Meeting a Homeschool Student Needs
The flexibility that homeschooling offers each family, is that it creates an opportunity to change your family’s lifestyle for the best . It feels great to be noticed and praised for a job well done. It’s comforting to know there is someone there to help you when assignments get difficult. All those little things that build up a child’s confidence on learning tend to get lost in crowded classrooms and as a result children loose their spark to learn.
When people learn that Kathleen Ford of Erie home-schools her 6-year-old son, the question that follows, she said, is usually “What church do you go to?” And while religion is one of the top motivations for those who educate their children, the reasons are as diverse as the households that home-school.
A 2003 federal survey showed a variety of reasons why people choose to home-school, including concerns about safety, drugs and peer pressure in other schools; dissatisfaction with academic instruction at other schools; religious or moral training; a child’s physical or mental health issue or other special needs; or a child’s request to be home-schooled.
Four area parents share their stories about how and why they home-school.
Finding the spark.