For those who had experience both home schooling and public schools, which experience did they like the most?

Question

Is one experience better than the other or do the both of them have its strenghs and weaknesses?

Answer 1

I have experience with both.

I myself was a student of public school. It was good until 5th grade when the program was not prepared for students coming from schools that had already covered the material they had to offer. 7th grade was good -- our teachers cared and even taught college level material. 8th flopped --- again, I'd already learned the material. High school was stupid. I had a 3.68 average but didn't really learn what I was capable of learning. Most of the teachers complained incessantly about not receiving enough pay or having too many students in the class.

My children have all been homeschooled. I LOVE it. I don't ever feel the need to "get a break". I LOVE my children. They study, they work, they play, they have friends, they work at jobs, they go to college. We take breaks together and even, imagine this!, we even do things with other people!! AND we are not always together. But we love to be together. Homeschooling just means the the children do their academic work in the safety and privacy of HOME.

Guess what? I don't receive any pay but I still pay my school-taxes. AND the up-side is that I have a small classroom. Lots of one on one teaching moments. My students learn to study and succeed. They master their material and do very well.

"Home is where the heart is".

"Home Sweet Home."

Answer 2

I'm going to share about a homeschooled girl we know very well.

She went to public school for K-6. She loved K-2, but had great teachers and great friends. Academically she was having trouble and all they did was test her and label her as having difficulty in learning. In gr. 3, she had a horrible teacher who wouldn't help her out one bit. Gr. 4, great teacher, great year, but still suffering academically a bit. Grades 5 and 6 were horrible. The girls in her class started getting cliquey and snooty and picked on her because she wasn't interested in sneaking makeup to school to put on and didn't wear the kinds of clothes they wore, things like that. One of the boys kept harrassing her and lived near her, so on her way home from school, he'd pick on her mercilessly. A teacher threw a book at her. She was sent to the office to work by herself because she was talking in class. The teacher never bothered to find out that she was talking in class because she was asking her neighbour to explain what they needed to do--she was too afraid of the teacher to ask the teacher. They also did further testing mid grade 6 and had her labelled LD.

Her parents pulled her out after grade 6 and she has been homeschooling for the past 3 years. She absolutely loves it. She's an introvert, so not being around a ton of people all the time is great for her. She has a program in place that matches well with who she is and she is excelling academically, despite the earlier labels. She also has a best friend she met through competitive sports, something she would not have been able to continue if she'd stayed in public school due to the sheer amount of homework they tend to get in junior high here.

She is going to homeschool for the next 3 years, get her diploma and has plans to do some sort of post-secondary education. She does not want to set foot inside a public school classroom again.

This is just her case. The way things are set up for her, it's really good. A good homeschooling program will meet the children's needs more than it will meet the parents'.

There are definite strengths and weaknesses to both types of schooling. And each person who experiences both is going to find the results different due to a number of factors: parents, available social activities, personality, etc.

Answer 3

i was homeschooled throughout highschool and loved it. I've also experienced public school as well as private school. The worst was public school because I wasn't able to learn at my own pace. My experience homeschooling was so positive that I'm now homeschooling my kids at www.thejubileeacademy.org. It's an online homeschool program. They really love it and it's pretty inexpensive.

Answer 4

I homeschooled my son from kindergarten through 5th grade. At that time, my husband insisted on sending our son to the public school. They refused to pre-test him. Instead, they placed him in 6th grade classes for all subjects based on his age, even though I told them he was doing 7th grade work in all subjects except math. In math, he was doing 8th grade work. After two years in the public school, he tested at exactly the same level as when he entered. Needless to say, we pulled him from the public school. He will graduate from home this year, with plans to spend two years at the local community college (100% scholarship) and then join the Coast Guard with plans to become an engineer.

Answer 5

i loved home schooling because i got to sleep more, and it didnt matter what time i did my work, as long as it got completed... as for public schooling, i loved it because of my friends, but always hated because it was so much more "strict" compared to the laid back atmosphere i was use to prior...

Answer 6

I tough troubled kids----- MOST WERE home schooled!!!!!! I have watched and helot BIG boy's like 6 foot men!! while they cried!! THEY could NOT go to their Sr. Prom, play basketball--football!!! THEY just HATED their parents!!! They were so SAD!!! NO ONE SHOULD HOME SCHOOL a normal kid!!!!!!!! only the SPECIAL KIDS SHOULD BE home schooled!!!!!!! is so bad for the boys!!!