Are there any advantages to home schooling your child?

Question

Disadvantages?

Answer 1

20 Advantages in homeschooling:
There are so many advantages to homeschooling your child! It can be the absolute best method of educating your child.
1. The child learns at their own pace.
2. The child has a safe place to learn--public schools are dangerous places!
3. The distractions are minimal
4. The child learns naturally in a natural setting.
5. The curricululm can be tailored to the child's learning style.
6. The family gets to learn about the Bible.
7. It is good for parents to homeschool their children.
(I can answer the hard questions on Jeopardy!)
It helps the parents learn more, too.
8. Bad friends/teachers are eliminated.
9. Busy work is eliminated.
10.Field trips can be taken anytime.
11. Family vacations can be scheduled with other kids are being held prisoner in school.
12. Time and money is saved from keeping your child at home.
13. It's fun spending time with your child.
14. You can schedule the day your way and "do math
in your jammies" if you like.
15. Children are healthier because they are not exposed to so many children, germs and grimy, public places.
16. Your child can have lots of nice friends and not be placed at random in a group of unknown children and
teachers.
17. Homeschool curriculum tends to be better quality than public school.
18. Homeschool curriculum is 1-2 years ahead of public school curriculum.
19. Your child won't need to grow up too fast.
20. They are more social in homeschool because they
don't see their friends all the time.

Disadvantages:
Ummm--it's fun meeting at school and seeing other moms,
but you can do this in homeschooling by arranging a homeschool "coop." Moms meet together and teach the group different subjects.

Homeschooling works!

Answer 2

Some of the advantages to homeschooling your children are that they get one on one attention which cannot happen with 20-30 other kids in the classroom--you can chose the curriculum and you know that some teachers personal opinions or beliefs are not being taught to your child.

You don't have to worry about school violence or drugs.

As far as socialization goes you know who they are playing with.

There are all kinds of ways to make sure that your child is interacting with not only kids the same age but all different ages.
Church, play dates, dance, swim, sports etc.


some of the negatives would be that for the parent there is a lot more work involved--(however for some that is not a negative)
I don't think that the expense has to be anymore than sending your kids to school when you figure that they don't need as many clothes, school lunches, books and don't forget all the fund raising that is constantly going on.

I will be homeschooling this year and it will not be one dime out of my pocket because I am going thru a public charter school and they pay for all books and materials, field trips etc.

Answer 3

Advantages:

Your child gets to go his own pace and have basically one-on-one tutoring all the time. Also, you get to decide what will be taught and can go much more in-depth on a topic than can be done in school.

Because most homeschoolers focus on bookwork only in the mornings, that gives a child lots of time to be a kid and to follow interests.

You can go on lots and lots of field trips and stay as long or as little as you want.

You get to spend a lot of time with your children and raise them.

Your kids get to be out in the real world--going to the bank, the store, the library when it's not so busy and lots of other places-- while other kids are sitting behind desks in concrete buildings.

They don't get the negative peer influences caused by thinking that they should be doing what all the immature kids around them the same age are doing.

They don't care about the latest fashions or music.

Homeschooled kids tend to interact with a wide age range of kids and adults and don't usually care if there's nobody exactly the same age or in the same grade as them.

Homeschooled kids have more general coaching in social skills because they are better supervised.

Homeschooled children don't have to deal with bullies every day. They aren't picking up foul language from children at recess. They aren't learning the ins and outs of sex from an 8yo who learned it on the bus.

There are other advantages too. And obviously there would be advantages or the parents of over 1 million kids in the US and Canada wouldn't be homeschooling their kids.

Disadvantages:

You have to be willing to work at it. It's a full-time unpaid job. If you love being with your kids though, this isn't much of a disadvantage.

It can be costly if you choose certain packaged curriculums. But you don't need to use those and some people successfully homeschool on about $100 a year. Check out the book "Homeschooling on a Shoestring." Also consider that it's often costly to go to school: some schools charge a non-refundable textbook fee, school supplies fee with school supplies that may be completely ridiculous, a locker rental fee, some have $75 registration fees, you have to have special sneakers for the gym, you might have to purchase a gym uniform, lots of parents get new things for the kids all the time because their classmates have new things, field trip fees which often include extra for the bus rental and to pay for the teacher...

You have to deal with people saying negative things about homeschooling, even though they don't really necessarily know a lot about it.

Answer 4

As long as you're of average intelligence and a caring and ethusiastic parent, your child will get a much better education. The only real downside is replacing a child's socialization, but then since they don't actual teach children how to be social in schools and just "hope they work it out on their own" (to the social devastation of millions), you have the opportunity to actually HELP them learn social skills, so even that can be turned into a positive.

Suga-Pop, you have zero idea what you're talking about.

Answer 5

I am researching into the same thing right now. So far, I have figured out that it costs around 600.00 a year and it requires lots of work on the parents part. You have to maintain records, etc. Cons are they lack social interaction with many kids their age and they miss out on fun things at school that you can not offer them at the same level. Pros are that you can provide christian based education for your children, they can excel faster, and you can spend more time with them than the teacher to help them along in areas they are having problems with.

Answer 6

If you live in some states, Virginia, for example, there is virtually no paperwork or record keeping required. It's much easier in that way than dealing with the public schools. It is, however, harder, in that you don't get breaks that lots of people take for granted. You need to be there for your kids, be interested in what they're learning and thinking. You need to model how you love learning and you need to keep pursuing learning.

Socialization, of course, is much better for homeschoolers. First, you avoid the negativs, like cliques, conformity, and the consumer culture. Tho people come to see it as normal, the way we run our schools and keep our kids cooped up, lined up, shut up, is not normal or heatlhy. (Look around you!) Homeschooled kids are poised, smart, confident, good with people from all walks of life. Because they are so much more poised and interesting, some people want to pretend they're 'less well adjusted' than school kids. In fact, the truth is, the school kids develop a persona to hide behind and think the lack of a persona is nerdish. Very twisted thinking.

Our kids are in all kinds of activities - sports, music, theatre - and we meet weekly at a park with about 120 other people and we host events at our house and attend events at others. In schools, you stick with your age mates from your neighborhood. In homeschooling, your friends are all ages and from a wide variety of backgrounds (exception - there are whacked out fundamentalist homeschoolers who homeschool to get away from everybody. they are more and more the minority in homeschooling.)

The fastest growing type of homeschooling is : unschooling. no curriculum, the children decide what interests to pursue. Their enthusiasm and self-motivation is unmatched and will serve them very well in adulthood.

Answer 7

If you decide to homeschool get involved in a homeschool group in your area. The one I belong to bring in speakers from all over, they schedule field trips (so there is the socialization for the people who think we keep our kids in a bubble). They have used curriculum fairs, and support.

Answer 8

Not really>you are really just keeping them from interacting from other kids and that really makes them shy.

But if your child is having trouble focusing in public school then home schooling might be good for them.

If you do decide to homeschool then definitely get them involved in some activity's so that they can still see there friends too!

Answer 9

the child can't face the competition if taught at home. so schooling is better in the school only .

Answer 10

Plenty of good advice here.