Homeschooling: Your Views, Please

[Steven_R]

With home schooling, the children don't get socialization and they don't have trained, educated, professional teachers. However, I think a private school would be preferable to a public school because it is smaller with a better teacher to student ratio. But, I would check out the school carefully before deciding on that. Some public schools are better than private schools. I would never send my child to a religious school, and in the US, most private schools are religious based.

People have the belief that bullying, cliques, and other social problems do not occur in private schools: this is not the fact at all. These things occur in all schools, public and private. However, these are also things that occur in the real world and children need to learn how to deal with them. I would not subject my child to a violent or vicious school experience, but home schooling puts them in an over protective environment that doesn't allow social skills to develop, skills that include coping with reallity.

What about when the public school just can't provide what the child needs? I'm not talking about mainstreaming disabled kids, but rather special cases. A kid I knew growing up was super smart and when we were in sixth grade he was doing calculus in his spare time and was just bored all day. He wasn't really old enough to go to college, but just wasted in the public school system and his parents ended up taking him out to home school.

Now if he didn't fit the one-size-fits-all education paradigm, should he be forced to stay anyways just to socialize him? What about kids who are musically inclined; should they be home-schooled to put an emphasis on a music education if they are just stagnating in a public school?

 

[Cecilie1200]

Im all for it. Parents have to do what is best for their children.

I think that's really the point. Education is not "one size fits all", just like pretty much everything else in life is not. There should be choice and variety in education to allow for the wide variety that exists in people, and the choice should be made by those with the most skin the game: the parents.

 

[Cecilie1200]

Sometimes perception is colored by reality. In my case, I have watched my niece home school her three sons. It doesn't seem to have worked very well. They have very little ability to interact with anyone outside of their "home school" group. They are socially awkward and seem to have very little confidence in dealing with situation they don't normally encounter. They tend to be overly protected and have no skills being developed that they could use to get a JOB.

They do know a lot about bugs and cartoons.

Not a fan of homeschooling or vouchers.

The most successful people I know went to public schools.

Socially awkward kids?!?!?!!?

that never happens in public school!

You can't POSSIBLY be implying that the little savages that pass for our youngest generations now are somehow not the epitome of all a parent could hope for in social skills and civilization, could you?

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Im all for it. Parents have to do what is best for their children.

I think that's really the point. Education is not "one size fits all", just like pretty much everything else in life is not. There should be choice and variety in education to allow for the wide variety that exists in people, and the choice should be made by those with the most skin the game: the parents.

The child has the most skin in the game actually. We call that "logic". I learned it at a public school.

 

[Cecilie1200]

I was homeschooled as a child.

There are arguments made for and against it.

Would you please share your views on it here?

Homeschooling that allows a standardized curriculum taught by qualified parents teamed with social interaction and without pursuit of any personal sociological and political agendas is acceptable.

Rarely today is that possible.

Interesting how you think you get a vote in what's "acceptable" for a child you didn't give birth to, don't know, and have no legal responsibility for. What other things that are none of your frigging business do you feel the need to pass irrelevant approval on?

 

[SmedlyButler]

It works a hundred times better than union based schools but only if the parents care enough to follow the curriculum.

Well, I guess that's probably as true as the rest of the facts in your anti-union narrative.

 

[thanatos144]

u can't teach what you dont know yourself, and most parents don't know jack about squat. that's why they are parents,normally

That can be said for 75% of the union teachers.

 

[SmedlyButler]

I was homeschooled as a child.

There are arguments made for and against it.

Would you please share your views on it here?

How does being schooled by the Christian Liberty Academy equal home schooling. Was it a curriculum you were taught at home or something?

 

[thanatos144]

Im all for it. Parents have to do what is best for their children.

Most definitely.....Especially now with the government thinking they always know whats best.

 

[thanatos144]

I suppose that, if you are determined that your child should never be any more educated than you are, homeschooling is a wonderful idea.

What bull. You think when you reach adulthood you stop learning? Not everything needs a diploma as proof of intelligence.

 

[thanatos144]

most parents don't know jack about squat. that's why they are parents,normally

How do you know that?

I am guessing that in like most liberals the poster thinks smart people kill their unborn....

 

[thanatos144]

I was homeschooled as a child.

There are arguments made for and against it.

Would you please share your views on it here?

Homeschooling that allows a standardized curriculum taught by qualified parents teamed with social interaction and without pursuit of any personal sociological and political agendas is acceptable.

Rarely today is that possible.

who deems someone is qualified???? Seeing I had to teach my 17 year old son what Communism was tells me your thinking is flawed.

 

[thanatos144]

You're a dope.



Recent statistics from The College Board and the American College Testing Program (ACT) indicate that home schoolers are exceeding the national average test scores on both the SAT and the ACT college entrance exams. In 1999, the 2219 students who identified themselves as home schooled students on the SAT test, scored an average of 1083 (verbal 548, math 535), 67 points above the national average of 1016. A perfect SAT score is 1600. Also in 1999, 3616 home school students taking the ACT scored an average of 22.7, compared to the national average of 21, a perfect score being 36.
College-bound Home Schoolers Make Headlines (HSLDA | National Center News)

So, homeschoolers are better than average....good to know that

What you don't know is how those exact same students would have done if the attended a public school. My money says they would be better than average students

I'm not sure that the statistics are right in the first place. I remember being in classes with kids who were never going to college, some not going to finish HS or even have their freedom much longer, but their scores get lumped in with Straight A students. It's hard to say that average Homeschooled kids are necessarily better when the aggregate of High School Kids includes those kids actively bringing everyone else's scores down.

LOl how is it that public schools producing more dummies then home schools invalidate the study???? LOL If anything it strengthens the findings.

 

[Esmeralda]

I suppose that, if you are determined that your child should never be any more educated than you are, homeschooling is a wonderful idea.

You're a dope.



Recent statistics from The College Board and the American College Testing Program (ACT) indicate that home schoolers are exceeding the national average test scores on both the SAT and the ACT college entrance exams. In 1999, the 2219 students who identified themselves as home schooled students on the SAT test, scored an average of 1083 (verbal 548, math 535), 67 points above the national average of 1016. A perfect SAT score is 1600. Also in 1999, 3616 home school students taking the ACT scored an average of 22.7, compared to the national average of 21, a perfect score being 36.
College-bound Home Schoolers Make Headlines (HSLDA | National Center News)

Okay, but let's be VERY clear about this: we don't know how many home schooled kids are sitting for SAT and are college bound. My estimation would be that most home schooled kids are not college bound and don't take SAT tests.

 

[elektra]

our educational system needs a revolution, as does much in our government, both kind of go hand in hand, a great education means nothing when the government has done everything to ship our jobs to China and every other third world hell hole.

if we can not accept this fact, there is no need for education

 

[OKTexas]

u can't teach what you dont know yourself, and most parents don't know jack about squat. that's why they are parents,normally

That can be said for 75% of the union teachers.

Yep, when I was a recruiter in the Army teachers were notorious for testing poorly. The only person that actually got the highest possible score was a 7th grade drop out. They made him take it again, but the score on a different version, didn't change, 99th percentile. Teachers usually scored in the high 30's to the mid 50's.

 

[rightwinger]

u can't teach what you dont know yourself, and most parents don't know jack about squat. that's why they are parents,normally

That can be said for 75% of the union teachers.

Yep, when I was a recruiter in the Army teachers were notorious for testing poorly. The only person that actually got the highest possible score was a 7th grade drop out. They made him take it again, but the score on a different version, didn't change, 99th percentile. Teachers usually scored in the high 30's to the mid 50's.

I say bullshit

 

[Wake]

I was homeschooled as a child.

There are arguments made for and against it.

Would you please share your views on it here?

How does being schooled by the Christian Liberty Academy equal home schooling. Was it a curriculum you were taught at home or something?

They had sent me homeschooling packages with all of my schoolwork and books in them.

 

[Unkotare]

My estimation would be that most home schooled kids are not college bound and don't take SAT tests.

Why? Based on what?

 

[thanatos144]

My estimation would be that most home schooled kids are not college bound and don't take SAT tests.

Why? Based on what?

Oh her wishful thinking LOL