We became home schoolers in 1996. We hadn't planned to be home schoolers, after all we live in an area where there a many thriving Jewish day schools, schools which we sent our children to and supported. It came down to a tuition crunch. We thank G-d have many children, and for many years we were able to pay full tuition; but eventually the time came when our tuition bills began to outstrip the bounds of our family budget. Unfortunately or perhaps fortunately, we could not meet a mutually satisfactory tuition agreement with the day school our 2 youngest children attended, and that is when we embarked on the path of alternative education and the Bnos Henya Project embarked on a home schooling adventure.
As a result of being a Jewish home school, we have become very resourceful in looking for resources that cater to the needs of Jewish educators, as well as locating many secular educational products and resources. Its a real challenge for the Jewish home school to find quality products and to get access to them, as the vast majority of practice books, workbooks, and curricula are teacher made and run off the copier at the schools where they teach effectively limiting the distribution to that particular school. So to help the next Jewish homeschooler get a leg up, we are sharing some of the resources we have found very useful. There is a plethora of products and support groups out there in the world of American home schooling geared for the Christian community, and in the wisdom of our great sage ben Zoma who said "Who is wise? He who learns from all men." We have looked through their catalogs for appropriate secular materials and even ordered a few excellent secular products from some of these sources.
The adventure has been interesting, exciting, progressive, sometimes boring, sometimes delightful; its a great responsibility and a great privilege. Overall the results have been very positive. Our kids are happier and we are happier, learning our way and at our pace, and having the control over what we study.
Chinuch l'naar, molding the education to the child rather than the child to the curriculum, is a wise philosophy. Homeschooling is not for every kid, and neither is mainstream schooling. "Different strokes for different folks"; we need diversity because children are diverse and their needs are diverse. Some kids are best off in a mainstream setting, some kids do fine anywhere you put them, and some kids flourish best in a homeschool atmosphere. Our advice to all parents is do whatever works best to meet your child's needs, and if that means homeschool, great! Go For It ! If it means mainstream school, great! Go For
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The Bnos Henya Project is looking for fellow Jewish homeschoolers to share ideas and offer support to each other. To that end we have inaugurated The Jewish Homeschool Association of Greater Chicago which meets monthly, on or about Rosh Chodesh, please contact Esther Morgan @ 847-884-1480. For further information or comments, about Jewish homeschooling or this website, drop us a line at BHP@BnosHenya.Org .
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