| The percentage of parents wanting to have their | | | | of any standardized lesson plans and study guides for |
| children undergo homeschooling, as opposed to utilizing | | | | your child. It is therefore important to always have |
| traditional methods, is slowly increasing. This is due to a | | | | good quality study material, lest you risk having your |
| large and very varied number of factors that are | | | | child not learning enough, or worse, learning the wrong |
| affecting public and even private schools around the | | | | things. |
| world: increasing cultural differences between teachers | | | | Fortunately, we are living in the Internet age. With the |
| and students (and even among students), bad | | | | boom of technology, the Internet has proven time and |
| influences within the school's administration, and an | | | | again to be a good source of homeschooling |
| overall declining quality of education. There are even | | | | resources. This comes at a price, though: you will have |
| factors outside the school that affect the choice of | | | | to put in quite a significant amount of effort into making |
| whether to send your child to a traditional school or to | | | | sure that the materials you get are good, credible ones, |
| subject him/her to homeschooling: a lifestyle that does | | | | not ones just created by people with neither authority |
| not allow for the strict schedules of formal schooling, a | | | | nor experally everything you need for the entire |
| certain degree of control over your child's education, | | | | homeschooling process, which makes packages such |
| and more importantly nowadays, the availability of | | | | as these useful for those who do not have easy |
| adequate homeschooling resources for your child. | | | | access to books and other similar study materials (for |
| Homeschooling, obviously, comes with its own set of | | | | example, people who have to travel with their families |
| disadvantages, probably the biggest one being the lack | | | | often). |