The homeschool mission statement

What is a homeschool mission statement?  A homeschool mission statement is your reason for homeschooling your child or children.  What do you hope to accomplish?  Is it just to give them a better education?  A better quality of life? To teach them about the Lord?  Is it all of the above? There are many reasons that I would advise a homeschool mom or dad to create a mission statement. 

A mission statement will help you to focus your efforts on a single goal.  I would advise you to make a mission statement very detailed.  This way you can judge yourself on how well you are doing.  For example if your mission statement is vague like, I want my child to get a better education than they would at school, how will you measure that? How would you know what their education will be or would have been at school? 

A better way of phrasing this homeschool mission statement is to have a more specific goal. Let me give you an example.  The home school mission statement for our family is to teach our children to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and, Love your neighbor as yourself. (Deuteronomy 6:5 & Luke 10:27)

Our reason for home schooling our children is that we feel it is what God has called us to do.  Our homeschool mission statement reflects that.  We want to teach our children about God, who he is, what he did for us, and why.  The Bible tells us to teach our children about the Lords commandments. “Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.” (Deuteronomy 11:19)  What better way to do this than to educate your children at home?