What are the benefits to homeschooling a child who is already the top of his class and enjoys school?

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Your child will be free to move at his or her own pace. When my parents first pulled me out of public school in the second grade, any worries they had that they might not be doing the right thing dissipated when I flew through a reading textbook in three weeks that my peers were using for the ENTIRE YEAR. This was 18 years ago, when homeschooling was not nearly as popular as it is now, but my parents quickly realized that they were now free to encourage my learning in a way they simply weren't before. When I finished reading Anne Frank, my mother was able to take me to the Holocaust Museum and let me go more in depth on a topic I was suddenly hungry to know more about. That would not have been possible if I was still in public school. If nothing else, homeschooling gives you a better opportunity to be the strongest influence and model of ethics and behavior in your child's life, which is often not the case with school-taught children who are visually and audibly assaulted daily with a parade of negative and inappropriate behavior from their peers.

First answer by Maureen Daniels. Last edit by Maureen Daniels. Question popularity: 137 [recommend question]

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