I believe the focus in Susan Garland’s paper “The ABCs of Homeschooling,” is directed more to the pro side, leading you to believe that you get more out of homeschooling than regular school. She argues that the popularity of homeschooling has grown along with the availability of online material to accommodate those looking to get an education outside of the classroom. Garland argues that homeschooling has its con sides such as: More likely to get into trouble due to less monitoring, eventually get on each other’s nerves, become socially inexperienced, and the need for proof with any and all of your studies. However, even with all the cons homeschooling presents Garland has shown how it is effective and a great benefit for those who may need…
There are of course some cons to homeschooling as well. Homeschooling can be more expensive than public schooling; also some teachers may not be qualified to teach in all areas of study. Public school has its pros and cons as well. When children are allowed to attend public schools, “they learn in group settings, and they have access to more extra-curricular activities” (www.educationbug.org). Now to look at the other side of the coin, public school has a “high student-teacher ratio, scheduled learning, and the school choose the curriculum” (www.educationbug.org).…
Have you ever wanted to be homeschooled? Most students will go to a public school and may think that being homeschooled is a lot better. Homeschooling is fine but going to a public school may be able to better help students. There are a lot of reasons why going to a public school would be better than being homeschooled. Students that go to a public school are more likely to graduate, have better social skills, and have better jobs. Homeschooling may stop students from ever leaving their home or town. This is because of the students social skills.…
Another topic regarding home school is cost. It costs money to get the curriculum, the tools, and the supplies to become an educator for your children. Regular public school is free, and there is just as much learning.…
Families who choose homeschooling enjoy more time together and quite flexible schedules for various activities. Homeschooling also allows parents to get one-on-one with their children to teach them in an understandable and comfortable way, providing a top notch education and great opportunities for developing social skills. Granted, this method of schooling may not work for families where both parents must work, but in most favorable cases, this manner of learning provides the best benefits and therefore should be chosen above the rest. Whether learning, spending time together, playing, or doing any number of other things, homeschooling families enjoy endless delights of their difficult, yet satisfying, life. The choice shines as clearly as the sun on a clear day: choose…
A lot of people choose homeschooling over public school because they belive that kids could get a better education homeschooled than at public school. In a public school, students have to learn at the speed of the other students in the class, not by how much they learn. This slows down how fast the student learns. But in homeschooling, it is a one on one education, where the speed of the subject is based on the individual student, not he whole class. Based on a study by the National Home Education Research Institute, it shows that students that are homeschooled graduate college at a higher rate of 66.7% compared to public school student who graduate at a rate of 57.5%.…
We 're all familiar with the popular images of homeschoolers in America: Extreme fundamentalist families shutting out all other points of view. These stereotypes are touted freely by the popular media and conventional schooling experts alike. But they have little to do with the realities of homeschooling for most families today, and are rarely backed by factual data. The average home-schooled student scored “81 points higher on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) than did the general population in 2000”. (Winters) At the National Spelling Bee in 2000, the top three winners were home-schooled. Studies show that, “home-schooled children also tend to score higher on basic skills testing than do public school children”. (Winters) According to the Wall Street Journal, “Evidence is mounting that homeschooling, once confined to the political and religious fringe, has achieved results not only on par with public education, but in some ways surpassing it.” (Reider) However, one subject continues to surface whenever the issue of home schooling arises. Public school administrators, teachers, and parents are all concerned about whether home schooling can be considered a good process of education. Therefore, I intend to prove that home-schooled children are properly socialized, fully educated and college admissions increasing acceptance rates of home schooled applicants prove that they’re prepared for the next level of education.…
There are many different views on which kind of schooling is better. Some people believe that homeschooling is the best way to educate their kids, or traditional public schools are the way to go. There are some parents that believe that paying the extra cost of private school is the best bang for the buck for their kid’s education. Home schooling has become more and more popular in that last 40 years. Back in the 1970’s no one even heard or knew what it was. In the late 70’s “there were only about 15,000 children being home schooled” (Grossman 2001) and 2007 there were around 1 million home schooled students and in the latest for 2012 there was 2 million home schooled students. In fall 2013, around 50 million students did attend public or private school. So is public/private school better or worse for your child over homeschooling them?…
The debate continues and often will turn into heated arguments between the two opposing sides. The side of the fence that you choose is ultimately your decision on what type of education your child receives. Homeschooling may have many benefits, a public school education may provide a better learning environment for a student to learn and succeed.…
"Parents of 136 homeschooled elementary children completed questionnaires assessing constructs derived from the parental involvement literature and personal beliefs identified in the homeschooling literature as important to parents’ decisions to home school. Results suggest that home-schooling parents appear to be motivated by an active role construction, strong sense of efficacy for helping the child learn, and positive perceptions of life context"(1). This shows that parents who choose to home school are very motivated to allow their children to succeed as best they can, also that they would want their children to learn every lesson possible, contrary to the belief that they want to shelter them.…
Home schooling is an issue constantly in the spotlight. There are people on both ends of the spectrum; home schooling could be the greatest thing to happen or the worst. Many parents will choose to home school because they have an issue with the other systems of schooling for one reason or another. A parent may home school because he would like complete control of his child’s curriculum (Hurley). In many cases, this relates to a stricter religion within the family. A parent might feel that his child would be corrupted by the general curriculum of a public school, especially one that does not pertain to the family’s respective religion. Another reason many choose to home school is that other methods of schooling are too crowded. Parents say that they “want their child to have a more individualized approach to education which can only be met in the home environment.” Also, the social environment in public schools is not deemed appropriate by many parents. This coincides with the point that…
Some parents do make the decision to homeschool their children and then you have those who still send their children to catch the school bus in the mornings, which take them to those traditional school settings. There are disadvantages that these children who are being homeschooled undergo. You will find that there are parents who don’t have the credentials to teach subjects sufficiently, then the children are missing out on time with other children their own age, and then children do need those other adults they can go to with problems or issues their having and they lack that.…
Although there are an array of positive benefits that come with home schooling there also can be some disadvantages. Parents that home school may become over whelmed by the pressure of having to devote so much time and effort into their children educational…
Homeschooled kids can get along well with people of all ages and social classes. Public school kids can barely talk to anyone not within one year of their own ages. Homeschooled kids usually act more mature than public schooled kids of the same age. Research has shown that homeschooled kids are a lot better socially than public schooled kids the same age, have more self-confidence and self-esteem.…
I wouldn’t recommend home schooling to any parent, I would rather send my child/children to regular school instead, all because to me your child doesn’t learn anything from sitting at home getting taught from the parents. Not saying that the parents are not teaching them anything, but that they need to be around more people. Attending regular school have your child/children around more siblings their age and not just be around the parents all the time.…