Is homeschooling the best type of education?

Question

homeschooling versus public schooling...

i am doing a report and need opinions.

pros and cons would be helpful.

thanks. :]

Answer 1

It's certainly the best for my family.  My kids are loving it.  We just finished the school year last Friday, and they're already bugging me to order next year's curriculum.  They are interested in what they're learning because they get to choose most of it.  We usually hold a family meeting at the end of the year.  We determine what level of math and LA each child will need and they tell us what their science, history, geography and social studies interests are.  This year, all three of my kids are two reading levels ahead and between one and three math levels ahead.  They just informed us that they don't want to come to  a complete stop over the summer.  One wants to do a more intensive study of our pond.  Another wants to build and erupt volcanoes in preparation for our coming winter trip to Hawaii.  We always offer them the choice to return to school and it's ALWAYS a resounding "NO".  As for socially, all three of my kids have fared far better at home.  We only school in the mornings, so most afternoons are spent at sports, music, swimming, workshops, volunteering, play arrangements, hikes and field trips, all with children my kids have actually CHOSEN as friends.  My kids are friendly, confident, out-going, secure, brilliant, happy, active and interested.  What they're not is bullied, bored, harassed, "peer" pressured, teased, beaten up, intimidated, ostracized or lost.  I'm watching my kids actually enjoying their education but still getting to be kids, not miniture adults.

Answer 2

Homeschooling is less social, I lost a lot of my friends when I started homeschooling. I do have more time to brush up on my hobbies though. I am going back to school so I can make more friends. Friends are the big reason I am going back. Both of my parents work too. Hope this helped

Answer 3

I think it would be good to define what you mean by best.  here are some possibilities:

Best= highest achievement   - then you need examples of people who achive in each - or don't achieve in each

Best= most flexible      Then you need to talk about variety in state schools due to teachers with a wide range of expertise, and examples of how homeschooling can be based in situations that state schools cannot have

Best = most fun      examples

or

Best = least work

Answer 4

im the best type of education

fo sho

Answer 5

For me, my siblings and 70% of our mates, homeschooling isn't only the best type of education, it's the only available type of education.

(We live in a remote area and the closest school is a 2 day drive away from our property)

I reckon the 'best type of education' depends on very many things tho. including (but not limited to):

i) what a person understands as being 'best';

ii) what's available in their locale...and their access to it;

iii) what it is they're expecting from their education and from their future;

iv) cultural and societal expectations and demands;

v) the resources available to them & their parents;

vi) the role of 'education' within their culture, society and own family;

vii) their personal and familial circumstances

Answer 6

Homeschooling is not the best type of education in my opinion. The children end up sheltered. They end up learning only what their parents find it appropriate for them to learn. They are never around a vast amount of kids. They never learn to take up for themselves. They never learn how to make 'good' friends. They have harder times getting into college because homeschooling does not hold the same prestige as high school. Homeschooled kids have to wait a semester to attain financial aid that covers classes simply because they have to PROVE they can handle a REAL course load[ this is in GA, I have no idea if this holds true in other states] Homeschooling is not hard. It does not challenge students. It does not expose them to the same things public school does. They are not exposed to a lot of homework, class hours, other people's opinions, etc. They learn only their parent's perspective on things. Most importantly, they learn nothing about the real world. They are not prepared for college life. I met many homeschooled people in college last year... a few ended up leaving, and the others just did not know what to do. They looked miserable. The list is endless.

I know homeschooling protects kids from THAT crowd, whether it is the thugs, the drug users, and so on, but... your kids must be exposed to such things in order to learn how to deal with LIFE. They have to learn how to make good choices. They have to learn what kind of friends to make. This is the main reason people in my area homeschool their children. I attended public school. 70-30 black. I however, took the higher level courses and kept a good head on my shoulders. I learned how to deal with people and how to hold my own. It is possible. You cannot save your children from everything.

Answer 7

Home Schooling is school with ur parents, where as public school is in a public building with staff and students.

Both educations are good depending on the situation

Answer 8

You can't say what's better per se.

I will give you some pros and cons from my personal experience (I was homeschooled K-12, Public for the last two years of college).

Homeschooling Pros:

You get personal attention from an instructor.

You have no choice but to communicate with the instructor, this facilitates learning and information retention.

Homeschooling allows the student more freedom in learning, being  able to learn what interests him/her.

Most homeschoolers exhibit maturity at a much higher level then their public school counterparts.

Most homeschoolers attend colleges and universities; usually at younger ages (I attended at 16).

Homeschooling Cons:

Less availablility of team sports activities.

Somewhat demanding of the instructor.

Overall, I believe homeschooling generally is "better" because of all the pros vs. cons. Also, the arguement about homeschoolers being socially challenged is a stereotype. I know 60 + homeschoolers around my neck of the woods, and they are all independent, intelligent, freethinkers. Also, there is nothing wrong with being a little bit strange; because in the adult world people except one another for who they are. They don't ridicule them like a immature child.

Cheers! =)

Answer 9

Here's a comparison of homeschooling and public schooling:

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

Here are some of the pros and cons:

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

Here are some statistics:

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

We homeschool our children, so I obviously feel homeschooling is best.

Good luck with your report!

Answer 10

Home schooling is the best education because a parent can actually widen the range of education rather than limit or edit it like public schools do.

We cover complete world history and geography. All the way around the world to the bottom of the ocean floor. That's just a starter for you.

We also teach automotive, home-economics, a great deal of math, literature (Shakespeare, Wild, Donne, and Eliot to name a few), we have art like crazy (Salvador Dali, Giger, Barlowe, Pre-Columbian, to name a few.) Biology, Botany, ergonomics. Like I said, we edit nothing.

However, somebody in here will put forth socialization as an argument. You asked about home schooling as an education, not socialization. Someone is not paying attention enough.

If socialization is so great in public schools then how is it that I hear about all these school shootings? How about the South Carolina boy that wanted to blow up his school and go to Heaven to kill Jesus? How about the Los Angeles high school where 600 students were into a fight? Look at Columbine?

What part of any of that is socialization? Look at the social skills of the people involved in killing students? Did it really work for them? When was the last time you heard about a home school student shooting up his home school?

Public school students, education not withstanding, should not have the problems of bullying, hatred, ostracizing, rumors that begin attacks on others. I have no problem with this at home. My boys do not feel hated by their teachers and their lunches aren't getting stolen anymore. Many teachers are nothing more than glorified babysitters. Look at how many of them make the news for molesting students? The ones that run off with students? Yet they also play favorites. The well to do student or attractive students always get top priority whereas every other student is dumped on.

A principal in California also kidnapped a 13 year old student and took her home for s*x. More "social" skills, so to speak.

There are far more pros to home schooling than cons.

We set our own hours. We honor only Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays. No snow days, no PTA days. Our kids are always completed by the third week of March.

Ask a public school student the following and see if they can answer them, because our children can: What was General George Crook's Starvation March, who was Dr. Charles Drew, how were disc brakes discovered, how was air conditioning discovered, what is the only food that does not spoil, where is the Marianas Trench located, who discovered radium?

Who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue???

Some may be able to answer, but not many.

Answer 11

Personally I think it varies from student to student.I hated public school I was practically a Dropout then I Joined a home school group where I go 2 days a week. I am much happier and the level of education is much better+ there is not 30 kids to a class.

      My sister on the other hand is doing well in Public school.

What it comes down to is where a person does best.

Answer 12

ok, homeschooling with our son, is the BEST move we made, when he was in public schooling, there was so much learnign he never learned becuase teh school thought or felt is wasnt nessacarry to learn about.

Perfect example......I made a comment when my son was in teh3rd grade about presidnet Washington. My son looked at us, & said president WHO? He knew nohting about the presidnets, or American history.

When I asked te shcool why, I was told, well, with the war over seas, its best they learn about that instead.

I laughed at that & said, ok, heres MY problem with that!

1. We live in America, & the kids NEED to learn there hsitory of the states they live in, no over seas.

2. The kids are WAY too d**n young to learn about the bloody war thats going on now as it is!

But once we took his education in our own hands, we started teaching him so much that the schools here lacked in. I couldnt belive just how much we taught him, he knew nothing about.

He really loves learnign about the AMreican history too.

well, learn about thewar now in a few years too come. But both my husband & I felt its MORE important to learn about your own history then, whats going on over seas rigth now!

Plus, my son went from D's & F's to A's & B's. thats a hugh difffrence there.