I just want to know which you think is better. No comments on how public school might be better. Please stick to the topic. Home schoolers and private schoolers only please!!!!
2007-01-17 12:47:36 · 14 answers · asked by Married and loving it!!!! 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Home Schooling
Both. i home school one child who wants to be and the other one wants to go to school. so it is really what is best for the child and the parent.
2007-01-17 13:34:46 · answer #1 · answered by s_woolverton 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think it depends on the school and the child involved. No one can make a blanket statement that homeschooling is always better or private school is always better. There are some private schools in my area I would not want my children to attend that have 30 kids in a classroom. I think that is a few too many. They also are Baptist and have strict rules against the children listening to rock music which my dh is a fan of, so I would feel like a hypocrite if they attended. There is another prep school in town that is very pressured and has their children attend summer school re: the SAT and math improvement. This is for average kids, not kids that need remediation. There are also some schools in town that are excellent, although those have waiting lists and I've heard you have to sign up when the child is born or a toddler (so I'm too late anyway)!
Another aspect of the decision should be which is better for the individual child. My children are special needs, with autism spectrum and dyslexia and the private schools in our area don't have special programs or support for these. So private school would be difficult. If a child was not special needs, that would probably be a better fit.
In our area the private schools are $10,000 or more a year and that is for one child. I have two. I can't imagine working full-time and having to hand over the majority of my paycheck to a private school. But I'm sure lots of people do that. I'd rather save up for them to go to college. Private school is probably best I would think if you have a good income or two good incomes.
2007-01-17 20:08:30 · answer #2 · answered by Karen 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's going to depend, not only on the school, but on each family. While we could afford to send our kids to private schools here if I were working full-time, the idea just seems preposterous to us at this point. Homeschooling is our first choice.
Now, while the private schools here that we would consider, if we ever were to, are better academically than public schools, I'm not sure that there's really anything better about them than what I can provide my kids at home, at least for the time being. My kids would have to go a certain pace at school, not their own. They would be bound by the school's curriculum instead of having some freedom in following their own interests. Socially, they'd still be stuck with the same immature kids each day instead of having the current regular mix of ages. They would undoubtedly spend most of their days quiet in their seats instead of interacting with each other, other people and me. Add to that, we would not have as much family time. During their formative years, this just does not seem like the best way for them to grow up.
2007-01-17 14:11:04 · answer #3 · answered by glurpy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We home schooled our nine year old until this year. He thrived on our educational philosophy (vaguely Montessori, not quite unschooling - focus on math skills with Saxon math - my husband insisted). When he went to a private parochial school at the beginning of this year, he experienced nothing but trauma. In spite of assurances that he would be evaluated for an IEP, and that the teachers and staff would consider his background and help him adjust to the bureaucracy that is traditional education - he was subjected to ridicule and debasement. The final straw was right before Christmas when the teacher was screaming at him in front of the classroom. We had gone in several times to discuss the problems our son was having adjusting, and we were consistently blown off - after all - they are "professionals" and MUST know more about teaching than we do. Instead of addressing the problems our son was having (boredom primarily) the teacher and principal insisted that our son was just BAD.
We tried to enroll him in another school instead of going back to homeschooling. He burst into tears, and was scared to death that the people in the new school would yell at him too. So now, we have enrolled him in Kumon to get his math skills back (went from pre-algebra to not being able to add while he was enrolled) and went back to our Montessori approach in everything else. He is slowly coming back to the child he used to be. He picked up so many snotty behaviors while he was at the school. At home, we can make sure his social learning environment is something we can live with.
2007-01-18 03:44:25 · answer #4 · answered by dizney_93 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I have been homeschooled for 10 years and I love it!
I like the fact that I get the one on one attention that I need
especially when I need more time understanding a problem I can always go over it again without holding up the class.
I can make my own schedule and I don't have to go to school from 8-3:30 like everyone else. If ive had a long night I can rest before having to be at school.
Also I don't have to deal with bad cafeteria food becuase I can make my own lunch.
homeschool is the best!!!!!!!!!!
2007-01-17 13:30:09 · answer #5 · answered by simpli_cute 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I attended private school for one year to get out of another year of forced busing. This was back in the early 70's, so believe me, my generation suffered first. A good private school is better than a crummy inner-city school by a mile, but looking back, I wish that my intellectual parents -- both college grads -- had taught me at home. My mom is great with English & Spanish, and mathematics; my dad had majored in Philosophy in college, so I would have had a well-rounded education.
Having said that, unless you parents are also college graduates with a variety of usable knowledge, I would suggest you send your kids to a reputable private &/or parochial school. My mom, for instance, attended convent school where there were no boys to distract them, uniforms were mandatory, and they all got on useful learning tracks, such as nursing and accounting.
2007-01-17 14:22:38 · answer #6 · answered by mabster60 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I went to a private elementary school and I'm telling you, go to a private school. Your child will be able to make friends which is always worth the money. The one friend I have that was home schooled said he would rather stay in a private school just because of the friends.
2007-01-17 12:51:46 · answer #7 · answered by MATT J 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I even have been in public college for 8 years, and the trustworthy certainty is that it fairly is ridiculously undesirable and frightening. little ones delivered drugs and knifes to college, and that i actually exchange into in a surprisingly ritzy one. i'm in my 2d year of homeschooling, and that's outstanding! there is lots greater concentration on the failings that are significant in life; especially faith. i be attentive to better than I ever found out in my time at college, and that i'm actively partaking in and information the worldwide that we live in as we communicate. In our homeschool group, we debate politics, help the community, and have purely as lots relaxing because of the fact the wide-unfold public schoolers, besides the undeniable fact that it fairly is all sparkling. We nonetheless hear to track and stuff, and we aren't all dowdy and unsocialized. To be trustworthy, there isn't improving the ambience in public colleges without God. The media has polluted the minds of childrens everywhere, and what they ought to care approximately is what they push aside the main. i don't be attentive to if it fairly is effectual in direction of your task, yet i wish so!
2016-10-31 09:55:02 · answer #8 · answered by gennusa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Public school because you get to see all the freaks of nature. You still see a little bit of that in private school. I would go to private school before I were homeschooled
2007-01-17 15:44:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I guess it depends on your motivation/goals for your child's education. People who send their children to private school may do so to ensure that their education is superior or to ensure their religious viewpoint is taught. People who choose to homeschool do so for similar reasons, or for other reasons: to have flexibility in schedules (you can actually vacation when the entire rest of the world isn't on vacation, too), when the child doesn't learn well in a "schooled" environment (my son used to tell me he'd rather die than have to get up and go to school in the morning), to have an opportunity to learn from life experiences instead of books, to spend time as a family instead of sending your kids away and only seeing them when they are cranky and whiny and overtired.
So, for me and my family, I vote for home school.
2007-01-17 14:38:00 · answer #10 · answered by someone's mom 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋