For those who object to homeschooling: What research have you done on Homeschooling?

Question

A lot of people who come in this section object to homeschooling, but I wonder how much research they have done.

This website has links to all kinds of research in case you are interested in the facts about homeschooling:

http://www.hslda.org/research/default.asp

redranger

Thank you for illustrating my point

redranger

Your ignorant statements are propoganda. Propoganda always makes a bad argument.

la buena bruja

Thanks for your honesty

You might want to chek out the report:

"Homeschooling Grows Up" on the website above

Many Employers are actively recruiting Homeschooled employees because they get along well with their coworkers regardless of background.

Because homeschoolers make friends from different places (activities, neighborhood, homeschool groups, church, community service activities) they actually have a more diverse experience than their public school counterparts.

Answer 1

My biggest problem with homeschooling isn't that the basic subjects aren't being taught. It is that students are not exposed to the "real world" of diverse populations and social situations. Granted, not all of the experiences in school are pleasant, but they are what goes on in the world. Once these homeschooled children leave home for college or jobs, they're often ill equipped for the realities of every day living, in spite of the fact that they may do well academically.

Answer 2

As a former teacher, I used to object to homeschooling, because I thought kids belonged in a regular school. When my sister and brother-in-law decided to home school, I decided to research the subject with an open mind. The result was that my opinion changed completely and since then I've been all for it.

Both of my nephews were homeschooled from kindergarten through high school graduation. Both have since graduated from college where they did very well.

Answer 3

Here's other research on homeschoolers, not from an organization that seeks to promote one form of education over another: http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/shared/readmore.asp?sNav=pb&id=253

And I have to say the answers don't surprise me: people judging homeschooling based on nothing or their little experience or experience with only one 'type' of homeschooler. Those people probably have no idea how many other homeschoolers they've come in contact with that they simply didn't know were homeschooled because they don't fit in with the stereotype.

People aren't interested in the facts. They just want to feel they're right.

And fwiw, not that it's going to change closed minds, my kids are not in isolation, none of the MANY homeschooled kids we know (or at the least are acquainted with) are kept in isolation (many are involved in a ton of extra-curricular activities) and since NOBODY gets held back a grade here, then no, homeschooling parents don't do that. However, they are very open about where their kids abilities are, saying that they might be in grade 3, doing grade 3 math but still working at a grade 2 level in reading or writing, or of course the other scenario, that they're in grade 3, reading at a grade 5 level, writing around a grade 3 level, doing grade 4 math...

I find it rather humourous that people with limited experience are still absolutely convinced that they're right despite people with more experience sharing things that are completely opposite. C'est la vie, I guess.

Answer 4

I have two issues with homeschooling.

One is that too much of the available resources revolves around religion, and not enough education. (Not all, just a lot of it. And many of the religious homeschooling outfits I have looked into [like Abeka] are just horrid. For all the claims, the program is very poor and the science is so badly taught that kids would learn more by just skipping it rather than learning the misinformation that is given.)

The second is that homeschooling requires lots of time that many/most parents don't have, and lots of education that many people do not have. Try teaching a child algebra when you don't understand it yourself. Knowledge of science is very weak, and parents who do not have a good background in it are too easily convinced by the nonsense of programs like Abeka.

Answer 5

mainly because most parents are too busy for their kids and wont listen to what their kids want and cant simply research a school get feedback and make effort to their kids goals. Shame for the majority of the parents. I am a kid that is home schooled and do have all the subjects that I need to graduate. Obviously for those who are obecting to home schooling, you need to get a grip on life and maybe you dont know much on what your kids learn in school. From my views I learn more in home school and do learn the "basic Subjects". Hate to tell you parents who wont give the time or day to their kids education or their goals, but they have more likely chance graduating at an online school. Public schools haha o boy.... suck..... the teachers can be jerks and shrewds and do not spend much time with the students one on one. Ya maybe you unfit objectifying parents did not realize what their kids want or what they go through in school nor probably realized the more damage you do by sending them there with the drugs, and groups and ignorance that floats the halls where kids are bullies with so called teachers who take sides...

Answer 6

You do your artwork at your very own %. . My boy became homestead schooled for 2 years and became an honor student . the instructor will call and spot how he's doing as quickly as a week . All homework that needs to be checked with the aid of the instructor is sent to him with the aid of mail ... homestead education is the perfect thank you to do it in my opinion .... you could trip and take the computing device so the student can do homestead artwork and revel interior the family participants !!!!

Answer 7

Actually, I do not object homeschooling. I am teaching my 7 year old at home now. It is the best thing that I could have done

Answer 8

Well, I have formed a sour opinion of home schooling based on my experiences with the home schoolers I know
Most of the current home school kids I know, are from my Saturday morning classes. I have stated my observations many times in previous answers, plz check my history, briefly I found them hard to engage and they needed too many directions- but hey its a Saturday morning class in Detroit
I know a few 'home schooled' adults, in my 'church' they weren't allowed to socialize, they were forcibly kept home
I have heard some horrible stories through the media, of ppl keeping their kids at home under the guise of HS

In general, I don't see ANY advantage to the student or the parents in home schooling. Sure, there are studies of the WILLING HSers that demonstrate some very good kids, but if I could cherry-pick too, I could produce a study that would show the Detroit schools being world class (and we both know they AIN'T) and I'm pretty certain these kids would have done just as well i public or private school anyways. Seems like a lot of extra effort and sacrifice wasted just to maintain isolation. It seems very callus. IMO it strikes me of a superiority complex (Sunni-Shiite or Hutu-Tutsis, Aryans) It robs the community of students and parents of excellent students and parents.
And I cannot imagine, or heard, of a HSing parent flunking or holding back their kid. I wouldn't expect a parent to be that objective, that's crushing
I still don't get it, but its a free country and their your kids
Why you need a defense association anyway?
oh, my favorite color is blue, feel free to disagree with that also

Answer 9

I've been home schooled my last 2 years of high school it ruins u socially

Answer 10

i havent done research at all, i just judge all homeschoolers on the homeschooled kid i know, who is a freak.