The Benefits Of Home Schooling

The research topic that was selected is Home Schooling. The inspiration behind selecting this topic is related to a curiosity about what motivates African American families to make this choice. With the current school choice policies families are able to decide for themselves the educational platform that best serves their children. This semester we discussed different issues that African American children face in school such as segregation, low academic expectations, under achieving schools, the achievement gap, and school choice for urban areas. As a parent and a teacher of African American children who is looking for alternatives the question becomes how viable of an option is homeschooling in helping resolve some of the issues that students …show more content…
Parental choice has been expanded through the accountability structure of No Child Left Behind, which supports options such as charter schools and voucher choice programs. However families are taking the initiative afforded to them by this act to choose to homeschool their children. According to this study there are currently more children being educated in the home than in either charter schools or voucher choice programs. In 2003 it was reported that approximately 2 million families homeschooled with that number increasing by as much as 15-20% each …show more content…
Some felt that God led them to homeschool, while other felt that homeschooling complemented and supported their religious beliefs. Secondly, parents expressed a concern that school norms and structures sometimes work against Black children, male children specifically. Nineteen of the families attributed their decision to homeschool on perceptions of or experiences with inequalities, prejudices, discrimination, or racism in public and private schools p. 376 Moreover the lack of representation of African American people in the curriculum was another contributing