Khan’s operational base is a converted walk-in closet in his Silicon Valley home, filled with a few hundred dollars’ worth of video equipment and bookshelves. It is here that Salman Khan produces his online lessons on Math, Science, and other subjects. The Khan Academy, appearing on YouTube and elsewhere is by any measure the most popular educational site online. Khan’s ‘playlist’ of over 1600 tutorials are now seen an average of 70,000 times a day. In any given month, Khan says, he’s reached about 200,000 students.

Distance education has been around for many years, and private (for-profit) schools are also doing very well. What sets the Khan Academy a part, aside for its viral word of mouth, and amazing growth, is that its free and concise. In less than 15 minutes Khan gets to the essence of the topic he’s lecturing about. Obviously you won’t learn topics such as Calculus in one session, the subject is divided into over 190 parts – these components seem to hit the sweet spot of length and substance. Moreover, Khan covers a vast array of topics, ranging from core Math (arithmetic, geometry, algebra,  trigonometry, calculus, and statistics), to Science ( biology, chemistry, and physics), and even economics, history, and more.  

Some sceptics in the education business don’t doubt that Khan means well and is helping students, but they question the impact of a system that doesn’t test performance or allow student-teacher discussion. Furthermore, sceptics have described Khan’s work as more of a library, not an academy. But Khan’s vision involves tens of thousands of tutorials offering world class virtual school, where anyone can learn anything, and (appropriately) his next step involves an interactive web application for user-paced practice and instruction.

1. Time commitment – Homeschooling tends to take up a lot of time in your day. It is more than just sitting down with books for a couple of hours. There are experiments and projects to be done, lessons to prepare, papers to grade, field trips, park days, music lessons, and the list goes on.

2. Financial strain – Homeschooling can be accomplished very inexpensively; however, it usually requires that the teaching parent will not be working out of the home. Some sacrifices will need to be made if the family is used to two incomes.

3. Socialization – More attention will need to be given to getting your children together with others. The beauty of homeschooling is being able to have more control of the social contacts your child makes.

4. Household organization – Housework and laundry still have to be done, but it probably won’t get done first thing in the morning. If a stickler for a spotless house, you might be in for a surprise. Not only does housework need to be let go at times, but homeschooling creates messes and clutter in itself.

5. Both parents in agreement – It is important that both parents agree to try homeschooling. It is very difficult to homeschool if one parent is against it.

6. Is your child willing? – A willing student is always helpful.

7. One year at a time – It isn’t a lifetime commitment – most families take one year at a time.

There are many private schools to choose from when considering sending your children. There are special needs schools, military schools, religious schools, Montessori schools and Waldorf schools. Thousands of schools focus on high school and offer college preparatory courses. There are schools are residential/ boarding schools or day school.

Private schools offer extracurricular activities , arts and sports as an important part of the programs.
Most private schools offer many extracurricular activities that a child can choose from . The visual and performing arts, dance, clubs of all kinds, interest groups and community service are just some of the extracurricular activities that are found in private schools.  There are Sports programs combine with academic work and extracurricular activities to develop the child as a whole.

Private schools provide better supervision and have zero tolerance policies.
One of the appealing aspects about sending your child to private school is that your child will never be a number at a private school. he/ She won’t be able to hide in the back of the class. Everyone will get a personal attention from the teachers. Another feature of private schools is that most have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to serious deviance of their rules and codes of conduct. Substance abuse, cheating in exams and bullying not unacceptable activities. Because of zero tolerance, you can be sure that you are placing your children in a safe environment. Children will understand that there are serious consequences for unacceptable behavior.

Class Size

The class size of most private schools allows plenty of personal attention.
This  small size allows students plenty of individual attention and lower student-to-teacher ratios. Class and school size matters in education.