August 01, 2005

25 Reasons to Homeschool

Christopher Smith, a homeschooling parent, writes in the Tennessee Leaf-Chronicle about his top 25 reasons why he homeschools his kids. It's a great list - good reasons combined with good humor.

Their situation:

...we're not just outside the public school norm. We're also outside the homeschool norm. Most homeschoolers around here homeschool for religious reasons — they're flat out tired of arguing with government bureaucracies about their faith.

That's not us either. Yeah, we're Christians, but that's not primarily why we homeschool.

Some of my favorite reasons:

1.No one, and I mean no one, has the right to teach my son how to square dance.
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4.Waffle Stix, despite their standing on school lunch menus, are not food.
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8.I believe spelling, grammar and math have rules.
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16.We have religious objections to waking up before dawn.
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21.Socialization is overrated. If the socialization you get in public schools is so gosh-awful important, how did modern humanity survive its first 4,850 years without it?
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24.It's not necessary to have sheriff's deputies roaming the hallways of my home.

Posted by Tom Nugent at August 1, 2005 01:47 PM
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