Home schooling has taken on a whole new meaning over the past decade and has grown considerably in popularity as a viable educational alternative to traditional schooling. This type of schooling has particularly been of great interest to Christians but is available to anyone who is looking for a better means of educating their children. The benefits of a Christian classical education through home schooling far outweigh the alternatives. As traditional education has become more liberal and children at every grade level are being taught based on end of grade diagnostic testing that is driven by No Child Left Behind (NCLB), they are falling short of receiving the best possible education and coming out of school far less educated than children in other countries. Parents have taken matters into their own hands and have decided home schooling is the best way to educate their children, giving them control over curriculums being taught, and helping their students achieve far more academically.
Some of the advantages of Christian classical home schooling are parents can teach children the knowledge, culture, and traditions preserved and passed on to us by our forefathers. In other words, history can be taught correctly from a historical standpoint instead of the indoctrination that public schools have resorted to that focuses on the negatives of the past such as slavery. A classical Christian education is rooted in Christian foundational principles that are no longer taught in public school due to separation of church and state. Parents are better equipped to provide their children with the tools and resources needed to enable them to become independent-minded and instill lessons that will last a lifetime. Students in this environment are able to work at their own pace resulting in advancement and early graduation in many cases. Children who are taught in the classical Christian home schooling environment are found to be high-achievers, stellar students, and well above average on diagnostic test scores and grades as compared to students in traditional school settings. This is due in large part to the individualized instruction and interaction with one or both parents that creates parental involvement in their child’s education over and above the norm.
Above all, a classic Christian home schooling education provides students with the best possible educational experience they can have from grade school through high school without compromising values, ethics, and tradition. Parents have complete control over what their children learn and learning is highly esteemed in this setting, giving students an all-encompassing education that is beyond compare to that of any other available.