Home Schooling

“Homeschooling – also called home education or home school – is the education of children at home, typically by parents or guardians, rather than in a public or private school.” Wikipedia

World wide home schooling is becoming more and more popular.
The same is true in South Africa. Being a semi home schooled chap myself I happen to like the concept, many folk I found however do not share my enthusiasm.

Luckily the new South African government legalized home schooling shortly after taking over the reins so now anyone who wishes to educate their own children can do so without prejudice.

Home schooling your children is not an easy task though and anyone who takes on this very daunting challenge should be commended.

The nice thing about home schooling these days is that good quality educational information is becoming more and more freely available thanks to websites like Wikipedia, Google and many many more, in fact from personal experience I would even go as far as saying that some home schooled pupils are streets ahead of students learning in regular schools.

I recently came across this interesting website documenting one families home schooling journey. It’s a nice sample of the typical home schooled outfit, if you ever plan to home school your kids or you are already doing it, pop over to their website and get a few tips