services for a homeschool child, while, states such as
While, many main reasons maybe religious perspectives, better instruction, individualization attention or philosophical differences with public education they may not be the only. Parents may choose the set of courses, the pace of instruction and the daily routine (Cook, Lane, Mataras, 2013). Set of courses can be geared to if the student is blind, deaf, has epilepsy or has no arms. The pace of instruction allows the parent to stay with a subject to the student knows it, weather it is one hour or one month. The daily routine allows the parents to consider for example speech or physical therapy that may be provided by a professional.
There can be many challenges to homeschooling one’s child(ren). They can lack emotional, social, and moral support from outside sources. This can leave the parents feeling overwhelmed with sadness and frustration (Cook, Lane, Mataras, 2013). A big part of this is that educators tend to have a negative view of homeschooling. For example, administrators may rather that parents keep their child in the school and work to resolve problems.
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