The most important things in life are learned first, before reading, writing, and arithmetic. Education should be, and in home education is, a seamless continuum in length and breadth. While it is deemed necessary to make the system work through the rest of the 12 year production line process, it costs your child two years out of his life. Wise home educators don't do school. Most home educators have found that by pruning away the unnecessary time-wasting elements of the public school year, elements not needed in the home education environment, they can get in more genuine education.
Home educators can achieve a better balance between physical activity and book work.
Without a hectic imposed schedule there is even time to think, and to pray. Many home educators study year-'round, take off a month for Christmas, a month in the spring, a month in the summer, and still get in a year and a half of solid academic progress each year. Standardized achievement tests confirm, year after year, that home education achieves astounding results . That home educated youngsters do well in college and excel in leadership are now regarded as typical. Colleges have begun to actively recruit home educated students.