Why is there so much home schooling?

Just to add an alternative point of view here. I have been a public school teacher for 38 years. I have taught high school and middle school, grades 7-12. I have taught English, a Reading, French, Journalism, Study Skills. I have had gifted kids, honors kids, remedial kids, special needs kids. Yes, I can meet the needs of 12-old ADHD boys. I have sponsored reading clubs, knitting clubs, creative writing clubs. I've put on school dances, published the yearbook, made crepes in the home ec room with two dozen kids. I've driven a van full of kids to workshops and taken 35 kids to Paris. My colleagues and I are passionate, well-trained and competent.

Among many reasons to attend public school is the opportunity to learn from many different teachers who are trained and passionate about that subject. That is what I wanted my own daughters to have. They are products of public education and they are now well-educated, successful adults.

As far as safety, you are safer in a public school than almost anywhere, certainly safer than you are in a vehicle on a public road.

Don't believe all the fear-mongering about the dismal state of public education. Come and visit, any time.

I hate having my kids in the public school system, however, I do not feel i am equipped to homeschool 5 children, and fear I would be setting them up for failure. That being said, I am currently homeschooling my oldest daughter, who is 15, as a discapline for her. See, she is a social butterfly, going to school for her is fun, she is popular, friends with everyone, all the boys like her, and she views it as a social event. Fine, fine... But, she broke i big rule this summer, and so her discapline was no school for this year... its driving her insane, and having me as her teacher, is driving her even more insane... Win win for me... Just kidding, but seriously, I am using this as a discapline for her, and once this year is over, I will stop homeschooling her, and send her back to school.

I don't think you all know anything about the Common Core Standards. Now that I have had 60 hours of training, I can tell you that it will not mean that kids will sit in school and take classes on a computer. Mostly, it means an emphasis in argumentative and expository writing, close textual reading, and more reading of informational text.

That is also my main reason, besides what we went through with our daughter's bullying. I want her to learn at her own pace and not get a book that has been rewritten. The new curriculum coming in, will teach them that they belong to the community, or global citizenship. They do not belong to their parents. History will be rewritten, specifically about the USA. No pilgrims at Thanksgiving, no celebration of Christmas; the undermining of religious beliefs. I just want them to learn and keep the Govt politics out of it.
Melba

My two oldest children attended public school for many years. My oldest son was considered to be in 7th grade Special Ed classes while my daughter (a year younger) was in regular classes. They decided he should skip 6th grade to "be with other kids his own age". We had him held back in 1st grade because he wasn't on grade level with the other kids. After my son dealt with the PE teacher bullying him in front of other kids and being jumped in the boys bathroom by two boys whose parents were "important assets to the community", I decided I had had enough of them going to school to get bullied and beat up instead of being educated. My daughter was in a 6th grade math class with a teacher who watched soap operas and burned scented candles instead of teaching the students. I was having to teach her math every day after school anyway, so I decided to make it official. After pulling them both out of public school, we found that my son had been doing coloring sheets in his "Special Ed" classes instead of actually being helped with the subjects he was struggling with. He never had homework and never read in front of us. I pulled them out in December and realized that my son couldn't even read, tell time, nothing. I taught him to read, write, do math, tell time, etc. He finally got on the same level with my daughter, and I was able to teach them both on the same grade level from then on. He graduated at the age of 17 with a 3.75 GPA, and my daughter graduated at the age of 15 with a 3.95 GPA. She started college that fall to earn a degree in Homicide Investigation.

While homeschooling my oldest two children, I started my youngest out homeschooling when he was 4. He's now 13, and in the 9th grade. He's big time into 4-H with archery and the shooting range and plays baseball. He's working towards an advance degree for graduation. We are Christians, but with our homeschool group, you don't have to be any certain type of religion. I like knowing that my child has learned (and is learning) instead of coloring or being bullied by other kids his age (or teachers), and knowing that he never has to be scared of someone shooting, stabbing, or blowing him up inside a public school building. Homeschooling isn't for everyone though. You have to have a lot of patience and understanding to deal with teaching your child (or children) every day.

Another good reason to home school.

What can the govt schools do? Forced vaccinations, for one and against parental knowledge. Pushing flu vaccines and pushing the Gardisal vaccine now, on both boys and girls. Girls have passed out, and one girl died right after the shot; and her parents did not have knowledge that it was being done at the school. Their agenda.