I Want My Child Out of the Public Schools!
What are they really learning there? Are they Safe?
If both parents work and your child is not old enough to stay at home alone, do you have a neighbor or relative that would sit with your child during the day? Or could your child(ren) stay with that person during the day while you are away? Could you work from your home? Could you change your work hours to be home with your children, maybe work part-time or one parent work a third shift? Do you have an older child that could stay and help with the younger ones?
There are alternatives. You have a choice. You do not have to "settle" for the public school's welfare system!
We have to look back nearly 100 years ago to find our country's most highly educated scholars. Most of which received 10 years or less of "schooling". Most were self-educated and self-taught. When our country's level of education was at its highest, there was no fluff or filler. The curricula consisted of Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. More money, more time, and more resources are not helping our children's education. In fact, they present a hinderance and our statistics prove it. The public schools are a government welfare system with an agenda. Tossing more money and resources into the problem is simply not helping in the least.
Home Schooling--- a word to most that immediately invokes the thoughts, "I can't do that," "I'm not a teacher," "I wouldn't know where to start," "I don't want to be responsible or in charge of my children's education."
1. YOU CAN DO IT. You have the right by law in the US. You are qualified. No one cares more about your children's education than you do as their parent.
2. YOU ARE a teacher. As a parent, you are continually teaching and training your children already.
3. YOU START where your child is. It IS that easy. For starters, you have them read and write more than is required by the public school system. You gradually turn over the responsibility of their education over to your child. You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink it. They must be motivated about their own education before the public school zaps it out of them completely. The sooner you rescue your child, the better!
4. Are you responsible or in charge of the atmosphere your child is exposed to among 30+ ill-mannered children in today's immoral society? Is that the "socialization" you were thinking of when you were convinced into believing that public schools were good for your children?
If your children are not a priority in your life, then leave them where they are and surf on past this article. Some people's priorities include "things" for their children instead of "time" with their children. It is not difficult to sell the second car, the vacation home, downsize to a smaller house ... if that is what's required to be at home more with your children.
In today's world, our children are learning more about how to become a terriorist, surf on myspace, and more about pornography than they are learning how to become productive, successful and educated adults.
It is not necessary to spend lots of money on a curriculum package for your children. Just like in searching for a new home, the market is flooded with all kinds and not every one is a good fit for your family. The best choice is always one that is adjustable to your children's needs, instead of the public school's methods of adjusting your child to fit their program, their schedule and the government's agenda, choose a program that is flexible and will allow your child to advance above their peers, while also adjust to allow more time on areas they have have more trouble with.
If you have the time and a massive computer and are computer savvy enough, you can search the internet and collect, harvest and download for free everything you need to adequately educate your child without having to buy anything. We have a wealth of resources available to us today via the internet. However it can be confusing, overload and overkill. Too much of ANY thing, even good things is never good. Remember to focus on quality and not quantity. Try to remove any mindset of "this is how to do school"-- which merely brings the public school's methods home.
We homeschooled and graduated both of our now grown children. We tried almost every homeschool program. We started with the most common, ABeka, which is very costly, it replicates the public school's methods while adding in bias religion where it can. We graduated from the "smorgasboard" idea of a little of this and that-- hand selected materials, to a more complete and well-rounded program called the A2. The A2 provides a wonderful framework with more resources that we really need. The choices are of a higher quality, classical approach than most others. You can choose to supplement, things like religion and/or Art as you like or you can stick to the basic 3-R's---reading, writing and arithmetic. The "framework" of the A2 is the setup of materials by grade level. For only $99, with everything on one CD, there is not a better quality product on the market. It is amazing the materials and resources it contains and we only need buy it once, not every year and not one for each of our children. Order your A2 FREE DEMO today. But whether you choose the A2 or any other program, be encouraged that you and your children do not have to "settle" for any vile or offensive thing this world has to offer. The public schools of today are quite offensive and dangerous. It is heart breaking to think of what all our children are exposed to every day and what it is that they are actually learning. Please consider rescuing your children today! You can easily improve your children's education at home!
Please let us know if we can help you. We are members of a wonderful support group for home educators. Feel free to join us. You can lerk, browse previous email messages and jump in and ask questions if you like. It is a very warm and supportive group. Click to join ----RC_A2 support group. To read the homeschool laws in the state you live, click on www.hslda.org The Home School Legal Defense and on there click on your state in the top right country in the map of the US. Browse our Articles Directory for more helpful ideas in educating and raising children in today's world.
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