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Clara - In the case of my sister's family, a lot of the learning is simply guided by the parents. The kids take the initiative. There are virtually limitless resources on the Internet now, including some universities who have nearly all their curriculum for free online. And not just some hokey no-name colleges, but Purdue, MIT, Utah State, Yale, UC Irvine, Oxford, etc. There are websites with free books like Project Gutenberg, and everyone now knows about Wikipedia. YouTube has hundreds of thousands of teaching videos. My sister doesn't speak Chinese or Spanish, but her daughter was motivated to learn both. My sister provided resources like books and computer programs that teach language, and provided opportunities for my niece to interact with people who speak those languages. You don't have to know a lot to guide your children to pursue their interests, and when it's interesting, they will learn.

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Comments: For me the big draw back with homeschooling is that there isn't a standard. When you go to a public or private institution you can evaluate what a child is being exposed to but at home you cannot evaluate the future adult in the same way. Let me give you an example. Let's say I'm hiring and I know someone went to ABC high school. If I'm aware of that high school I can determine their grades and the standing of the school. With homeschooling as an employer I can't make that determination.

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Nancy - Many employers give basic tests to determine an employee's eligibility. Just because someone went to ABC high school doesn't mean they did well, even if it's a good school. In fact, many employers know that people who have been homeschooled tend to think "outside the box" because they haven't been subjected to the public school tendency to "group think." Also, homeschooling tends to produce more mature young adults who perform better in college. It's an old and ridiculous stereotype that says homeschooled kids are underachievers or maladjusted.

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This is all really interesting. This isn't meant to be cute but what about things that others will talk about like prom night and varsity cheer leading. You want to be part of a group and school allows you to be in a team that seems to me to be something that homeschooling will not give.

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There are myriad homeschool groups that get together for all kinds of activities. We just went to a classical theater group production of "12th Night" last Saturday and it was fantastic! There are homeschool days at Disneyland, Sea World, and many museums.

What do homeschool kids miss out on? Bullying, foul language, kids disrespecting teachers, immorality, immodesty, inept teachers, bureaucracy, favoritism, fist fights, cliques, smoking, truancy, teen pregnancy, inappropriate sex education, s-xual harassment ... I could go on and on. The public school system isn't the be-all, end-all of education, and certainly not the greatest way for kids to learn how to behave as responsible adults.

What about prom? What I remember from my prom is kids snorting cocaine at their group tables, drinking alcohol to extreme excess, kids whose parents rented rooms for them in hotels where groups went together to get even more drunk and the couples all made out. And that was 30+ years ago, so you know it's worse now. My best friend's daughter got pregnant at one of those after-prom parties a few years ago, because some other mom decided to rent a hotel room for a half dozen kids, and then lied to the other parents about it - saying the girls were having a sleep over at her house.

How is that better than raising sensible kids to be sensible adults? Why are we exposing them to all of the ridiculous so-called rites of passage that have become the American norm? How many varsity cheerleaders were your friends? And why is that a desirable thing?

And, by the way, your public school is not allowed to provide a kid with sun screen or an aspirin, but the law will allow school personnel to give your daughter information on how to get birth control or an abortion without your consent or knowledge.

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The Homeschooled Kids and the Network Marketing Parent (Part I)
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Homeschooling gives you, the parents, the privilege and pleasure of saving money while you're at home with the kids. At the same time, however, you can make lots and lots of money from your network marketing business.
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Problem solving is a learned skill and can be enhanced in your home schooled learners. To develop this skill your home schooled learners have to see you as a role model who has effective problem solving skills. Life allows us to have a large array of choices. Some decisions are simple but others require more effort. Problem solving is a normal reaction for us. It becomes second nature when making decisions.
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Over the last few years, more parents are choosing home school for the same reason as Barnes. From 2007 to 2010, the number of home-schooled children nationwide rose by about 25 percent to the current estimate of 2 million. There are a number of reasons why parents are choosing this option, but one of the main reasons for this is because parents are unhappy with the quality of instruction at public schools, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Ref. Source 2