The Rise of Homeschooling
The Rise of Homeschooling: Why Parents Choose Alternative Education and How Tutors Make It Succeed Homeschooling seldom occurs by accident. Such parents choose to do so for reasons as varied as their children's—dissatisfaction with traditional school environments, concern about bullying or peer pressures, taste for religious or value-based education, offering of special learning styles, or simply that they believe they can provide a more personalized, enriching educational experience. The recent years have seen homeschooling rise from the fringe option to mainstream choice, as parents discovered that education doesn't necessarily require institutional walls. Homeschooling is mostly opted for by most parents when the traditional schools fail to cater to their child's unique requirements. A gifted student sick of grade-level speed, a child with learning disabilities that require special attention, or an anxiety-disordered student who are immobilized by classroom environments—...