{"id":818,"date":"2024-10-07T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T09:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classicalconversations.com\/blog\/things-homeschooling-is-good-at-benefits-of-homeschooling\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T12:56:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T12:56:23","slug":"is-homeschooling-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalconversations.com\/blog\/is-homeschooling-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Homeschooling Worth It? A Testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Is homeschooling worth it? To answer that question, I\u2019ll share my story, and you can judge whether or not homeschooling is right for you.<\/p>\n

I was homeschooled until college<\/a>. As some of my friends reached high school, their parents put them into the state establishment but not mine. My high school years were everything I needed, and I even took the luxury of an extra year before leaving for college.<\/p>\n

Many parents feel a pressure to place children in public schools when they approach high school age. I think it has something to do with the accessibility of sports, programs, or even socialization. I can\u2019t speak to this decision or to the pressures that drive it because I\u2019m not a parent of a high school student. I can<\/em> say that I turned out fine.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the homeschooling benefits that twelve years provided me with.<\/p>\n

I am acquainted with many books.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I\u2019ve read many more books than would be assigned in typical school courses. This is not because I had extra brains for understanding them. This is because I was instilled with the drive to seek them out.<\/p>\n

Does a public-schooled child have the time to seek out as much extracurricular reading material as I did? Yes. However, in the environment of the public school, knowledge is a thing that is worked through to graduate or get a job. The system very subtly teaches the student that knowledge is a hurdle.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, when the parents administer knowledge, a child easily grasps that its purpose is the same as the gifts, the spankings, the medicine, the allowance, and the responsibilities also administered by parents\u2014that it is good<\/em> for him.<\/p>\n

When knowledge is dispensed by strangers, the student has not learned that knowledge is good for him, only that it is a requirement. Do not underestimate the depth in which this doctrine embeds itself in a child. When a student falls into the habit of looking to his syllabus to see what is required of him (instead of looking at the wide world to see what is available to him), he has ceased to be a learner.<\/p>\n

The home school is an environment where<\/strong> knowledge is to be loved as a parent is to be loved<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I am socially adaptable.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

As a kid in any gathering of state-educated peers who hadn\u2019t seen each other before (Boy Scouts, volunteer workers, new Bible study), I was always the first to extend my hand and break the awkward silence. It\u2019s not because I was gregarious. I had as many butterflies as anyone else, and what I said was usually dumb\u2014but it got people talking. It\u2019s because I felt like no one else would. This thought made me deeply uncomfortable as a child, and I wondered silently whether the other kids knew something I didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

As an adult, I am still struck by homeschooled kids\u2019 ability to break the ice in new situations\u2014even those who are quiet when in more familiar settings. But I\u2019ve now come to the belief that this is normal: that it isn\u2019t the ice-breaking that is taught to a child, but rather the ice\u2014the fear of putting oneself forward, the desire for someone else to speak first\u2014that is taught, subtly and relentlessly, by today\u2019s school environment.<\/p>\n

From the structure of public school, a child learns to associate first and foremost with his grade-level\/classroom\/clique. He learns that some people will hurt him. He learns that curriculum and procedure are handed down by principals and experts. Surely, to his receptive mind, \u201cregular\u201d people like himself and his parents are not qualified to take the initiative.<\/p>\n

The result: put most kids in America today in a situation where they feel out of place, and you can see the walls go up. Rather than risk talking to anyone, they will text on their phones, stick close to the one person they know, and wait for someone else to take the lead. This comes from feelings of fear and inadequacy.<\/p>\n

I do not wait, because<\/strong> I do not feel inadequate, and I attribute this to<\/strong> a thriving relationship with<\/strong> my mother, my first and best teacher<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I am thorough.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Growing up I felt, as I\u2019m sure many homeschooled children have, that other kids didn\u2019t care as much about getting the job done.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t their fault\u2014I had been carefully taught to value time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The home school is often a world where the student does not evaluate himself based on a grade. It is often consequently a world where \u201cgood enough\u201d isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

However, a child growing up in public school learns about time too. He sits still for many hours, under the tutelage of an adult he does not know, who is speaking on a subject the child may not care about. If he does not happen upon an educator, who teaches him to love the hour he spends with her, the value of time in his mind has been depreciated.<\/p>\n

I am filled with the love of knowledge and the blessings of home.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I paint in broad strokes because I have only experienced high school at home. Nevertheless, whether one learns at home for twelve years or transfers into state high school, the source of all these blessings is located in the home.<\/p>\n

Parents who send their students to public high school may well have forgotten about that sense of Home: the sense in which it is spelled with a capital H.<\/p>\n

Just as the imperfections of my own church do not nullify the authority of the institution of the Church, just as the imperfections of my own academy (college) experience do not nullify the blessings granted by the institution of the Academy, just as the imperfections in any marriage cannot be used as an example to undermine the sanctity of the institution of Marriage (though there are some who would argue), so, too, the imperfections of my own home could not nullify the blessings of living and growing within the institution of the Home.<\/p>\n

A student in state high school may well experience these blessings at his particular home, and he may even be blessed with skillful state-employed teachers who care about him.<\/p>\n

I have seen one young man excel in academics and even rise to student governmental office solely based on his aptitude for extemporaneous speech: an ability he had formerly picked up in Classical Conversations. Public school is not a place that destroys academic ambition. However, it is not a place which is able to teach it either, for only the Home, an institution governed by parents, not strangers, can do this.<\/p>\n

For me, it was during the high-school years that I most needed to be filled with love, the love of learning and the social confidence, which come from the Home. I had a staunch enough faith to survive in state high school, and I don\u2019t doubt that yours do\u2014rather I fear for a child spending eight hours a day divorced from the academic vigor and leadership which public school was never meant to provide.<\/p>\n

So, is homeschooling worth it? It certainly was for me. This whole essay can be summed up with Poor Richard\u2019s proverb (though he was speaking of a different form of poverty): \u201c\u2019Tis hard for an empty sack to stand upright.\u201d <\/strong>Homeschooling filled me with a love of learning, a love of books, a love of home. Homeschooling may be right for you, too.<\/p>\n

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For further reading, check out this graduate\u2019s perspective on the benefits of homeschooling<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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