What are the main reasons for homeschooling? Teaching your children yourself, at home, was highly despised just three decades ago, but is now becoming part of mainstream American culture. It’s almost becoming fashionable to homeschool nowadays. And homeschoolers are no longer considered the lepers of society.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the main reason for homeschooling was religion. Parents felt that the secular education provided in public schools went against their own religious beliefs.

In the 21st century, many other parents are homeschooling their children for various reasons. But homeschooling is not a recent phenomenon. Homo sapiens have been homeschooling their children for as long as they have existed, and that has been for a staggering 195,000 years!

Of course, our distant ancestors did not read Shakespeare’s sonnets or look through microscopes with their children. His was an informal education. You can imagine children sitting wide-eyed around a campfire while tribal elders recount the dangers of swimming in crocodile-infested waters or leaving the village on a moonless night.

But if you’re under the impression that homeschooling can never keep up with public school education, you might be surprised to learn that some of America’s distinguished presidents have been homeschooled. Whatever their reasons for homeschooling, the parents of George Washington, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt would have been immensely proud of their sons’ colossal achievements.

Homeschoolers are also not pushovers when it comes to intellectual achievement. Research has shown time and again that homeschoolers score higher on standardized tests than their public school-educated peers. And homeschoolers regularly gain admission to the best universities in the world. Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT, Cambridge, and Oxford (to name a few) are not qualified to open the doors of their hallowed halls to armies of homeschoolers.

Some of the world’s greatest minds, such as Thomas Edison and Mark Twain, have also been happily educated at home.

In short, one of the reasons for homeschooling is so your child can reach the dizzying heights of Mount Achievement.

But how do homeschoolers achieve such spectacular success? It’s quite simple, really. Imagine a typical public school classroom. The harassed teacher has to impart knowledge to the best of her ability to a class of 20 to 40 children with myriad personalities, backgrounds, hopes, emotions, and IQs.

Only someone who has taught such a diverse group before will know how frustratingly difficult it is to make every single one of them successful. The chances of all children succeeding and going to college are almost infinitesimal. If you don’t believe me, look at the national statistics on school failure and dropout in the United States. It is an unfortunate situation.

However, I don’t blame the teachers. It’s certainly not his fault. They do not work miracles and should never become scapegoats for this terrible situation.

So what are public schools missing that homeschools have in abundance? The answer is the precious commodity Time.

While public school teachers don’t have the time to address the needs of each and every child in their class, no matter how desperately they want to, homeschooling parents have all the time in the world to answer every question. your children’s questions and make sure you fully understand the topic before moving on to the next. Unlimited individual attention is the trump card that homeschoolers wield with devastating force.