Home Schooling is better than public schooling beause home schooled kids are genearlly smarter. They always test better, and they always tend to get in to good colleges. They are better off morally and are always GOOD kids. I know there are some public schooled children that are smart and will do fine, but why risk it. There is all that peer pressure. Is it worth them having a good social life, if they are even accpeted, in turn for not having as good of an education. I think more kids should think about being home schooled. More parents should home school. Look at all the reasearch online about this stuff. I couldn't find one anti-homeschool essay or anything. Public schools have problems. Let's discuss.
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Obviously not everyone in public schooling are detriments to our society, especially since the majority of people were in public schooling. Oprah had public schooling and so did Bill Gates for elementary school. You can't base someone being smart or a "good kid" based completely on where they were schooled. A lot of kids are screwed up because of their home lives and not the other way around.
Yes, I was public schooled. The fact of the matter is, is it worth risking. Almost all home schooled kids are succesful, you can not say that for public school.
-Hutch
"What can I say, that can explain, all this time I'm loving life..."
-The Starting Line
the two can't be compared. Its not about the school, its about the kids. kids who are home schooled often have a much different background than those in public school. Plus with MANY MORE kids in public school its hard to get a good comparison....its a lot easier to get 5 successful students than 20 successful students (i know these are not the actual numbers im just using it as a point). theres bound to be more rotten apples the larger the batch is...you get what im saying?
Plus as far as peer pressure that you mentioned...a child is stronger when they can face temptation and turn it down. All you're doing is removing the OPPORTUNITY for the child to say no. it doesn't mean they would once faced with it. so why risk it? you asked.....you risk it because if you're a good parent your child will not BE faltered by peer pressure. and even they are at least they will know how to be safe. I'd risk it to know that i did my job as a parent. I made it so that my child can go out in the world and not be faltered by their peers even when I am not there to keep a watchful eye all the time. It proves to me that my child is stronger, and more independent...which means they will function both socially and ethically with other adults later in life in such a way that it open them up for as much success as possible.
Children who are home schooled are often shielded to one belief system...one culture...one social status. and that is NOT progressive. knowing how to filter and experience all the world has to offer and learning to make a joint and succesful world is the ultimate key. And a child won't know how to do that when they are only immersed in one idea all of their childhood and adolesence...the birth place of our INDIVIDUAL thoughts and ideas.
Home schooled kids could be more shelterd and don't have the coping mechanisms that public schooled kids do dealing with the different real life issues that come up. That could make them more suseptable to things like cults and scams when they get older. Also the diversity of opinion in public schools add to the ability to think and reason that I would think a home schooled kid would lack. I really don't know so these are just speculations tossed out for debate.
Cults and scams when they are older...I doubt. But yes, they do not fit in quite like the others. Which begs the question, maybe high school is for socializing, not so much for learning. Or better yet, learning to socialize. What do we really learn in high school that we do not re-learn in college, or that we really don't remember and don't need after all.
-Hutch
"What can I say, that can explain, all this time I'm loving life..."
-The Starting Line
Public schooling can actually teach you something. I'm in public schooling and currently about to take seven AP tests; the experience of learning more efficent ways for studying and the test taking skills I've aquired are going to make my college life a lot more easier. Whereas in home schooling, you just get the certain skills your parents can give you when there are many others that you'll never learn until it's too late.
Actually Home Schooled children test much better than public schooled children on average. However, there are a lot more public school children to bring down that rate than home schooled. But I take AP classes and test also. I'm not good at them. Home Schooled children have the same oppertunities, but since they have there own pace they are done with their studies much earlier than public school and then have more time for prep...ACT, SAT, AP..whatever. They are not hindered in test taking...just socializing. Not to say Public Schooled kids are nessicarily hindered either. But there are more distractions. I know I am a horrible test taker, and never make time for preping.
-Hutch
"What can I say, that can explain, all this time I'm loving life..."
-The Starting Line
All I know is that from personal experience in public schooling I've learned about a dozen different ways to improve my test-taking. It also doesn't hurt that I'm actually a pretty good test-taker and a good guesser.
Public schooled kids do have a lot of distractions but I like that I can go along with the distractions or choose to study. And sometimes, kids need the distractions instead of the constant "study that" and "quiz tomorrow"'s.
I agree. And if I did not mention this before, I do plan on having my children public schooled. Even though the post is all about how good homeschooling is. I actually think it is the parents that matter.
-Hutch
"What can I say, that can explain, all this time I'm loving life..."
-The Starting Line
is because the learning plan is CUSTOMIZED to them. it doesn't mean theyre smarter or more gifted or anything like that.. and THAT'S where the problem lies. Not in public versus home...but in what we are doing for each student indiviually.
i have to say that i disagree with you about home schooling. i accept that home schooled kids are generally smarter, but its not worth the social problems that they might develop later. some home schooled kids do not develop the social skills needed to survive in the workplace. having social skills is the key to being successful in today's world and some home schooled kids are not being able to interact with other people like they would in a public school. some home schooled kids are almost too sheltered from the world. the public school systems of America might have problems, but home schooling is not without its problems. ~jessicA~
Home schooled kids are social. Well it really depends on their parents but they go to youth groups and music programms and sports thing just like other kids. Just not school. Do you think it might depend on the person. Or maybe homeschool until high school. or what? I think there are positives and negatives, I think they are plenty cablable of getting jobs and interacting though. Maybe just not the jobs that involve a lot of conversation. They'll be just fine.
-Hutch
"What can I say, that can explain, all this time I'm loving life..."
-The Starting Line
all of these activities that you mentioned are being monitored by the parents. going to school is a necessary release from the grasp of your parents every day. eight hours away and unmonitored gives the child properly socialized freedom that an hour of sports and/or a couple hours of youth group may not do for them. These activities should be applied in ADDITION to school. being restricted to these activities alone keeps the child restricted to an unvaried environment that children need to be faced with in order to be open minded (a necessary factor in a truly progressive life style) by their own choice and result of their own behavior .
What would a School Shooting look like in a Home school? Food for thought!
Ha..
-Hutch
"What can I say, that can explain, all this time I'm loving life..."
-The Starting Line
I am currently in Calculus, Physics, English Comp 1, American government, and Media 2. I know for a fact that my parents could not teach all these subjects, especially my mom. My dad has a masters in accounting. I am in public school. And in order for me to be in all these classes, would be to attend our local community college, which means a lot of expense in books and tution. At high school I am getting dual credit for my english and calculus class. I couln't get that unless one of my parent had a double masters in english and mathmatics.
Also, socializing is a key aspect to public school. I know many home schoolers in my area, and they seem to have poor interaction skills. They exihibit very little personality. Only one I know has "people skills". The rest are very unsocial.
To my main point, I could not have taken all these advanced classes if i was home schooled. I would have to be a full time enrolled college student in order to take all the advanced classes that I have taken in my four years of high school. That is where a public school outweighs a home school, is in the variety of education in one place. Everyone teacher in public school have been through at least some training on teaching, and know how to teach their grade well. In home school, the only way to obatain this is if you have a massive coalition of master degeree parents, who are willing to take the AP courses, and much more. This also means you would have to find a centeral location to meet or run from house to house all day long. Trust there are just some things you cannot be helped with online through chat rooms. And the meeting in one central place is why public schools were created in the first place, it was to bring a variety of individuals together in order to provide a better education. Also you cannot compare statistics of home schools to public schools. Public school children easily outweigh home schoolers 1:10 in population. So populations statistics cannot be acurately compared. Also it is cheaper to go to public school, you dont hve to buy books when you are in public school, in home school you have to buy books.
Strangely enough, I've never had this debate. The debate I usually have is Public school vs. Private school. I agree with what a lot of people above said. I think I'm smarter than both my parents, given that they've been focusing on one subject for over 20 years. My mom and I have way different interests. She's a geography person, and I'm a biology person. My dad's a nurse, so he would identify more with me, but he's been focusing on medicine for the past 20 years, and doesn't know a lot of basic stuff anymore. Neither of them could have taught me enough to get 5's on my AP Physics, AP Calc, IB English, IB History, IB Physics, IB French, and IB Biology, a 4 on AP US History (sophomore year, highest score in the history of the school, against a bunch of juniors), or a 7 on IB Math Methods. It just wouldn't have happened. Plus, my parents are divorced, and neither of them can afford to stay home to home school me.
However, my first stepmother did home school my little sister (after I moved away to live with my mom). My sister had a horrible time with it. As soon as she was put into the public school system, she made leaps and bounds of progress, when she could barely talk when she was in school with my stepmom. Neither of my parents could have made that type of progress with her, because they wouldn't have known how. So they would have called in a specialist. And then my sister would have learned to interact with one person, and would have had a difficult time learning to interact with others.
Each teacher in public school is a mini expert (they aren't experts, as they'd typically have better than a masters, or a bachelor's, in some cases) in the subject he/she teaches. Each teacher has a different way of teaching. Putting a child through public school allows them to learn in different ways and explore more than any child in home schooling could. They are forced to interact with multitudes of other children, and learn more because of it. The things I learned in high school helped me breeze through my first year of college, and adapt easily to my third semester. I also learned what classes I liked and why, so that in college, I could start right away on learning what I wanted to, rather than taking a bunch of classes I would have been bored with otherwise. So you may not think high school was all that great, but I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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i think that home schooling is not better than public, because when the person finishes school they have to go into the real world and go wild because they have missed out on the school activities.
I don't think its fair to say that statement for a fact. Yes, many of the children in the national spelling bee are homeschooled but that doesn't mean that they are smarter than any other child. The teaching styles and learning environments are completely different from each other and being homeschooled you can get better one-on-one attention whereas in the public schools (or private schools) you can be in accelerated reading classes and in GT courses. Also with public school teaching, the teacher has to cater to EVERYONE's needs, not just ONE student.
Also, I have known some kids who were homeschooled and were completely unsociable. Peer pressure is everywhere from doing drugs in high school to being a kid and being dared into doing something... its all the same.
My name is Kaylan and I am thinking about home-educating my four children. I am going to have a bachelors in accounting one day but other than that and a High School Diploma I have no other education. I have done four years of extensive research on home educating and I still can't make up my decision. I know many home schooling families and they are all wonderful. Some better then others, some less stressed out then others. The children are all wonderful! They are all very smart, wonderfully socialized children, but when I ask them if they like home-schooling most of them respond yes but I'd like to go to school to meet new friends, I think it would be more interesting then staying at home with my mom. I don't want my children to feel like they are missing out. Academically I feel home education is better! Also socially they don't become peer dependant and they are never tortured. Thier self esteems are less likley to be shatterd at a young age. When my children are high-school age they can choose to continue home schooling or go to school. I feel at that point they are old enough to make thier own decison. I have in math taken all the way through calculus! I know I am educated enough to educate them, but I do want to make the right decision for them. Right now my children are only 4, 3,3 and 2, but the decision needs to be made soon, my daughter starts kindergarden next year! I just do not want my children to hate me for making one decison or the other!
I have never thought of a Kindergartener having their self esteems shattered just because somebody picked on them. It's a part of life... maybe that's why tag has been banned from elementary schools.
Good post though.
when I was going to school, I did not understand reading until I was in 2nd grade. But in second grade all of the sudden I could read! Not very well, but learning to read well is a process that takes time. They labeled me a slow reader, even though I WAS JUST LEARNING! So for the rest of my younger years, all through high school, I thought I was stupid and had a complex about reading, I hated reading, especially out loud! Now I love it and I have become an avid reader, but I had to overcome the title that was placed on me. I had a low selfesteem about reading and other things because a teacher told be it wasn't good enough or i didn't try hard enough, when I really did the best I could. This is not the way it works in REAL LIFE! In real life if someone treats us bad, we don't have to include them in our lives. We only hang around the people we want to influence our lives. We are not tortured, there is not peer pressure! Real life is not public school, real life happens out in the REAL WORLD and at home, not in an institutionalized setting! I have not been tortured, or put down, or told I didn't measure up since I left school!
I was homeschooled for all of my school years, and I don't feel that I missed much. Of course, I probably do not know what I missed.
The one thing that I am disappointed about is the lack of different opinions. When my parents presented other opinions, it was this is how the other side thinks. It wasn't unbiased, but maybe nothing can be presented an in unbiased way if you have only one person talking about it.
Anyhow, I was definitely prepared for college, and I found the transition between high school and college pretty easy. When I took chemistry, I was helping some of the students who had been in college for a few years. I don't think that my logic or ability to debate or discuss was happered much. After all, you debate and discuss with your mom and try to find reasons for why you should not have to learn some things.