Homeschooling has become popular over the past years. What are your thought about this trend?

Question

Homeschooling has become popular over the past years. What are your thought about this trend?

Answer 1

sometimes is about expanses like college if you take it on line it will save you allot of money room expanses plus food and parking plus Gas and you have time to go to work come home anytime you go to class. look at the economic right now no body want to spend that much money I don't my fiance even sold his business.

Answer 2

I think it's great. I really wasn't for it at first, because when I was growing up very few people home-schooled. I was much more in favor of parochial school.  My husband, however, was in favor of it so I began to explore home-schooling more seriously.

To my surprise, the authors I read raised questions that challenged my assumptions. (It's really strange that I was against home-schooling at first, considering that as a historian, I knew that most upper class children in England and America were once home-schooled for at least part of their education.)

I think the home-schooling movement is sending a strong message to our government and those who control the educational system (and I DO have great respect for the many dedicated teachers who daily plug away in a dispiriting and often down-right dangerous environment.)  Institutionalized schooling may NOT be the best for all children. Furthermore,  we are not sheep and we refuse to allow our kids to be used as educational guinea pigs and indoctrinated with whatever propaganda is popular.  

Once the schools were the beacons of learning, culture and at least lip-service to morality if not religion in the community. Now, school is the place where children are often introduced to a cesspool of vice, substance abuse, promiscuity/prostitution, profanity and violent behavior that most adults would not care to experience.  Correct grammar, writing, hard work and even knowledge itself is pushed aside in favor of political correctness, "self-esteem" and athletics. This ultimately drags our children down rather than empowering them to achieve to their potential.

We home-schooling families refuse to allow our bright children to be stifled because it's unpopular to be different, and we refuse to allow our more challenged learners to be labeled. We refuse to allow any of our children to become just numbers in a system that really cares nothing for them or pawns in some kind of social-engineering game. We don't want our little children to look like street-walkers, our pre-teens to pout for expensive shoes and clothes just because it boosts the economy or our teenagers to breed like rabbits simply because their teacher told that "they can't help themselves."  We want our children to be different, intelligent and offer a refreshing alternative to the current culture.

It's parents' responsibility to see that their children have enough knowledge and wisdom so as not to be seduced by demagogues, misleading statistics, and advertising agencies.  Home-schooling helps to accomplish this and I hope more and more families will lobby to make it easier and more acceptable.

Answer 3

I think it is good that more and more of the myths and stigmas of homeschooling are being let go of, and that more people are considering all of their educational options.

Answer 4

That is should send a serious signal to the educational establishment .... the ps system is broke and needs a serious overhaul! The NEA is hostile to homeschooling because it's a loss of money for them but as we've all seen throwing more and more money into the educational system hasn't done any good!

PS can not possibly hope to give students the one on one advantages of homeschooling and at present they aren't truly ps but government schools anyhow.

Homeschooling offers students the ability to learn at their own pace, get one on one individualized attention, study things that are pertinent to that individuals life calling and interests, have true socialization opportunities on a wide scale (not just peer driven), as well as incorporate personal beliefs into the system and it works.

Answer 5

I believe all parents have the right to direct their own children's education.  Homeschooling isn't for everyone, but I would no more say kids should not be homeschooled than I would say all kids need to be pulled from school.

One of the parents here said that she could not be home with her kids 24/7.  That's her prerogative, of course.  Many of us don't have that problem.  Our kids take multiple classes, volunteer, play with their many friends, and enjoy life, all without going to school.  To each their own.

Answer 6

are  they nuts?    I'm not a trained teacher having my kids 24/7 would drive me crazy  no way would i put my self through that i love them being gone for 8 hours a day i need my sanity theres a 2 hour delay today and I'm already wantin to pull my hair out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 7

I think that the public school system has failed.

The public school system failed me from day one, and I am still traumatized by what happened to me.

There is no place for the exceptional student

There is no place for differences of thought

There is no place for differences of values.

The NEA thinks that they are the GREAT DECIDER for all that a child should be and believe.  Sadly, I was in third grade when I realized to my horror that my teacher was not as bright as I was.  I had to "fake" mistakes because my teacher mispronounced words and could not think through problems as well as I could.  I had some very intelligent teachers, but the majority were dumb as rocks.

Also, the school has become a political football and a minefield of "values education."  Boys are treated badly and made to feel guilty for being male.  Christians are disrespected and made to feel ashamed of their beliefs.  Fat or poor or unattractive children are mercilessly brutalized.  Children are indoctrinated.  Who needs that ****?

Answer 8

I think it's great.  Here's some facts and info for you:

http://www.successful-homeschooling.com/...

Answer 9

I think home-schooled kids miss out on a lot, even education-wise. A lot of my friends say they want to home-school their children when they're older, or put them in a private school, but I don't, and I'm one of the most education-minded people. I learned a lot about life through the public school system, and learning is an individual thing. I don't know, I was able to teach myself with what little public school gave me, and maybe not everyone is. But still, I learned things that you don't learn through home-schooling or even private school. Learning should be up to the student, and you shouldn't have to change their environment so they learn. I want my kids in the public school system, so they can learn about society and what's involved in that. I don't want to shelter them just because the world sucks. I want them to learn that on their own.

Answer 10

My sister was home schooled for a term (10 weeks) and it was ok, she got a lot of work done and when she went back to school was ahead. The only problem was socializing and the fact that my dad and sister don't get along very well. I think homeschooling can work very well though if done right. It can have huge benefits but also has its downfalls.

Answer 11

What are my thoughts?

That people believe the public school system has failed....

I disagree with homeschooling, and I don't particularly agree with just about everyone in this section....

I don't think someone should be homeschooled (Unless it's for medical reasons, or bully problems, Ect.) for religious reasons, and for trying to shelter the kid from the world....

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Answer 12

The rising in homeschooling indicates the public school system has failed and that parents care about their children's education.  I'm not saying homeschooling is for everyone.  But I do think children benefit more when homeschooled than when in a public school.  Personally when I have children I will never send them to a public school.

Answer 13

If I had to do it over again, I would send my kids to parochial school, rather than public school. Homeschooling is the next best, especially if a few of you get together and hire a private tutor. I think it takes a special parent to stick with the program day in and day out.

Answer 14

I don't think it's a trend. Trends imply that there is a waxing and waning of interest, but homeschooling has been increasing in numbers for over twenty years. This is a very serious call to the public education agencies that we, as parents, are concerned that children are NOT learning appropriately.

I find it ironic that the very product of public schools, the people who buy into the idea that it's 'best' are those who are supporting it most ardently. Primarily because they would have to face the deficits in their education as well as in their lifestyles if they could admit that schools do not provide a rounded, fulfilling education. There's a reason why more and more universities are teaching remedial classes, and it's not homeschoolers. In fact, the level of beginning college classes has decreased over the years, so that the basics can cover more that historically was taught in public high schools.

Answer 15

Considering homeschoolers are scoring higher on tests and doing better in colleges. High ranked colleges. Then they have proven it works. If you have a problem with a parent homeschooling it is because you are a simple closed minded person who doesn't know all the facts. Do all homeschoolinging do this well no. However the public school system is failing more children than homeschooling is. I don't feel everyone should homeschool but is everyone's right to home school.