why homeschool a special presentation produced by chef of lafayette january 2007
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Why Homeschool
A Special Presentation
Produced by
Chef of Lafayette
January 2007
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Why HomeschoolThere are many questions today about homeschooling.
Here are two key ones:
• First: How do homeschool students score on standardized tests– Compared to Public School students of similar socio-
economic background
• Second: What about Socialization
• Also, some Homeschool Tips
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How do Home School Students Score?
• One of the first questions Prospective Home School Parents ask is:
• How do Home School Students Score on Nationally Standardized Tests?
• Studies over the past 15 years have found answers to these questions.
• Let’s compare home school student scores with those of Public School Students
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How do Home School Students Score?
• We’ll compare standardized test score results of Public School Students with similar test results for Home School Students
• We’ll look at K-12 results for Reading, Language, Math, Science and Social Studies
• And see if we can make any conclusions• We’ll start with Reading
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Home School Students Score 80-87 Percentile in all subjects: Very High Scores with
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How do Home School Students Score? 3 Rs plus Science & Social Studies
• The overall results are remarkable
• Home school students score at the 80th percentile level or above on standardized tests nationwide
• Far above the national average
• But you might say that homeschool parents are possibly above average in academic training, or contain mostly smarter family units.
• So, let’s compare home school students in families of similar academic background
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How do Home School Students Score: What about the Parents
• Studies on Public School Students show that the Education Level of the parents of such public School Students is very important
• Generally, the higher the education level of the parents, the better the performance of the student, in Public Schools.
• Remember, this is for Public School Students and their parents.
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How do Public School Students Score: What about the Parents
• We will first examine the results of Public School students whose parents have four different levels of education:
• Parents who have some High School
• Parents who are High School grads
• Parents who have some College
• Parents who are college grads.
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Public School Student Scores and Parent’s Education Level
• A few Key conclusions• For Public School Students, the education
level of the parents is a relatively accurate predictor of the results of the average public school student
• The greater the level of education of the parents, the higher the average level of academic result of the public school student
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Compare: Student Results by Parental Education Level-Public vs. Home School
• Next, we will compare the results of Public School Students at each educational level
• With Home School Students who had parents at the same educational level
• Then make a few conclusions
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Compare: Student Results by Parental Education Level-Public vs. Home School
• Key conclusions
• For the Average Public School Student, the parent’s education level is a relatively accurate predictor of academic results.
• The Higher the level of the parent’s level of education, the higher the average scores for public school students
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Compare: Student Results by Parental Education Level-Public vs. Home School
• Key conclusions
• For the average home educated student, the parent’s level of education is not an accurate predictor of the student’s results
• The average home school student scores at or near the 83.5 percentile, regardless of the level of education of the parents.
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What about Socialization, Special Interests and Enrichment Activities?• Research has found that most homeschool
students – are involved in a wide variety of outside
activities, – interact with a broad spectrum of people, and– make positive contributions to their
communities.
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What about Socialization, Special Interests and Enrichment Activities?• What about Socialization in our present
public schools?
• “We’ve got a whole lot of falsehoods associated with schooling,” says Gary Knowles, a University of Toronto researcher. … We have … weird rites of passage that are quite dysfunctional”
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What about Socialization, Special Interests and Enrichment Activities?The report continues:
• “Knowles has found home schoolers to be more self-reliant and focused. ‘They’re able to move into adulthood with a much better sense of self and have a very good sense of what they want to do,’ he said.”
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What about Socialization, Special Interests and Enrichment Activities?The report continues:
“Where did we ever get the idea that 2,000 13-year olds were the ideal people with which to socialize other 13-year olds?”
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What about Socialization, Special Interests and Enrichment Activities?• This is a question I would pose to all here:
• What is the best social group for Junior High Students?
• Is it other Junior High Students?
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What about Socialization, Special Interests and Enrichment Activities?• Brown Alumni Magazine, “Homeschooling
comes of Age,” January/February 2002:– “Homeschoolers are the epitome of Brown
students,” says Dean Joyce Reed. “They are self-directed, they take risks, and they don’t back off.”
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What about Socialization, Special Interests and Enrichment Activities?• “My parents decided to homeschool me
because I had speech problems, and they didn’t want to expose me to the teasing of school children. They taught me from kindergarten through 12th grade. I loved my “school” experience, and I don’t believe I ever wanted to attend a traditional school, public or private. It gave me the opportunity to truly grow up with my 3 siblings.
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What about Socialization, Special Interests and Enrichment Activities?• “And I was involved in many activities,
including 4-H, Awana, Bible club, and volunteering at a local hospital. Today as a 2002 college graduate … I already have a job as a full time accountant. Looking back on my schooling experience, I was definitely prepared for college—emotionally, spiritually, and mentally.– Carrie Ireland
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What about Socialization, Special Interests and Enrichment Activities?• How do you measure the success of
“socialization”?– By Academic success?– By civic involvement?– By lifestyle choices?– Or by just plain happiness?
– Let’s look at all 4.
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Socialization and Academics
• One result of successful socialization should be academic success.
• A well-adjusted child should tend to have more academic success than otherwise.
• Note that when we set forth a “tendency”, this does not always mean the correlation exists in every instance, simply that there is a tendency.
• This should be indicated in overall statistics, but not necessarily in every individual.
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Socialization and Academics
• We have already reviewed the remarkable academic results of home schoolers in high school, but what about college?
• Recent results of nationwide surveys provide interesting insights.
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• To the extent that socialization is related to Academics, it would be fair to say that Home School students are well-adjusted
• What about other areas of “socialization”– Civic Involvement– Lifestyle choices– Overall Happiness
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Socialization and Civic Involvement
Voted in National/state election in U.S. in last 5 years
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HomeEducated
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Socialization and Civic Involvement
• This is a small glimpse into the extraordinary amount of Community and Civic involvement by home school students (and their parents).
• We could go on and on, but we must yet deal with two other areas:– Lifestyle choices, and– General happiness
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Socialization and Daily Life
• There are many possible aspects of Daily life we could review, however data are only available for three basic subjects:– Reading habits– Sources for current events and news– Religious and Spiritual habits
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Socialization and Daily Life
Reading & News Habits
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
120%
Read any Booksin last 6 months
Used a publiclibrary in last 6
months
Reads anewspaper at
least once a week
Watches nationalnews on TV or
listens to nationalnews radio almost
every day.
Knows how to usethe internet
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HomeEducated
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Socialization and Daily LifeReligious habits
41%
93%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
General U.S. Home Educated
AttendsReligiousServices once amonth or more
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Socialization and Happiness Very happy, Pretty happy, not too happy
28%
59%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
General U.S. Home Educated
Happiness quotient: "Taken all together, howwould you say things are these days:
Veryhappy
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Socialization and HappinessVery happy, Pretty happy, not too happy
9%
2%
0%
1%
2%
3%
4%
5%
6%
7%
8%
9%
10%
General U.S. Home Educated
Happiness quotient: "Taken all together, how wouldyou say things are these days:
Not toohappy
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Socialization and HappinessExciting, Routine, or Dull
47%
73%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
General U.S. Home Educated
Perspective on life: "In general, do you find life exciting,pretty routine, or dull
Exciting
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Socialization and HappinessExciting, Routine, or Dull
4%
1%
0%
1%
1%
2%
2%
3%
3%
4%
4%
5%
General U.S. Home Educated
Perspective on life: "In general, do you find life exciting, prettyroutine, or dull
Dull
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Socialization and HappinessJob Satisfaction
40%
61%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
General U.S. Home Educated
Job Satisfaction: "On the whole, how satisfied are you withthe work you do"
VerySatisfied
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Socialization and Happiness
Job Satisfaction
3%
1%
0%
1%
1%
2%
2%
3%
3%
4%
General U.S. Home Educated
Job Satisfaction: "On the whole, how satisfied are youwith the work you do"
VeryDissatisfied
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Socialization and HappinessOutlook on Life
Most Important Factor for Success
68.2%
85.3%
0.0%
10.0%
20.0%
30.0%
40.0%
50.0%
60.0%
70.0%
80.0%
90.0%
General U.S. Home Educated
Most important factors for success: "Some people say that people get aheadby their own hard work; others say that lucky breaks or help from people are
more important. Which do you think is more important?"
Hard Work
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Socialization and HappinessOutlook on Life
Most Important Factor for Success9.7%
0.5%0.0%
2.0%
4.0%
6.0%
8.0%
10.0%
12.0%
General U.S. Home Educated
Most important factors for success: "Some people say that people getahead by their own hard work; others say that lucky breaks or help from
people are more important. Which do you think is more important?"
Luck or help
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Socialization and HappinessOutlook on Life
35%
4%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
General U.S. Home Educated
Own family has no say inwhat federal governmentdoes
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Socialization• By every measure, home school graduates appear to
be well-adjusted, contributing members of society and good citizens.
• The homeschool student starts with an excellent academic background,
• Nurtured by the one institution that cares for the student more than any other: the family.
• The student they takes that excellent academic background with confidence to college
• Then, understanding that hard work is a key element to success, they get to work.
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Socialization• Then, they join organizations in their community
and volunteer on an ongoing basis.
• Unlike their peers, they regularly attend church services.
• Understanding that their obligations as good citizens, they vote
• Even more, they volunteer and contribute to political candidates
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Socialization• As I read the literature on this subject, I have a bit
more hope for the future.
• Because the home school movement is growing and bringing with it a new breed of citizen, which is not new at all.
• These young citizens bring the same principled understanding to the marketplace that our founding fathers did when they came to these shores.
• If you know of anyone considering homeschooling, encourage them.
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Socialization
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Homeschool Tips
• Tip # 1: Get Plugged in
• There are two large groups and several smaller homeschool groups right here in Acadiana– Catholic: Holy Family– Protestant: Christian Home Educators Fellowship –
Chef of Lafayette
Several Smaller Groups– Local Church Groups– Local “Unschool” groups
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Homeschool Tips
• Tip # 2: Select a type of curriculum and method of homeschooling
• A few of the general categories:– Traditional– Classical– Unit Studies– Unschooling/Child Directed/Delight Directed
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Homeschool Tips
• Tip # 3: Attend a convention or curriculum fair.
• Tip # 4: Tap into the used curriculum market
• Tip # 5: Choose a place to do school
• Tip # 6: Be creative with field trips