do you feel you would have benefited more from homeschooling with out the peer pressures, bullying, playground politics, and teacher prejudices?
2006-09-16 03:08:15 · 9 answers · asked by sofiarose 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
My brother and I are both long out of school already but my cousins have been and are still being homeschooled and are in their middle school years. At first, I thought that homeschooling was a great idea. The kids seemed to be really ahead of the game and still seemed to have a great social life. Now, however, when I speak to them and talk to them on the phone, I realize more and more the benifits of having a public/private school social life. They have a hard time interacting with kids their own age and even with adults that they're not too firimilar with. I would say that if you're going to homeschool your children they should definitly be involved in plenty of extra cirricular activities with other kids their age or you risk the social implications that homeschooling can bring out.
2006-09-16 03:20:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never understood why anyone would want to home school their children. There is a whole world out there - and my feeling is that we need to learn to interact with each other from a very young age. Yes, all the issues you identified in your post do exist, but there are really positive experiences to be experienced also. But, experiencing and learning to handle both the negative and positive experiences are part of what helps us as we mature.
To me, home schooling shelters children from learning about the world, and vastly limits the opportunities children can have to learn more about themselves and how they fit in the world.
Eventually, we all have to just get out there and experience life. I think a child who is allowed to start that journey in pre-school or kindergarten is going to have many more valuable life-experiences and interaction skills in varied situations than a teenager who was home schooled during their entire educational years (through high school).
From time to time I see examples of, or hear about home schooling examples and I pretty much just cringe when I do. I'm sure there are many reasons parents or caregivers might decide to home school their children. I just hope parents are basing their decision more on what's right for their children and their children's future.
2006-09-16 04:17:48 · answer #2 · answered by loveblue 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am sometimes tempted to homeschool. However, school does teach children the facts of life ie how to get on with other people. I think this is more important than any gcse. Unless it is for a serious problem, children need to learn how to cope with other people, their beliefs, their ways. Otherwise how are they going to cope in their adult life?
2006-09-16 03:16:00 · answer #3 · answered by True Blue Brit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think kids need social interaction. But then I also did really well when I completed the last few years of school at home
2006-09-16 03:14:41 · answer #4 · answered by jam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No because i wouldnt have learned the social skills i learnt goin 2 school. Social skills are 1 of the best things u can have in life.
2006-09-16 03:11:42 · answer #5 · answered by 13Special 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, my mother was a teacher who had no patience with teaching me. And. it's important for a kid to have interaction with other kids
2006-09-16 03:12:07 · answer #6 · answered by beez 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my case.. no.. because my parents were not educated... but if I had my teachers to come to my house to teach.. yes.
2006-09-16 03:13:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, i liked going to the experience.
life is always full or good and bad.
you must learn to live with it
2006-09-16 03:12:14 · answer #8 · answered by native 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no it would have held me back loads
2006-09-16 04:39:51 · answer #9 · answered by mesun1408 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋