What is your opinion on Home-Schooling?

Question

Instead of going to a Public or a Private school, some parents choose to teach their kids at home to shield them from bullying and other bad things that go on at schools. Most of the time, the child ends up being too shielded and will have a heart-attack once he finds out what the world is like.

This is what I think of it, I am a home-schooler myself yet I have gone to public schools and chose to school myself at home.

(Home schooling is real schooling, real text books that certain home-schooling companies send you yet all you do is learn at home. Some people love it and some people do not, what is your opinion?)

Answer 1

I have Home Schooled all three of my children. The oldest two also went to some private schools and some public schools as well. My third child has been entirely Home Schooled. My question is this, who ever thought that getting together fifteen hundred to two thousand children, with about 75 or so adults to watch and teach them would make for a better education.? Public schools are nothing but subjecting your children to an institutionalized setting, and I would avoid it if at all possible. Private schools get quite a few troubled students whose parents have money or vouchers, and then your child is still subjected to distraction and such instead of learning to enjoy learning. I now have two High Honor Students, National Honor Society, and Who's Who Among American High School Students. High SAT scores for my oldest two as well, [ which are both in U.S.F.] and a fifth grader that reads college level. All three, schooled at home. Works for us!

Answer 2

It is great and the family bonds more when home schooling. But the majority of families doing it do not have a clue as to how to teach.So many of the at-home students are behind their age groups who are in school.The parents do not monitor them and check their work.I agree with it if the parents are taught and checked on also. And if the family is in a group that has playtime, goes on trips,and has team sports in the curriculm so the kids can learn to get along with others and learn teamwork. There are just too many dyfunctional families trying this but without any training. I have a friend who teaches her 4 kids at home and she knows exactly what she is doing because she was a public school teacher before having her own family.Her children are succeeding with this. There needs to be a better way that kids and families are monitored regularly so these kids do not get behind.

Answer 3

Some people home school because classrooms are full and public schooled kids often fall behind for lack of attention from teachers. Most home schooled kids are very involved in sports, church and other activities that are more than enough to make up for any socialization they miss by going to public school. Any homeschoolers i have ever met have been perfectly normal socially and usually better behaved and more mature than public schooled kids. Not to mention colleges are now starting to choose homeschoolers over public schooled children. I think its a great idea for people who can afford for one parent to stay home and teach. After all if you have children shouldn't you be the one to raise them instead of teachers, bus drivers and all the kids they learn who knows what from all day long.

Answer 4

I think home education is awesome, but it isn't for everyone. :-)

Oh and uh, Miss Priss....LMAO!!! The grocery store, bank, mall, fast food restaurants, etc. are all places that ANYONE who gets out of their home (including homeschoolers) has to wait in line for or their turn. And what do you mean, "They don't work with others"? What planet are you from? Many homeschoolers work and hold down jobs and volunteer. I think that you need to get out little more , the world is oh so much bigger than the little walls in which you are confined 5 days a week, for 180 days a year...talk about isolated! The world is so much bigger than you. The world doesn't revolve around school or sports, unless one is in school. ;-)

BTW...Speaking of all this "shielding and protecting" that we homeschoolers supposedly do...Should we start shipping our American daughters off to parts Africa where the girls are raped and beaten by grown men? Should we send our American boys there to be trained to kill, rape and beat others? I mean, that country is part of the real world too right? How about we make all the people living in their cozy suburban homes move to gang infiltrated neighborhoods so they can be prepared for that "just in case"? Aren't they "shielding and protecting" their children from those harsh but oh so real realities of living here in the states? How ever will children know how to handle such a reality unless they experience it? How about all the people who live in a nice neighborhood with the best schools start forcing their children to go to schools in neighborhoods that are worse off so that their children can experience that "reality" because after all, it is the "real world".

My point is that everyone's reality is different. I grew up in an all white town with one stop-light, it was culture shock when I moved to a big city but I adjusted. We had all of one murder there my entire 18 years of life, but I am now living in a city with much crime and I adjusted just fine. My children are out and about with me in the city in which we live, where a mile up the road a woman was robbed at gunpoint at the movie store we frequent. Across the street from me live a nice lesbian couple, something that I NEVER saw as a kid growing up in a small town. We have Asians next door that have more than 10 people living together in the same house. My neighborhood has whites, blacks, hispanics, asians, all the races; please tell me exactly how my kids CANNOT help but learn and notice other cultures being that we LIVE WITH and are SURROUNDED by other cultures every single day? My children can and do, no matter how much naysayers ignorantly spout off that only in school can they learn about the world.

Answer 5

I think homeschooling is a great option for those willing to undertake it, especially for those whose kids are suffering in an inadequate public system.

Most of the homeschooling parents I know did not start homeschooling to shield their children, but actually pulled their kids out of school. For most, it was academic reasons--be it the child wasn't being challenged, was struggling and the school wouldn't help enough, the child has specific issues that the schools were not handling well, etc. I know at least a couple who were tired of spending 3 hours a night helping their child with homework. If they were going to spend 3 hours a day working with their child, they reasoned, they might as well be the teacher. For some, it was personality changes they saw in their children brought on by the daily interaction with certain kids. For others, there were issues with how the teacher was treating the child. One poor mom I met had had her son in a program for children with behaviour problems. She discovered that as punishment her son, a claustrophobic child, was being locked in a room the size of a janitor's storage. This was in a public school.

I was one who saw the issues in school ahead of time, because I was teaching, and decided that wasn't a suitable environment for my children to be raised in nor was it the ideal place to allow the individual child to learn best. It's not about shielding or protecting, but deciding what is going to be a part of who they are since the environment can affect so much. It's like choosing the type of tv and movies they can watch or the food they can eat. School did not seem like the ideal place for my kids to develop. And since dh, also a teacher, and I were prepared to take on homeschooling, we didn't have to be those parents who complain about the system yet send their kids every day--I've met lots of those. We took charge and decided to raise and educate our children ourselves.

I think how homeschooling plays out probably differs from area to area. Here, most homeschoolers are wildly busy and doing things with others a lot. Parents are usually quite frank with what goes on in school and in life. For the most part, the kids I know are involved in lots of things in the real world, much of the time activities that have nothing to do with homeschooling. There is no shock for them upon entering the real world because they are living it day-in and day-out.

Answer 6

I am all "for" home schooling, private schooling, or parochial schooling. Hopefully there is some computer schooling taught/learned at home as well. As far as shock is concerned in getting into the outside world...people do adjust. There must be some travel or communication with other people included in the learning.

Answer 7

I'm an ex-homeschooler too, and while it may be a way of preventing bullying or other "bad things," I agree that it isn't always good.

Part of going to school (public or private) is learning to interact with other people, how the real world functions, and also about learning to stand up for who you are. Being homeschooled you never really learn about this stuff since you aren't really required to wait your turn for help, or work with other people.

Answer 8

I think that people who are home school get to miss out on the social event that take place in a public or private school. Which one better that depend on how much knowledge your parents are. Some people would rather have that one-on-one learning then they would go to school. Some student even do better at home school then they would if they wore going go to a public. It all depends on the person.

Answer 9

I think homeschooling is not a bad idea. But they need some kind of social interaction with other kids, otherwise when college comes around they'll be totally out of place. Also parents shouldn't shield they're kids. How will they know how to deal with people?

Answer 10

I have never met a home-schooled person who turned out
"normal". the parents always seem to have their own agenda with what they teach the kids. Instead of learning a board range of subjects from different points of view, home schoolers always seem to be be extremely conservative or very liberal. And their social skills seem to be a bit off. I wouldn't recommend home schooling to anyone unless the public school in the area are very bad and no private school was available.