Black children are also learning well at home because their parents are instilling hard work and discipline early on instead of relying on public schools to attempt to do so. Black parents are mostly determined to set forth a movement where their children are not associated with or brought down by the stigma of academic underachievement and educational apathy. Parents are using the opportunities afforded by home schooling to be active participants in their children's education. Experts all agree that in order for children to be well-educated and bright learners parents must be an active part in their learning. In effect, as more black parents home school, they are becoming their children's primary source of education and by default active parts in their everyday rearing and learning. This is, as a result, creating black children who are excelling educationally and at levels that public schools cannot replicate.
Statistics have concluded that homeschoolers, regardless of race, are outpacing their public school counterparts. It is comforting to know that black home schooled children are following this trend as well. It goes without saying -- more conclusive studies need to be done with a larger sampling of minority home schooled children to determine definitively if black children are indeed performing as well as originally reported. However, in this early stage of black homeschooling, it appears that black students are faring well above average when educated at home.
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