Are Homeschooled Kids at a Disadvantage?

Are Homeschooled Kids at a Disadvantage?

Each year more than a million children are homeschooled in the United States, and that number is steadily growing. While some parents believe homeschooling is an ideal situation, others fear that a student's education can be severely hindered in such an environment. When making a decision about your child's education, which is the more reasonable school of thought?

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  • Hope7
    Im fairly new at it too. This is what I did my first year.

    We spent thirty minutes on 6-8 subjects per day leaving a nice chunk of the day for just being together etc. It fluctuated due to music lessons once per week and pe, which was going to the gym, or doing our weight training exercises from a licensed trainer, lady from our church gave me a list after evaluating our personal body needs. I got my materials on line from places like sonlight curriculum, local school supply store, paperbackswap, and from book sales at public library, and other moms. So my teaching is very eclectic. ( spelling not my strong suit). I hope to encorporate more science next year.
    1. Bible
    2. Spelling-sonlight book
    3. Music practice daily and lessons once per week
    4. Language Arts-sonlight book
    5. Math-from local school supply store
    6 Writing ( not every day)
    7. PE
    8. Community Service ( not daily) I used this as Civic duty lesson
    9. Art work-Walmart craft section ( not daily)
    10. Reading- variety of places, mostly library rentals

    - Hope7US July 2, 2009 11:46AM

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