I’ve been watching an interesting thread in the Time4Learning Parent’s Forum this week. The thread is called "Accidental Homeschooler," and the parents involved in the thread have been venting about the dilemma they are faced with.
It seems that the school system their children have been enrolled in has failed them in one way or another. Either their child wasn’t learning enough, had special needs that the school system wasn’t adequately addressing, or had grades so low it was affecting the child’s self esteem.
As a parent whose hard-earned tax-dollars are funding the schools, this can be an incredibly frustrating experience. No one expects perfection out of the public school system, but they do expect that their child will be adequately prepared and educated. They expect teachers and resource workers to be adaptive to children’s particular learning needs. And they expect that when a child is failing, that every effort will be made to bring him or her back up to grade level.
When these expectations aren’t met, some parents consider a whole other alternative - - homeschooling. These "accidental homeschoolers" had not started out with a plan to homeschool, but because of the failures of the school system, decided to see if homeschooling would be a better choice for their child.
The parents in the forum thread I’ve been following have decided to try out the Time4learning online homeschool curriculum for their child because it better meets their child’s learning needs. Time4Learning is:
- Standards-based
- Engaging and Interactive
- Affordable
- Easy-To-Use (especially for first time homeschoolers)
- Adaptable for use with both special needs and gifted learners
If your child’s school system is not meeting his or her needs, and you are thinking of schooling your child at home, then click here to download our free Welcome to Homeschooling guide for new homeschoolers. Who knows…maybe YOU will be the next person to join the forum thread to tell the story of how you became an "accidental homeschooler."
Posted under Homeschool, Special Needs Learning, homeschool curriculum, homeschooling manual, new homeschoolers, problems at school
This post was written by Kerry on October 22, 2008
