"I highly recommend any homeschooling parent to give themselves and their children the opportunity to be a part of this strong and nurturing community.”
- Co-Op Parent
Welcome to the wonderful world of homeschooling.
In a few years, you will look back on your experience and you will see that it will have been one of your crowning achievements as a parent.
You’ll have given your child a leg up on most other students that come out of the public-or even the private-school system.
Busting the Myths
Many people will direct certain statements at you to steer you clear from your choice to homeschool your child, but in reality, they are all myths. Well-meaning friends and family will tell you parents aren’t capable of teaching academic subjects correctly, colleges don’t accept homeschoolers, or homeschooled children don’t know how to socialize with their peers. Another misconception about homeschooling is their parents can’t adequately homeschool children with special needs. These statements are all incorrect.
During COVID-19, the world suddenly shifted to families homeschooling their children and the school districts couldn’t handle the sudden change because they weren’t equipped. They did not understand how to guide children’s education from home appropriately. The burden of education was on the parents, and teachers were left to swim in the unknown abyss of online learning, which frustrated many.
Parents' role was often to make sure that the kids attended their online classes, that the computer equipment was working, and keep the kids motivated, which seemed impossible for many families. Their children were unhappy with the lack of connection, hands-on learning, and meaningful interaction. Some will argue that the pandemic was to blame, and educators will say learning from home is too hard, but the truth was the lack of purposeful organic homeschool direction.
A legion of Millions
In 2021, the US Census Bureau (USCB) conducted a survey to determine how American families were managing the COVID-19 pandemic. The original intent of the survey was to determine whether the family members still had jobs or were eating sufficiently and how children were faring in school.
That survey showed that the decision to homeschool had gone dramatically.
According to the survey, 3.2 million parents were homeschooling their kids at the beginning of 2020. In 2021, that number had jumped to over 5 million.
That number represents families, but according to the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), 75% of homeschooling families have more than one child.
They estimate that at least 8 million children are now being homeschooled.
That’s quite a community, and it keeps growing. In fact, in 2015 the NCES estimated that there were only about 5.8 million students in private schools.
You are not alone in considering homeschooling.
Why do we have co-op
Many parents feel lost when it’s time to start homeschooling.
They feel unsure of themselves because they don’t have a blueprint for it, and they feel like they won’t know how to teach their kids.
Many parents feel like homeschooling is the right answer for the child, but they don’t know where to start.
The co-op is there to give you a roadmap to successfully homeschool your child efficiently and effortlessly with stress-free methods. Our goal is to help you create a plan to make homeschooling effective and fun for you, your child, and your entire family.
Your kids will have a better educational experience, and you’ll be able to homeschool without it consuming all your time by sharing each other's strengths as an Ummah.
You will not have to become a full-time educator, and you won’t feel like you’re flying blind.
Too many would-be homeschool parents give up before they even start because they surrender to homeschooling myths and don’t embrace the freedom, independence, and different methodologies homeschooling offers. Unfortunately, many children get lost in public schools not designed for them; they lack the one on one attention they need. Therefore homeschooling would be an appropriate choice for them and their family.
What happened during COVID-19 is not what homeschooling is supposed to represent. COVID-19 was crisis homeschooling.
Parents did not decide what to teach their kids, nor were they able to decide how to teach them.
Parents were at the mercy of whatever resources that their school and district made available to them.
That’s not homeschooling. That’s crisis management.
Homeschooling, done right, is a pleasurable and rewarding experience.
Our goal is for you to see that homeschooling is a valid way to learn and something that your whole family will appreciate and take to heart.
By the end of our discussion with your family, you will be ready to embark on an extraordinary lifelong homeschooling path which gives parents the ability to take charge of their child’s education skillfully.
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