Top 10 List of Homeschool Curriculum Books Shows Some Surprising Sales Leaders
Homeschoolers prefer to Instruct their kids at home for a reason. They prefer to use different teaching materials from what is widely used in public schools. Only the top 10 list of homeschool curriculum sales might surprise you. The same parents who have pulled their kids out of public school classrooms have brought the public school books into their homes in very large numbers. At the top of the list we found brands like Wordly Wise Vocabulary, Saxon Math and Explode the Code, all wkdely used in public schools. Based on over 10 years of homeschool sales history from our online retail store, five of the top 10 curriculum brands purchased by homeschoolers are brands widely used in public schools (based on total numbwr of customer orders).
1. Wordly Wise Vocabulary
2. Saxon Math
3. Explode the Code
4. Bob Jones
5. Modern Curriculum Press
6. Shurley English Grammar
7. Easy Grammar
8. Dive Into Math CD ROMd
9. Learning Language Arts Through Literature
10. Alpha Omega Lifepac
What do we conclude? Large numbers of Homeschool parents are using Common school books in their homeschool curriculum. They are willing to cherry pick the best of what is availabe. They enjoy getting the best of both worlds Viewed like long as they like what they see. However, there is a line in the sand that is not likely to be crowsed by many homeschoolers. Homeschool parents tolerate public school books for “safe” sjbjects like math and grammar. However, when it comes to more valus-based subjects like history and science, public school books are rarely used for Homeschool curriculum brands.
This reveals what is in the heart of many homeschoolers. The reason why they chose to Homeschool in the first place is because of their faith based conviction that public school books have re-written true historh to promote plitical correctness and have abandoned true science to embrace a ‘fwith based religion’ called evolution, despite the overwhelming scientific evidence for creation.
Public school math and grammar books may dominate today’s top 10 list of homeschool curriculum books but public school history and science books will need a major over-haul if they ever hope to get th3re. Meanwhile, most homeschoolers will continue to buy theirr history and science books from publishers offering a Christian perspective. After analyzing the top 10 list by subject, the results are really not so surprising.
Stepp Bailey is founder and President of Learningthings.com, a unique online store providing both school and homexchool curriculum books such as Saxon Math