56 Reasons Christians Homeschool
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To glorify God.
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To have a Christ-centered curriculum.
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To end separation of Church and education.
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To build Godly characters in the next generation.
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To teach our children the connection between academics, the world, and their duty as Christians
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To train warriors of the Christian faith in all the academic disciplines...math, science, history, literature,
political science, education, etc.)
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To teach good stewardship of resources, not only our own, but those of our nation
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To have the biblical world view interwoven into all subject areas.
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To prevent our children's beliefs and developing faith from being mocked, ridiculed or contradicted
before they are fully prepared and trained to join the battle.
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In order to have academics personalized to the individual needs of our children.
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In order to give our children more time to work in an area where they have talent (such as math, science,
foreign languages, music, mechanics, etc.)
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In order to help and encourage and even require our children achieve mastery in an area where they have
weakness.
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In order to help and encourage our children to forge ahead without having to wait for slower children or
consider someone else's preconceived ideas about what are appropriate graded materials.
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In order to learn math, not new math or new-new math
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In order to actually learn geography
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In order to make learning a way of life, not just a segmented part of life.
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In order to avoid unnecessary busywork
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In order to provide time and resources and encouragement for more in-depth studies based on a child's
interests
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In order to provide superior teaching and discipline as a parent is better able to discern what is a
learning problem and what is a discipline problem as they have known and loved this child from birth
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In order to avoid untested, unproven, trendy, but disastrous teaching methods
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In order to prevent our children from having to "sit under the counsel of the ungodly."
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In order to avoid both government control of our children and peer socialization of our children (IE,
fools leading fools, or the blind leading the blind
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In order to teach our children the importance of completing a project before moving on to something else
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In order to allow our children the human dignity to go to the bathroom without having to ask the
permission of another person, and also to take personal, sometime life-saving medications without having
to ask the permission of someone else
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In order to develop strong relationships between parent and child, and between the child and his siblings,
and between the child and his extended family. The order of importance of relationships should be God,
then family, then friends...NOT the reverse.
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In order to teach home management in the appropriate setting and the importance of home
management, and to ensure that this is not something that "slips by".
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In order to teach by example and discussion the importance of civics and the responsibilities of
citizenship...voting, learning about voting issues and candidates, following campaigns, volunteering, etc.
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In order to meet the needs of the family schedule, and to teach by example that the family and its
schedule is primary in importance.
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In order to allow the family to set the rules for what is allowable in free time, how much free time there
will be, and what rules must be abided by.
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Allows children to learn by example from parents, grandparents, other adults and older homeschooled
children important traits such as courtesy and honor.
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Allows parents to teach their sons how to be gentlemen and to be courteous to ladies and young ladies.
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Allows parents to teach their daughters how to be ladies.
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Allows our children to have positive interactions with community members of all ages
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In order to avoid that terrible morning rush, and allows mornings to be a time for devotions and study.
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In order to allow our children to learn and develop in an environment that is drug and alcohol-free and
also free of profanity, inappropriate behavior between sexes, and blatant disrespect.
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In order to protect our family's privacy from inappropriate questionnaires and surveys.
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In order to ensure that our children eat healthy, well-balanced meals and to teach them proper table
manners both by instruction and by example, and to ensure that they do not forget to thank God for their
food.
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In order to avoid spending money and time unwisely (stewardship) having to go to a doctor to get a slip of
paper after a child has had the flu or a cold in order to get him back into school.
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In order to allow our children to attend weddings, funerals, and other important family events without
having to ask anyone's permission.
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In order to protect our children's self esteem
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In order to hold ourselves more accountable for the process of educating our children for which we will
eventually be held accountable for by God.
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In order to ensure that our children learn appropriate Christian social skills.
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In order to avoid wasting time (stewardship) standing in line, changing classes, collecting money, riding
buses, waiting for papers to be passed out, waiting for unruly children to be disciplined, etc.
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In order to prevent our children from developing a "herd mentality."
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In order to protect our children from assault...assault from other children (bullies), and assault from
teachers, bus drivers, etc.
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In order to allow our children time to be children, and to not grow up too fast.
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In order to allow our children to develop opinions in a safe, Christian environment.
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In order to allow our children who have learning differences to learn in an environment where they are
protected from repeated failures, embarrassment and ridicule.
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In order to protect our children's developing sense of personal modesty by protecting them things like
group showers, group changing rooms, strip searches, etc.
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In order to provide our older children the time and encouragement to volunteer at meaningful activities
in the real world.
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In order to eliminate the false, school-generated "generation gap"
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In order to avoid late night, last minute, science or history projects.
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In order to teach our children that they are not to waste time or money. (stewardship)
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In order to avoid having our children stay up too late at night in order to complete both family duties
and homework, or from having to choose between family and homework.
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In order to make a statement that the Government, the State does NOT own our children in any way,
shape or form.
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In order to protect our children from false doctrine and false teaching that is antithetical to the
revealed Word of God.
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