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Newsletter Library | Meet the Author
"Homeschooling: The Teen Years"
by Cafi Cohen
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Cafi Cohen Interviews: "College" Interview | "Teen Schooling" Interview | College Admissions Handbook
Interview 1 (College): Intro | Transcripts vs. Portfolios
Interview 2 (High School): Intro | Transcripts & Diplomas | Umbrella Schools | Volunteerism | College & Scholarships | Ten Reasons to Homeschool Through High School | Homeschooling Almost-for-free curriculum for teens | College at Age 13 | Afterschooling | Granting a Diploma
Interview 3 (College Admissions): Intro | Scholarships | College Success | High School HSing | Putting It All Together
Excerpt from:
"Homeschooling: The Teen Years"
Ten Reasons to Homeschool
Through High School (pg. 38)
Reprinted with permission of the author, Cafi Cohen
© 2000 by Prima Publishing. All rights reserved
  1. cohen.jpg (11123 bytes)Efficiency
    Many homeschoolers complete standard high school academics eighteen to twenty-four months, very quickly compared to the four years most high schools take. Using self-instructional materials, they chose, and learning in ways that make sense to them, most teens can cut the time for traditional high school by half.
  2. Head Start on College:
    Homeschooled teenagers often take college classes to supplement high school homeschooling.
  3. Self-Directed Learning:
    The absence of xperts in the home promotes autonomy and self-directed learning. Most homeschooled teenagers not only lean t teach themselves, they also become expert networkers.
  4. Travel:
    Freedom from the teaching constraints of school allos homeschoolers to take advantage of travel opportunities whenever they present themselves.
  5. Work Experience:
    Teenage homeschoolers have time for volunteer and paying jobs. Often they get better jobs than those who attend school simply because they are available during school hours.
  6. Time:
    Homeschoolers not only have more hours each day for creative endeavors and learning activities; they also have more time to be alone, to think, to daydream – to develop a private self and a personal identity.
  7. Family Closeness:
    In contrast to many adolescents who pull away from their families, homeschooling parents almost universally report that their teenagers grow closer to all family members.
  8. Limited Peer Pressure:
    Removed from the near-constant peer pressure in schools, most homeschooled teens develop mature manners and values.
  9. Saving Money:
    Both parents and teenagers may earn money while homeschooling, making home education less expensive than attendance at a public school where average yearly costs for extracurricular activities can exceed $500 per year.
  10. Fun:
    Homeschooling teens is fun for parents, who – in the light of their life experience – enjoy learning all the math and history and foreign language they missed the first time around.

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