Homeschooling is Setting Higher Standards
By Mimi Rothschild
The teaching profession is one that carries much responsibility. Conversely, homeschooling children has myriad rewards for parents who choose to teach their children. In public schools, teachers are expected to balance preparing children for college and the work force and ensuring that parents are not burdened by having to teach their children. Furthermore, when children fail, all of the blame is placed upon the teacher not the parent, or the system. Alternatively, parents should feel responsible for their children’s education and make every effort to assist their children. Homeschooling children is one way that parents can ensure that their children will get the education they deserve.
Children in the U.S. are not challenged to achieve their full potential and those Americans homeschooling their children will find that their child will excel in concepts that many students attending public schools may not. In public schools, teachers are afraid of being scolded for setting high expectations for their students. There is no other profession where an employer would be looked down for raising the standards for their subordinates. Conversely, parents naturally have high expectations of their children and they can easily employ such expectations into a homeschooling curriculum.
The American education system only begins to set higher standards when they feel threatened by another nation’s accomplishments. Why should parents wait for their children to be exposed to an excellent education? Homeschooling children will ensure that children receive a quality education. In public schools, programs are implemented to help American’s achieve or supercede the same accomplishment, only when competition is felt. For example, head start and Dr. Seuss were implemented after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik into orbit. Americans wanted to know why they had not achieved the same success. The system has already failed the children. By homeschooling your children you will guarantee the success of your children and your children will not experience the failures that the rest of the nation experiences time and time again.
Parents should not be afraid to challenge their children who are homeschooled. They shoud not hinder their children because of fear of becoming overburdened with more responsibility in helping their children. Parents can raise the standards that they set for their children. Then, their children will be able to compete not just on a national level, but on a global one. Students should be expected to know not only how to read and write, but also how to improve and create new technology that will advance society. Finally, parents should not be afraid to implement physics and calculus into the homeschool curriculum. By creating an intense homeschooling curriculum, parents will help their children fulfill their potential.
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