Homeschooling involves parents choosing to educate their children at home instead of sending them to traditional public or private schools. The homeschooling movement grew in the 1970s when authors suggested it as an alternative. Currently, around 2.3 million students in the US are homeschooled, making up about 3% of school-aged children. Homeschooling allows for personalized education and strengthening family bonds but it also requires significant parental time and resources and can limit social interaction.

1. HOME SCHOOLING
Done By
S.Kumara Nidhirajan Pillay

2. INTRODUCTION
• Homeschooling is a progressive movement around the country and the
world, in which parents choose to educate their children at home instead of
sending them to a traditional public or private school.
• Families choose to homeschool for a variety of reasons, including
dissatisfaction with the educational options available, different religious
beliefs or educational philosophies, and the belief that children are not
progressing within the traditional school structure.
• The homeschooling movement began growing in the 1970s, when some
popular authors and researchers, such as John Holt and Dorothy and
Raymond Moore, started writing about educational reform. They suggested
homeschooling as an alternative educational option.

3. FACTS ABOUT HOMESCHOOLING
• According to the US National Household Education Surveys, about three
percent of all children in the US were homeschooled in the 2011 and 2012
school year.
• And as of 2016, there are about 2.3 million home-schooled students in the
United States .
• The studies found that majority of these children(63 percent) are in US.
• "Homeschooling in the United States: 2003 found that 78 percent utilized "a
public library"; 77 percent used "a homeschooling catalog"; 68 percent used
"retail bookstore"; 60 percent used "an education publisher ."
"Approximately half" used curriculum or books from "a homeschooling
organization", 37 percent from "religious institution“ and approximately 20
percent by "television, video or radio"; 19 percent via "Internet

4. MERITS OF HOMESCHOOLING
• Homeschooling is one-on-one tutoring.
• Homeschooling allows parents to customize their children’s education to
maximize learning.
• Homeschooled kids tend to think more independently.
• Homeschooling eradicates boredom.
• Homeschooling makes kids work for the knowledge, instead of grades.
• Homeschooling provides a safe learning environment.
• Homeschooling gives a sense of security in kids with “attachment
parenting”.
• Homeschooling strengthens closeness of the family, and parents’
relationships to children are made deeper.

5. DEMERITS OF HOMESCHOOLING
• It requires parents to be with their kids 24/7.
• It consumes a lot of time, energy, and resources.
• It causes financial restraints.
• It limits your child’s opportunities to participate in team sports, competitions,
and other extra-curricular activities.
• Children can miss out on the opportunity to interact with other children. This
can stop their development socially as they do not learn how to communicate or
behave in group settings.
• They do not go to school with the other kids in the neighborhood, which will
single them out, making it even harder to make friends.