In my last few posts, I wrote a bit about the history of Education and how homeschooling can take education back to its roots, in Homeschooling: Back to Education. I also wrote about how the Industrial Revolution shaped education in Education and the Industrial Revolution. My last post, How education Restricts Homeschooling, hints that homeschoolers are still restricted by modern education for the most part. I am ending this series by talking about how homeschooling could potentially change education.
In part one of Can Homeschoolers Change Public Education, I wrote about that fact that I must first take the time I need to educate my own children in the time that I have before turning my attention to working in or with schools to some capacity. I see myself as an advocate for education reform when my tenure as a homeschooling mom is finished.
Meanwhile, I do believe that just by homeschooling our own children, homeschooling families are changing public education. As the numbers of homeschoolers increase each, year, school systems are getting the message that business as usual will not be tolerated. By educating their own, homeschoolers are turning out students with different experiences and thought processes. Many of these homschooled adults are doing the same for their children. The homeschool movement is giving the phrase ‘school choice’ a completely new meaning.
Every day I read reports of new and innovative steps schools are taking to inspire and challenge children. It gives me hope that public education is indeed changing for the better. Whether people want to believe it or not, homeschoolers do have a hand in these changes.
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