What are the negative effects of home schooling?

Question

I don't understant home schooling. I would think the child will lake basic social and development skills. Theres 2 sides to every story. let me hear them

Answer 1

Hi, I home school my 3 kids.
First of all it is just a myth that there is no social life for them
They go to sporting events at least 3 times per week. There are social outings and field trips just for home school groups that we are apart of. Also there are home school proms, and dances that a LARGE number of kids attend we are talking 100's of people. My children interact with other kids everyday.
Home school children on average get into college at a younger age. I have a friend and all 3 of her kids have been in college by the time they were 16.
I want to make sure my children are learning, and getting that one on one attention that the classroom at a school can not provide. If anything extra i needed I will put them in some where like Kumon for a couple weeks to make sure the material is sticking, that is one on one there as well!!
Thanks!

Answer 2

I was home-educated for nearly two years, from when I was 12 to when I was 13, and the main negative effect it had on me was boredom. Although it is true that you can join clubs and that kind of thing, it still doesn't fill your day, and in the end I remember just feeling totally bored and miserable, spending most of my allowance on tickets to the movies, which I went to practically every other day (if you are considering home education, I have to tell you that movies are a great source of enlightenment). Also, spending so much time with your parents, especially when you're older, can be very dull and depressing. As far as actual education goes, home-schooling is probably far better than going to your average public school. The lessons at public school are boring, the kids don't pay any attention, and you generally just don't learn anything at all. If you are educated at home, in many cases, you get to learn what you want, so it all seems more interesting. In answer to your question about due dates and cheating, most parents who home-school their children do not set them tests or give them 'homework', so cheating is out of the question. As for socialization, most home-schooled kids know lots of other kids, and have a relatively good social life, so that isn't really much of an issue. They usually either socialize with a network of other home-schooled children, or just make friends with the other kids on their block. Very few home-schooled children are bullied, in contrast to ordinary schools, where most students are bullied at some point in their life, so this can be a plus, since, contrary to popular belief, being bullied does not actually make you into a stronger, happier, or more secure person later in life. All in all, I think home-school is no worse than real school. Being home-schooled for the short time I was, and then going back to public school again, opened my eyes to the fact that most American public schools really are rock-bottom for everything from education to socialization. Still, let me say, if you are considering home-schooling your child, make sure you ask them first!

Answer 3

There are ups and downs to both systems.

Xenophobes will be Xenophobes whether they are homeschooling or brick schooling.

Basic social development is firmed up before age 6. The child is type A or type B, passive, agressive, belligerant, a cry baby, a pouter by the start of first grade.

There is no social interacting lessons. When an adult has problems they go to the boss and try to get the person fired, transferred or they send out resumes and find a new job.

You can't do that in brick school. You cannot transfer to another school nor get a kid easily kicked out of school and when you do you face the might come back with a gun and shoot people over it.

This is the most common reason for school shootings. Angry young men who are social outcasts from the cliques who often get suspended who come back with a weapon and a grudge.

That something you won't really find in home school.

We have a college shooting just a while ago from a social outcast. We had a high school shooting in Michigan recentaly, another in Ohio and most recently I think it was a New Jersey or Pennsylvaiann kid who was arrested for possessing 30 pellet guns and two real guns and his mother was arrested for buying him the real gun, which is father couldn't do because he's a former felon with an armed robbery charge.

This is your SCHOOL socialization element.

I was under the impression kids when to school for an education, not to text each other and socialize.

Answer 4

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What are the negative effects of home schooling?
I don't understant home schooling. I would think the child will lake basic social and development skills. Theres 2 sides to every story. let me hear them

Answer 5

I myself am home schooled, weather or not the child has social skills really depends on the child. I for one am very shy so even if I was in a public school I would probably have only a few friends. I still have friends and have a social life. Compared to my friends that go to a public school I have a better grasp of the concepts that have been taught to me than they do.
Public schools have a tendency to just go with the medium learning speed, holding those back who could achieve much more, while children who learn slower are getting left behind and get bad grades or just barely get by.
If your child wants to go to college then there is a better chance they will stay if they have been home schooled because the professor is not going to be there telling you to get your work done. You have to be self motivated to do your work and that is where many students have trouble.
Not to mention time management is another major conflict students from public schools have because in public schools you don't really have to have time management skills yet as long as the work gets done while in college and home school you must have time management skills to keep yourself organized and sane.

Answer 6

Many children in regular schools have social problems. I'm a case in point. Home schooling doesn't mean the child can't have friends and socialize.

Regular schools can be a bad influence on a child when they are subject to peer pressure and other negative influences that tend to take away from the top priority of education.

I dream I can have a job in the future that wold allow me to home school my children when I have some.

Answer 7

First off my 8 year old who has never stepped foot into a classroom knows the difference between a place you swim and something you don't have. She also knows that all sentences start with a capital letter. Not bad for a kid who has never stepped foot into a school.

She does however lack in hearing the stories of her friends making out/having sex/doing drugs. She doesn't understand what an Emo is, and thinks that people who cut themselves are pretty stupid.

She socializes quite well with others - homeschooled and public schooled alike.

She gets one on one tutoring and knows how to work independantly and in teams. She knows how to open a book - and (egads) enjoys doing so! Oh and she has a dictionary, and knows how to use it. Unlike the middle school students my friend teaches - she knows the difference between a glossary and an index. So what is she lacking? Being a sheep in a flock. . .

Answer 8

I am homeschooled right now so I can tell you both sides of the story! The good side is I don't have to get up as early as everyone else, plus I get to work A LOT fast then they do and will have a lot more time off in the summer!! plus I don't have to see those kids that are total jerks and everything. I can go anywhere i want at anytime of the day which I wouldn't be able to do if I was in school!
the bad side is I don't get to see my friends everyday of the week! but we do email each other and get together!! plus I do go to a lot of home sports games where I get to see everyone and I go into the school for violin!
I don't think I will lack basic social skills cause I have been to school all my life except for this year because I just started homeschooling (I'm in 9th grade)
but someone who has never been to school at all might lack social skills! that is why getting involved in sports or other activities is good for someone who is homeschooled or considering it!

Answer 9

The last respondent obviously couldn't be bothered to read the previous answers! We home-educate in the UK. We regularly meet up with other families and my kids have loads of interaction with other children. They get to fight and argue the same as kids in school! Of course they don't encounter bullying but then, I hardly did in school either, nor did my eldest, schooled, child. I find it very odd that people think that bullying is a positive thing! We also teach independence - it is very important that children can function in the outside world. Mine are doing that all the time, rather than being shut up in the artificial world of school. It is well documented that home-schooled kids are more likely to be academically ahead of their schooled counterparts and also more able to problem-solve and think laterally. Negatives? Nah!

PS We are also good at spelling

Answer 10

I homeschooled my son. Just because he is homeschooled did not mean, in any way, that he did not socialize. As a matter of fact he socialized with his friends after they came home from public school. He went to art classes and was a member of the Boys Club.He went to and had sleepovers. Homeschool,like public school, is what you make of it. My son, who is 19 is a well mannered young man in college. He is also a black belt candidate in Taekwondo. I wish that I had home schooled his sisters.