Lyman - Homeschooling Revolution(get kids out of public schools)

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This is Isabel Lyman's informative book The Homeschooling Revolution (2000) which presents a history of the movement and an exploration of the variety of issues confronting parents who may wish to teach their kids themselves instead of sending them to public schools (where their minds are molded to serve the state). Anyone familiar with the manifest problems and lively debate associated with the public school crisis in the United States will profit from reading this excellent primer on the home schooling revolution. Isabel Lyman, a former analyst with the Cato Institute, provides the reading public with an excellent overview of both the home schooling movement itself and a good discussion of the primary issues surrounding the problems and prospects confronting anyone daring to pull their kids away from the public school system to attempt to educate them at home. In so doing, she explores a number of important aspects of the home-schooling revolution, including legal issues, the mass of available materials for use as resources for the parent energetic enough to pursue them, and the downside in terms of social issues and peer pressure serving to counteract the family's determination to go it alone. She also employs a plethora of anecdotal information and incidents to help support the idea that home-schooling can and often should be considered as a viable alternative approach to more effectively educate one's children. Evidence gleaned over the last few years indicates children who are home schooled tend to perform better on standardized exams than their peers, and often seem much better adjusted and much more focused than their publicly educated cohorts. And, since their parent-teachers have a vested interest in teaching their children both salient skills as well as relevant information, such children seem to have a much better integrated perspective on the world at large than do their peers. Children who have emerged from a childhood of such private education often perform quite well at both state and private universities, and seem capable of as much intellectual stimulation as can be thrown their way. In short, home schooling seems to be a viable and practical alternative approach for families interested in pursuing such tact in today's troubled communities. The Homeschooling Revolution is an up-to-date introduction to the real-life revolution in homeschooling - its history, why people do it, how homeschoolers fare academically and how can you do it at your home. After all, don't you think public schools have dumbed you down when you were young? 135 pages. A must read for everyone.

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