Is there really a typical day in home schooling? No

Is there really a typical day in home schooling? I can’t really say that it is. Let’s see. We have seven children and to some decree we teach all of them. From our youngest to our oldest we have lots of stories to tell. We started home schooling roughly 6 years ago and we are in no ways regretting this decision.

Benjamin ,the baby, is learning to speak, run, feed himself, etc. Samuel, the 2 year old, is repeating everything he hears, Hannah, the 4 year old say. Rebecca is soon to be 7 and she is on the verge of being a math genius. She does math on a 4th grade level and enjoys this accomplishment. Sophia is nine and very shy. However, when we are filming she springs into action. She definitely lives up to her name Wisdom. Eric is 12 and he is our young scientist, meteorologist, theologian and political ace. He also loves reading. Tiara, our oldest has been completely engulfed in reading since we could remember. She enjoys reading so much that she would sometimes check out 6 or more books from the library at one time.

All that being said, we love home schooling our children. Quite frankly, it hasn’t always been easy and still isn‘t. When we lived in Michigan our business kept us so extremely busy that we didn’t know if we could continue effectively. We eventually hired a few people to aid us in our business so that we could lighten our load. Since moving south we still run our business from home and now have a full classroom set up for the children to learn. Our library is their classroom and it is right next to our office which makes our job a lot easier.

When it comes to home schooling our children we have tried many different methods. Our oldest uses a high school curriculum that has simplified her studies. She is maintaining a 3.71 GPA and will be graduating soon. The other children are on a more diversified course of studies. We have tried curriculum based studies with them but it was getting to be very expensive so we have developed some of our own. My husbands brother, who works for the board of education, gave us some extra books that he had. This was also a great big help to us.

We first started with all of the State required subjects and built from there. We have incorporated business, technology, videography and many other things into their studies. It is our goal to have very well rounded self sufficient children when it is all said and done. We are in no means saying that this is all easy, but what we are saying is that this is a task worth the effort.

We try to stick to a structured day starting at 7:00 a.m. each morning and ending around 3:30. It doesn’t always happen but we are very close to it. We even have school on Saturdays and Sundays if necessary. Our kids all love home schooling with the exception of our oldest. Because she had gotten a good taste of being popular in public school she has never been thrilled with the idea of being home schooled. She has made many attempts at trying to get us to let her return to public school, but to no avail. It is our belief that the public school is very damaging to many children and that it needs a major overhaul.

As Christians, my husband and I feel that the public school is no place for our kids and that we are best suited to teach them. We encourage anyone that is on the fence about home schooling to do their research and understand the ramifications behind keeping your children in public school. If you need more information there are many support groups springing up including ours, The Black Home Schoolers Association, Inc. We can be found on the web at www.BlackHomeSchoolers.com


Tamiko Banks
Director, Black Home Schoolers Association, Inc.
Email: contact@blackhomeschoolers.com

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Emancipation from public education

Emancipation from public education

As parents we must make tough decisions in regards to our kids. The decisions we make will impact their lives even after they are all grown up. Just imagine for one moment that a decision that you made ruined or deeply impacted your child’s life in a negative way. How will you deal with knowing that your decisions may have harmed your child.

Well, believe it or not the decision to send children to public school has proven to have some major negative ramifications. Many children pick up some very bad habits and ways from being in public school. Many of our young people are exposed to drugs, alcohol, sex, homosexuality, violence and more just from going to public school. Some children face the pressures of bullying and not being able to keep up among other things. All of this is the result of being in an unstable and hostile environment.

When a child is in a hostile environment they are unable to function properly. There is no such thing as telling your child to merely concentrate and ignore what‘s happening around them. A statement such as that , suggest that you don’t have an answer for your child and therefore can only put the situation on the back burner. Many parents find out the hard way that this decision may ultimately harm their child’s future. The instability in the public school environment has helped lead to the rapid decline in academic achievement in our schools. This is why there is such a huge increase in home education. The public school system has failed our children.

Home education has such a rapid increase, especially amongst African Americans, which is primarily due to the insufficient educational process of the public school. It is estimated that more than 2,00,000 American children are home schooled. This number will continue to increase as parents awareness is sparked. More and more parents are taking the plunge into home schooling as they realize that they can better educate their children.

Black home schoolers are especially motivated to take on the role as parent-teacher seeing that African American children have a higher dropout rate than any other race. The only way to protect your child from becoming a part of this dropout statistic is to become and early dropout through emancipating yourselves from the state institutional education. Please understand that I’m referring to having your child drop out of a failed institution and reviving their learning through home education. We here at The Black Home Schoolers Association would like to help in every way we can. Please feel free to contact us or visit our website at: www.BlackHomeschoolers.com

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The Rise In Black Homeschooling

The Black Homeschooler’s Association is a non-profit organization in Fulton, Kentucky . Our organization was developed to encourage blacks (African Americans) to see the benefits of home education and training. It is said that Blacks are joining the home schooling community at an alarming rate. With the rise in violence, drop outs and failing grades many parents are taking their children’s education very personal. Even with all the controversy surrounding home schooling families of all races are finding this to be the only option of educating their children.

Blacks are quickly beginning to realize the importance of home education and thus many groups and organization are popping up all over the place. Many have concerns of the social ramifications of home schooling but it is quickly becoming a moot point. Home schooled children are constantly proving that what they are learning at home is sticking good.

Many groups are taking their support groups online to provide networking opportunities for those who may not have local support groups. The Black Homeschoolers Association has an online community, http://www.BlackHomeSchoolers.com which is a social network that allows homeschoolers to meet, blog, upload videos, audio and more. There you can also meet other home schoolers and share valuable resources.

Knowing how important our children’s education is we must always consider what options are best when educating them. There are hundreds of home school curriculum available to make your transition easy. Always try to connect with other homeschoolers to share valuable resources. One very valuable resource is the HSLDA the Home School legal Defense Association. The Home School Legal Defense Association is a nonprofit advocacy organization established to defend and advance the constitutional right of parents to direct the education of their children and to protect family freedoms.

Recent news articles such as in The Village Voice and Radio Broadcast such as NPR guest claim that the public school system is failing to educate black children thus there will be a continued rise in home schooling.