Last week’s election shows our country is divided along idealogical lines. Can homeschooling help increase the number of Americans holding to family values?
Homeschooling is becoming more mainstream and the stigma that surrounded homeschooling over the years is fading, causing many Millennials to reconsider homeschooling as a viable option for their family.
No longer are only the conservative, religious right choosing to homeschool. In fact, 91% of homeschool families choose to homeschool for reasons other than religious.
According to the U.S. Department of Education, over the past decade there has been a 61.8% increase in the number of American children between of ages of 5-17 who are homeschooled. Overall, 3.4 percent of all students are being homeschooled today and the number is steadily rising.
Characteristically, homeschool students are more civically engaged, religious, family oriented and are known for being critical thinkers. Could homeschooling revive family values? Supporters say homeschooling puts parents back in the driver seat of their Children’s Education and Worldview
Blogger Jennifer Murff says children in public schools will learn what they live, reflect what they see and think the way they are taught and she calls that dangerous.
She says “It’s not the teachers fault but rather a system that has no conscience or esteem for the input of the parent.
Instead government schools push a “pump and dump” educational model that has abandoned critical thinking and reasoning skills.