I know homeschooling works for my family. All three of my children are well above grade level. Even if they weren’t, I still believe that it is the right decision for our family and can be the right decision for any other family who wants to take this educational journey. I don’t need evidence. . .but as I was searching. . .I found some.
Consider the following information:
* Homeschooled students out perform their public schooled counterparts by 30 to 37 percentile points in all academic subjects, on standardized tests.
* Students who have been homeschooled more than two years score substantially higher on standardized tests than those who have been schooled less than 2 years.
* Race is an inconsequential factor in homeschooling. In public school, 8th grade white students score on average around the 57th percentile while 8th grade black students scored only at the 24th percentile in math and reading. Regardless of race, the average 8th grade homeschooler scores around the 87th percentile. In other words, homeschooling solves the “race gap” in education.
*One study blew away the myth that schools need to spend more. The school system spends on average $5,700 per pupil while the average homeschooling family spends only around $600 per pupil. Despite the monetary gap, as I’ve mentioned earlier, homeschooled students outperform their public school counterparts significantly.
*There is no positive correlation between state regulations and home school achievement. That is to say that students whose parents aren’t regulated at all, do just as well as students whose parents have to fill out mounds of paperwork.
*Studies show that the longer a child is homeschooled, the better he scores on standardized tests. Homeschooled high school students score approximately 12 percentile points better than younger students. This is in contrast to the trend in public school which shows that on average, the longer a student is publicly schooled, the poorer he does on standardized tests.
Feel free to print this for easy reference for any nay sayers in your life!
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