During the last 20 years, increasing numbers of families in the United States have chosen to educate their children at home or outside the conventional school environment. Of that number, a significant percentage of families have chosen homeschooling as the educational option for their gifted children. 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. Homeschooling parents use many resources and materials.