Do Home Education Courses Really Work?

The question of how successful home education courses are is one that has been around since parents first started to doubt the value of mass education. Classrooms are not always the best place to educate children who are of school age. Home education is an option that more and more families are considering these days and the reasons are plentiful.

Children with learning problems who need extra help are getting better results from a home education program than when put in special education where they are all treated as if they have the same problems, when they don’t. Often a child with ADD, attention deficit disorder, finds home education beneficial, as there are fewer distractions. The one on one aspect of home education is also beneficial to children, as some can get lost among a group of thirty students especially the quieter students.

Home education can also be of benefit to a child who is deemed to be brighter than average. Enrichment classes are a thing of the past in many school systems where shortages of teachers and money tie their hands in offering more intellectually challenging classes to a small number of brighter than average students. Yet, this is something that can easily be done with home education. You can easily design a program to simulate that child more than a classroom situation ever could.

There are very few drawbacks to a home education program. One of them is that there are no people the age of your child for social interaction. If you are teaching only one student in your home education program this makes it more difficult for your child to interact with their peers. Involving your child in neighborhood sports program can rectify this problem. Home education is a viable alternative to a public school for many children. Don’t let those who might not understand your choose tell you differently.