Why is there so much home schooling?

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.

Interestingly in the UK they use Cervarix instead. Which boys aren't administered. Also parental permission must be given here.

*It's a cheaper substitute I should also add.

Yeeeah, Agenda 21 doesn't scare me, nor does a national curriculum. I think both are fantastic aims and both are already in play where I live.

I home schooled my son for about a year and a half. It had absolutely nothing to do with religious issues, or school curricula. In a nutshell, it was down to his extra curricular life taking over everything. He was/is a young ballet dancer and was at a stage in his training where it was becoming necessary to have male teachers and other boys to study dance with. Because of where we were living at the time, this meant a LOT of driving to make that happen on a regular basis, so something had to give. After many discussions and a whole lot of schedule juggling, we decided to try home schooling and driving inordinate amounts to a more suitable ballet school in the big city. It made everyone nuts, including my son. He did very well academically during that period, but really missed the social aspects of school. We tried home schooler group classes/activities, but it didn't really make up for being away from school (for him), and for the most part, he didn't relate in any way to the home schooled kids he met. He left home for a residential ballet school at age 13, and that was that. He was much happier in that sort of a setting where he had academics and his dance all neatly put together for him, and as parents, we were very happy for him, and also relieved that we could resume a somewhat normal existence.

But outside of the classroom, look online of just how many people are up in arms about the Common Core Standards and why. It goes much deeper than what you have discussed; and it is and will be tied into the UN Agenda 21. Look it up. It is already here and is being used in many communities already. It will change our communities as we know it. Here is a link if you are interested:
http://www.thebrennerbrief.com/2013/06/03/common-core-based-on-un-education-program-and-agenda-21/

For anyone who hasn't clicked that link please allow me to summarize....

- Common Core is bad because Obama
- Common Core is bad because Bill Gates
- Common Core is bad because it teaches equity, economy and environment
- Common Core is bad because department of education is teaching stuff
- Common Core is bad because the United Nations

Basically Common Core and Agenda 21 are an evil left wing socialist communist nazi plot to take over the world, enslave us all, and permanently ban all pictures of kittens with "I can haz cheezburger" captions on them.

That's about as far as I got before I realized the piece had thoroughly discredited itself.

And I might add, the idea of a common core, common ground with all of humanity is ideal. We are all human beings and should learn that our humanity transcends country, creed, race, and any divisor we choose to put on ourselves.

Let`s find out exactly what common core is, I have never heard of it.

I am confused. It seems you say you agree with Common Core.... Then you say you have never heard of it.

I don't know much about Common Core; I have been homeschooling for 13 years and have no need to keep up with what new thing the public schools are doing this year (as it seems to change every few years). I thought it had to do with all kids learning the same level things the same way. Stuff like: Getting math answers marked wrong, even though they are correct answers because they didn't use the method the teacher taught... That sort of thing. But like I said, I am no longer in the loop. 2/3 of my unschooled brood are in college now.

There's no way I would let my children go to a public US school.
I guess if I wanted them to be a macaroni artist I would consider it, however.

Do you have kids? If so do you home school? Do you live in the US? If not where?

And I might add, the idea of a common core, common ground with all of humanity is ideal. We are all human beings and should learn that our humanity transcends country, creed, race, and any divisor we choose to put on ourselves.

Let`s find out exactly what common core is, I have never heard of it.

I am confused. It seems you say you agree with Common Core.... Then you say you have never heard of it.

I don't know much about Common Core; I have been homeschooling for 13 years and have no need to keep up with what new thing the public schools are doing this year (as it seems to change every few years). I thought it had to do with all kids learning the same level things the same way. Stuff like: Getting math answers marked wrong, even though they are correct answers because they didn't use the method the teacher taught... That sort of thing. But like I said, I am no longer in the loop. 2/3 of my unschooled brood are in college now.

UGH! I hated when a teach did that! I am dyslexic with math and would get the answer right but not do it the way the teacher wanted and she would mark it wrong! I remember getting a detention for being very rude and telling her that it was sad she marked it wrong just because I didn't do it HER WAY!

I was homeschooled for a few years in high school, and I'm so thankful that I got home schooled. Homeschooling gives kids a chance to get one on one attention, and the bad influences from school don't affect them as much when they are home schooled.
I have a lot of friends who were or are home schooled and some who have always been to school, and I can see a difference between them.
A lot of people think that children who are home schooled don't have life skills or aren't as social or as smart as children who go to school, but there are co ops that children can go to and have fun with other home school-er

Ok, so I have read a lot of posts and have to jump in. I am a mom of 6, ages 14-23 yrs old. I home schooled them all from k-12th grades. I had some that were very advanced, some that were right in the middle and one that really struggled through almost all school. I am not saying that it is the right thing for everyone, but it was for sure the right thing for our family, and the best thing for my kids.

As far as socialization, that is a bunch of garbage! Obviously with 6 kids in the house there was plenty of interaction with others on a daily basis. They were all active in Awana program, youth, choir, karate, park days, field trips, co ops(everything from scholastic to crafts, hobbies). They were out there in the community constantly interacting with others, while we did community projects and out reach projects to help others.

I have had 4 graduate from high school. 3 of them did Dual Enrollment at the Community College starting at age 16. None of them had any problem at all "fitting in" at the college level. Quite the opposite, they were leaders in their classes, with their papers being used on the website as guides for how to do the work expected in college. My oldest graduated Community College 1 yr after graduating High school, then went on to graduate with a degree in Psychology 2 yrs later. My next one graduated at 17 and is currently a junior in college. I currently have 9th and 11th grade students at home this year. My 11th grader is starting Dual Enrollment in Jan.

Things have changed so much for home school families over the years. There are SO many different options for teaching them, You can find the right one that works for EACH child, and not try to make them fit into someone else's mold. There are book, computer, online, dvd classes, so many possibilities.

We live in Florida and I will say that the public schools here are horrible!! I know that they are many awesome teachers there but they have a very difficult time teaching when there is no discipline, and no desire for many of them to learn. Even in the Community college that my kids attended the Professors would ask in Comp, how many graduated from Public school, and one time when most were public school graduates, the teacher even stated out loud, "Oh, well I will know not to expect mus out of this class then". Sad but even the College professors know that the public school is dropping the ball majorly.

While I do agree that there does need to be a public school system, I am very thankful that mine have not had to be a part of that system. As their mom, I seriously doubt that even the best of teachers is going to care more about my kids and the education that they receive than "ME" , their mom. We as moms are educating/instructing/teaching them from the time they are born, we do not just all of a sudden become incapable of continuing once they reach school age.

We've homeschooled for our children's entire academic years. Our oldest child is 18 and is a junior in engineering at MIT. When that acceptance letter arrived I wanted to enlarge it to billboard size and put it in my mother-in-law's front yard.

This is just awesome, all of it!!