This document is a compilation of questions and answers regarding home schooling. The questions werer posed to Mary Kay Clark of Seton Home School. The content of this document was extracted from CRNET, aka, Catholic Resource Network - a Catholic Bulleting Board accessed via modem/computer.
I will eventually update this page with additional information as time allows me to research.
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Catholic Family NewsIn addition to the recommended literature, I would also recommend that you and your wife begin to attend local Catholic support group meetings. These are fairly easy to find by simply asking around, but if you let me know the state in which you are located, I can put you in touch with a state or local Catholic group. These support group meetings would give you and your wife an idea of the problems parents have but also how they are solving them.
You ask about social interaction. When you attend these meetings, you will discover that home schooling families have many social activities, though the Catholic groups tend to focus on church related activities, such as First Friday devotions, visits to shrines, picketing abortion clinics, Pilgrim Virgin processions, May crownings, and so on.
You ask how home schooling compares with public and private schools. In the home school, the child can obtain an education. Achievement test scores prove that children taught at home school score an average of 30 percentile points higher than children taught in a classroom. In the home school, the child is not daily exposed to the serious problems children face today in the schools: guns, knives, drugs, sexual activity, witchcraft, the NEApromoted politically correct agenda regarding homosexuality, early sex and use of condoms, feminism, antipatriotic ideas, new age, Goals 2000, group therapy on suicide, personal and family analysis, and so on ad nauseam. By the way, seminaries are reporting that a high percentage of vocations are coming from the home school families. Catholic home school families tend to live the Catholic lifestyle more fully, attending Mass almost daily, saying the daily rosary, participating in the liturgical year with various activities, making their home truly the Domestic Church.