Ten Reasons Why Homeschooling May Not Be the Best Choice »
Posted By pagey 1 year, 6 months ago in FamilyAs public schools appear to decline in quality and private schools continue to rise in cost, many parents have made up their minds that they can take the responsibility for teaching their own children through a home-school program.
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susanlovesiowa1 year, 6 months ago
Homeschooling is a WONDERFUL choice, free from the distractions of bad behavior, language and attitudes. As long as the home-schooled student passes the tests that are administered, what is the problem? I know quite a few home-schooled kids, and they are bright, polite, moral, articulate and thoroughly decent human beings. Being apart from the public school scene does not appear to have hurt them in the least!
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Digidave1 year, 6 months ago
I think homeschooling can work, but I am a big believer in public school. I went to urban public schools my whole life. Some of the best lessons I learned weren't neccesarily in the classroom, but by interacting with peers. It sounds cheezy, but they were life lessons, not academic.
That's not to say you can't have those same life lessons in homeschooling. But even dealing with Beaurcracy is a good thing -- it exists in the real world, and sheltering kids from it won't solve the problem later in life.
but the real reason I support public schools is because it's one of the last great equailizers in the country.
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tryingtofindmyway1 year, 6 months ago
You're absolutely right: the public school system is certainly an equalizer. It represses exceptional talent and caters to average or less than average students. The public school system sends children through a cookie-cutter curriculum that fails to adequately account for differences in learning style and ability. Children with greater talent aren't being challenged to excel and supercede the achievments of their peers with lesser abilities. Furthermore, they're all taught to think alike. My homeschool experience has made me a very creative and analytical thinker. I thank God and my parents frequently that I was not educated in the public school system.
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Mowens19841 year, 6 months ago
My fiance and I grew up together. Same church, different schooling. I went to public school my whole life, she was homeschooled until her Sophomore year in high school.
We turned out to be practically the same type of person, so I don't buy into any one method being better than the other.
Neither one of us is any more social than the other (in fact, I may be even less).
I guess it really depends on how overly protective the parents can be. It's a shame to see a child homeschooled when the parents entirely shelter them from the notion that bad things exist in the real world or how the world works.
I would probably allow my children to be homeschooled or go to a public or private school. What is important is that they receive a good education and don't feel as if there's going to be a bullet put into them each day they wake up.
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nakedtruth1 year, 6 months ago
Ok. This has to be one of the WORST thought out articles I've read in a long time. Take reason # 3. "How well do you get along with your children"? Now you might think that the author is going to say "If you don't get along well with your children then you shouldn't homeschool" right? WRONG! He makes the dubious claim that if you spend MORE time with your children by homeschooling then somehow you will "destroy what you treasure most in this equation , your relationship with your children." What a crock of shyt! Spending time with your children STRENGTHENS your relationship with them! I was homeschooled one year and while I wasn't planning to homeschool my on kids this obvious educational establishment propaganda piece is almost enough to convince me to homeschool.
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far2theright1 year, 6 months ago
Homeschooling is a wonderful thing. I have been homeschooled for 2 years and love it! I did go to public school from kindergarten to sixth grade but when I reached middle school the entire school was too racey. Children can spend more time with their parents, learn about GOD and can become good people. Homescooling is the best kind of schooling.
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foksipayne1 year, 6 months ago
I love God, and religion has nothing to do with it. I am thinking of homeschooling my son because the school needs to concentrate on the kids who don't learn things in one read though. Shame on you for assuming that, because far2theright believes in God that there is somthing wrong with them. and if it is because of their name, then shame too.maybe they are different than you, but they are still human.
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epluribusunum1 year, 6 months ago
It's true a schools/districts funds are based on enrollment. As a public school administrator I can tell you first hand the students we lose to homeschooling always seem to be the ones we want to keep; but I still support their decision. Reason #9 (Extra Curricular Activities) is untrue. Home-schooled Students that live in the area of a school have just as much rights to extra-curricular activities as the students who are enrolled. Parents provide grade reports to stay in line w/ the no pass no play policies. Many are unaware of this
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freeky-d1 year, 6 months ago
Are you sure it's mostly money.If you think about what is being taught in current public schools, the government will teach what they want the next generation of lemmings to believe,so that when they come up with some new ****** like a 'War Czar',they will go right along with it like good sheeple.
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freeky-d1 year, 6 months ago
The right wing religious have already caught on to this. They are among the largest homeschool percentile.They know that they can teach gullible little kids about anything if you present it in a manner which seems to resemble school, and they are raising up a new crop of Christian Soldiers.Be afraid.
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BoxMonkey1 year, 6 months ago
Every home schooled kid or family I've met have met or exceeded the standards set by the state they were in . Home schooling can be a positive experiencce . Schools just don't like it 'cause it cuts into Federal funding . Demographics .
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tryingtofindmyway1 year, 6 months ago
"Some parents, rather than acknowledge special needs which their children have, determine to home-school them." What an asinine, ignorant statement. Home-schooling provides maximum flexibilty and the ability to customize a teaching style to a child's best learning tendencies. "What about social interaction?" I find it absolutely laughable that a public school environment is considered a well rounded social system. Public school kids spend most of their time around peers only, and have little interaction with younger and older age groups. Home schoolers have the opportunity to socialize with a wide range of age groups. Granted, not every home school effort is well executed, but that's the faul of individual parents, not the system. I was homeschooled my entire grade school life, and now I'm a 4.0 GPA college graduate embarking on a successful career in marketing. I believe my education was vastly superior to anything the best public schools could offer.
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foksipayne1 year, 6 months ago
Homeschooling is good when the parent IS involved in the learning. A parent knows their child better than anyone, so of course they can figure out what the child needs to learn!
My son is getting marked down for "disrupting class". He's solving the problems given and trying to think of other ways to work them! he's just doing it faster than the rest. the skool wants to MEDICATE him. Did anyone mention that schools get more$$$ when they have kids with "disabilities"?
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