10 Reasons to Homeschool thru High School

1. Efficiency:
Many homeschoolers complete standard high school academics eighteen to twenty-four months, very quickly compared to the four years most high schools take. Using self-instructional materials, they chose, and learning in ways that make sense to them, most teens can cut the time for traditional high school by half.

2. Head Start on College:
Homeschooled teenagers often take college classes to supplement high school homeschooling.

3. Self-Directed Learning:
The absence of experts in the home promotes autonomy and self-directed learning. Most homeschooled teenagers not only learn to teach themselves, they also become expert networkers.

4. Travel:
Freedom from the teaching constraints of school allows homeschoolers to take advantage of travel opportunities whenever they present themselves.

5. Work Experience:
Teenage homeschoolers have time for volunteer and paying jobs. Often they get better jobs than those who attend school simply because they are available during school hours.

6. Time:
Homeschoolers not only have more hours each day for creative endeavors and learning activities; they also have more time to be alone, to think, to daydream – to develop a private self and a personal identity.

7. Family Closeness:
In contrast to many adolescents who pull away from their families, homeschooling parents almost universally report that their teenagers grow closer to all family members.

8. Limited Peer Pressure:
Removed from the near-constant peer pressure in schools, most homeschooled teens develop mature manners and values.

9. Saving Money:
Both parents and teenagers may earn money while homeschooling, making home education less expensive than attendance at a public school where average yearly costs for extracurricular activities can exceed $500 per year.

10. Fun:
Homeschooling teens is fun for parents, who – in the light of their life experience – enjoy learning all the math and history and foreign language they missed the first time around.