The Right Choice

Is homeschooling right for your son or daughter?  Is it right for you?  The decision to home school your child can be difficult, and one worthy of serious consideration for a variety of good reasons.

For many bright, motivated young people, homeschooling offers many opportunities and advantages not to be found elsewhere.

• When you home school, your home is certified as a state school at home, and you  are the at-home teacher in charge of your child's education.  If it's some sort of correspondence school and you aren't in charge, it may be homework, but it isn't homeschooling.
   

• Worthwhile homeschooling programs are geared toward helping students succeed in college, in their professions, and in their lives.  Courses are adjusted to give students a state-of-the-art, razor-sharp, academic edge, and give parents the freedom to emphasize or relax subject emphasis. 
   

• The home-school environment provides students with opportunities to mature and grow into confident, responsible young adults -- without the fear, anxiety, exceptional danger, and the social categorizing and rejection so common in most public and private boarding schools.
   

• Home-schooled students have the opportunity to focus their energy on the things that are important: academics,  properly selected and supervised social activities, and extracurricular activities other than school sports teaching everything except sportsmanship.
   

• Homeschooling provides a safe, structured environment where students have family supervision and guidance.  A caring adult is always available to give a student close, individual attention.  Your student knows that he or she can take their concern to someone they can trust and who will listen, and is always in a position to help or to find help: You!
   

• In you, your home-schooled student has the most appropriate school administrator in existence.  At Trent, you will have a highly qualified and dedicated staff upholding a trusted school philosophy, and assisting you whenever you ask.
   

• As always, be alert and beware.  Correspondence school graduates are not true home-schooled graduates and do not come close to the ACT and SAT scores of home-schoolers.  When you search for Home School or Homeschooling on you web server, most of the links provided will be to big-time correspondence schools trying to pass themselves off as homeschooling to unaware families.  When searching, keep this fact in mind: It's only homeschooling when your home is in control.

Make as wise and informed a choice as you can. 

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