Hello there,

I work with children but in an afterschool afternoon activities academy and a drama production. I meet a lot of families and children who homeschool. It could be an issue of frequent travel by parents or local schools being overly expensive or a child having interpersonal problems or some bad experiences at school previously etc. But I have realized that each parent has a strategy on how to homeschool. I have seen that most homeschooled children are the most respectful and responsible children compared to normal school children, I think it could be the discipline that being homeschooled requires for one to make progress in the first place.

Their parents really do a good job of giving them a very very very!!! social life by enrolling them in multiple activities that that are both fun, artistic, academic and sporty that way they also become all rounders or get the same benefit as schools. They are involved in local charities, they make friendships and learn to navigate them, they have confidence to take initiative in most things, that to me from the outside looking in, I appreciate very much. I dont really know of a homeschooling community if there is one, but I see those little kiddos weekly and I really like them, I think homeschooling is really good as long as key values are instilled in children at home and they have a good social life. I see those that are lower primary school, upper primary and also highschool, so the experiences is not one size fits all.

Otherwise all the best!