6 Reasons to Start Homeschooling ASAP

"Millions of American parents are now… schooling their offspring at home, and new computer software is making quality home education easier to accomplish. Recent studies have shown that home-schooled students are superior to schooled students both academically and socially…

"It shouldn’t surprise you that homeschooled students do so well. In school all students are expected, cookie cutter style, to learn the same way and at the same pace; at home, learning is individualized and self paced, as all learning should be."

–Teen 2.0: Saving Our Children and Families From the Torment of Adolescence, Robert Epstein, Ph. D.

Plenty of young people become well educated by their parents and through their own efforts despite going to public school.

But you can make the results even more dramatic by removing your children from these harmful institutions. Tomorrow we will dive into creative ways to homeschool or “unschool” if you think the logistics are impossible for your situation.

Today, let’s just focus on why children and teens need to be rescued from public schools.

1. Freedom Makes People Smarter

A study on rats found that when they were given “enriched” environments to explore, their brains physically grew, and the rats displayed better problem-solving skills.

They didn’t have to be forced to interact with their environment. They were naturally curious.

It doesn’t make sense to push your children towards particular things that you want them to learn, or that public schools say they should learn.