There are a great number of myths as to home schooling that are mostly false assumptions of parents whose children attend public schools, or of parents considering a home school for their preschool children. However, these myths are all half-truths and wrong descriptions of the facts.
Too many people still imagine home school as an extension of religious fanaticism. They describe parents who home school their children as devoted to the point of fear over sending their children to public schools. Home school children are often seen as lonely, friendless and excessively protected or unprepared to deal with the real world.
Nevertheless, the modern home school reality is a far from this common point of view.
One widespread home school myth is that only Christian families educate their children at home. It doesn't mean that all home schooling families religiously oriented. In fact, not only Christians but also many different people of different religious backgrounds choose to home school their children for a variety of reasons. Only 33 percent of families that choose to home school reported religion as their main deciding factor.
Another common myth about home schooling is that home school children are undereducated. The reality is that students who are home schooled naturally score as well as their peers educated at public schools or even better.
It is also a myth that parents who home school use a formal curriculum in the process of teaching. Some of them do, but many prefer interactive methods of teaching and original combinations of formal education. This allows home school students meet the challenges of the real world better.
One more myth is that home school students face with lack of social interaction with other children. Some people wrongly believe that students who are home schooled do not receive enough peer interaction and that children taught at home are shut off from the outside world. Actually, home schooled students receive plenty of opportunities to socialize and to gain appropriate socialization skills.
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