Life Education And Resource Network
Why Homeschool?
There are a lot of reasons that people homeschool. Here is a collection of articles discussing a few of those reasons. You want more reasons? Talk to some of LEARN's families at Park Day.
| Declaration of Educational Independence. Guess what famous document this is a parody of! |
| Ten Most Important Things to Know About Homeschooling. |
| 53 reasons to homeschool. Results of an on-line survey by the National Home Education Network. |
| John Taylor Gatto and the Odysseus Group have a thought-provoking website and resources on reclaiming education within the family. They take as their hero Odysseus "who was healthy, strong, famous, brilliant, and could have become immortal and be waited upon by beautiful demi-goddesses, but he chucked it all to go back home to his wife and kid." For other essays by John Taylor Gatto, see this page of links. An interview with Gatto and people who knew him when he was a teacher is here and includes other resources at the end of the page. |
| Interview with John Holt. Originally published in THE MOTHER EARTH NEWS in 1980, this interview gives the overall philosophy of one of homeschooling's earliest advocates. For more by and about Holt, see the Monroe County Public Library collection and Growing Without Schooling, the newsletter he started, and another 1980 article, from Mothering magazine. |
| A long article about "socialization" in home schools as compared to conventional schools. Worth reading--especially the vignette near the end about meeting an artist at a museum. |
| From National Home Education Network: "Ten Good Reasons to Homeschool" is written by a homeschooling father. Also check out "Reasons to Homeschool", which is the results of a survey in which homeschoolers gave over 50 reasons why they decided to start homeschooling. |