Challenges and Opportunities
When families consider homeschooling, there are many issues to explore.
Time commitment.
Homeschooling requires an enormous time commitment
by at least one parent. However, many parents of highly gifted children are already
actively committed to their children's education. Parents find themselves trying to
squeeze in extra hours for music, dance, and art. Frequently, their evenings are spent
enriching the classroom curriculum so their children will continue to be academically
challenged. These parents claim that homeschooling is a way to tailor their children's
education to specific needs and interests at the appropriate academic challenge level,
and to create an integrated educational environment that includes a wide range of
activities.
Talk together as a family to decide if this is the appropriate choice for you. As with any
educational option, homeschooling works better for some students and parents than for
others. Some find the demands and intensity of homeschooling to be too stressful;
others love the freedom and challenge.
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