History of home schooling
The modern homeschool movement began in the 1970s when John Holt, an educational theorist and supporter of school reform, began arguing that formal schools’ focus on rote learning created an oppressive classroom environment designed to make children compliant employees. Holt called for parents to liberate their children from formal education and instead follow a method today known as “unschooling.” Early Holt followers connected through Holt’s newsletter, Growing Without Schooling, which was founded in 1977. This method was also described as alternative methods of schooling, as it empowered the kid and the parent to choose their own syllabus at par with international standards and also based the kid’s individual needs.
