Who home schools their children?

Question

what're the results.

Answer 1

not me I'd send them to public school so I can relax.

Answer 2

Parents who truly love their child (ren) will home school for various reasons. Perhaps it's because the child has a different way of learning than can be taught in public schools. My daughter had a hard time learning by simply reading the text books and answering questions. She did better through discussion and digging into sometime to find out how it works. With 20+ students in a classroom, those types of learners are quickly lost and forgotten, usually end up being labeled as trouble makers and shipped off to schools for "problem" kids.

Answer 3

I home school my 6 year old. He is friendly, well adjusted, outgoing, and has MANY friends. He is also an excellent actor and is interested in many activities, arts, and sports.

He initiates and completes social action projects, is compassionate, has a strong conscience and sense of ethics.

He went to a lecture on Supernovae last night, took pictographic notes, asked interesting questions, and gave his own hypothesis on why there are no "green light stars". It wasn't correct, but it was a good, well reasoned hypothesis.

Although I have no teaching degree, I have years more teaching experience than most new teachers. However, I DO have a college degree. So far I have not needed to draw on my collegiate background to competently share information with my child.

A teaching degree is mainly to certify that teachers can manage large groups in an educational setting, it does not mean they can better teach any specific child.

Answer 4

I have seen successful cases but I have also seen disastrous cases of children being home schooled. I believe the parents should be disciplined and whomever is teaching should have a degree. Teachers go to college to teach. How can someone expect to teach their children a subject, they themselves don't understand? I seen grown ups who are products of bad homeschooling and they have become naive idiots who cannot function in the real world and have to depend on others to take care of them because they cannot get decent jobs.

Answer 5

my kids are too cool for school!!

seriously though... they have the natural personalities they were born with.. one outgoing, and one shy.

The outgoing one tested at the top of her grade level even though the schools insisted she needed ritalin.

The more shy one was being held back from his potential and was a target for bullies. Now he has a red belt in TaeKwonDo and enjoys fencing. He also has no trouble talking to others.

I believe homeschooling brings out the best in a child

Answer 6

I homeschool my children. my oldest started out in school outside the home, and she wasn't doing that good. Now, they are both very well rounded. They have one on one learning, they have a great social life, and they are NOTHING like the kids that you come across in the public school system. They are great kids with very high morals! I would suggest homeschooling to everyone!

Answer 7

I homeschool both of my boys. The older one has tested in the 99th %ile in almost every subject on his grade-level ITBS (the younger one is still too young for testing). My boys have lots of friends and enjoy a wide variety of activities.

Homeschooling is NOT for everyone - it takes a strong commitment on the part of the parents for the child to be successful. However, a college degree is not necessary. Generally, teachers go to college to learn classroom management and administration, not subject matter.

Answer 8

Between 700,000 and 1,200,00 parents in the USA homeschool their children. An analysis of the achiements of home-schooled children, who score exceptionally higher according to statstics, can be viewed at : http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v7n8/
Click on the orange tab for MOST RELEVENT findings. Good luck.

Answer 9

I home school my children. The result is well balanced children who know they are loved. One on one attention for their development. The idea of home school is nothing new.

Answer 10

I am sure there are successful stories.
From a little experience, they seem to be different and may not necessarily work well with deadline and system. Their outlook of the world and society seems somewhat limited.
But regular schooled people can have similar or worse problems.

Answer 11

well i am part of the homeschooling crowd, this allows one on one attention and we move at their pace, if they get the information we move on, if they are struggling we stay on the subject until it is grasped, i find that a lot of public school children are falling through the cracks and are not receiving the education they deserve,