Home Education Fact Sheet Introduction Home schooling is a growing movement that affords parents a chance to take responsibility for their child s education and help develop the child s interests. This creates a saving to the taxpayers of Ontario of over 100 million dollars annually.
Many school boards make demands on parents who home educate to have their program monitored.
This is only the policy of the school board. Active monitoring of home education programs, we believe, is not supported in law. This is probably the most misunderstood aspect of home schooling. Homeschoolers enjoy far more opportunities than children in the school system to learn to relate to others and get along with a wide variety of people. This happens as a normal part of family life - by living in the community, meeting regularly in community and home education groups, attending field trips and participating in countless other everyday activities.