Prove to me that homeschooling is legitimate?

Question

As a public school teacher, I find homeschooling to be ridiculous and have a largely negative impact on a child's life. I want some pro-homeschoolers to show me how you, many of which have no degree, are suited to teach children and bring them up to be successful. Show me how you can create real social experiences (which are vital) in a homeschool setting. Show me how homeschooling prepares you for the real world. Show me how the absence of things such as a science laboratory can not affect the way that your child learns. If you can truthfully show me that homeschooling is legit, there's a good chance that I will change my mind. I've known many families who have homeschooled and they all have very socially awkward kids who may have 'graduated' at 16, but would have failed out of a classroom setting. Their kids go to school in their pajamas and have month-long breaks whenever they want to. It truly seems silly and inconsistent, among many other things. I'm just running out of characters

Answer 1

I have seen it successfully done.....now they have special groups that get together to co-homeschool or for outings in socialization. They usually attend some HS classes or specialized classes when materials are not available at home. I think it can work, but a parent must be super motivated and interested in actually having their child succeed. It largely depends on the parents as to how the program will work.

Answer 2

And exactly when did it become my job to prove anything to you whatsoever?

Answer 3

As many have said before me; we do not have to prove anything, because it is a FACT that home schooling works, and surpasses the quality of education provided in any conventional school system.

Second as I have stated several times before, I have known/know families where the parents barely finished high school; they manage their own businesses, farm, or ranch, and have successfully home schooled their children all the way through high school.

Many of these youngsters went on to college, and did very well.

Colleges actively recruit home schooled students because they rarely, if ever need remedial classes, and are independent students who have little, or no adjustment problems in college.

They also more often than not have their AA before applying to a four year college, enabling them to start as sophomores.

As for advanced classes like Chemistry labs, if there are no coops in the area, the students can take these classes at a local community college and get college credits for them, no muss no fuss.

The alternatives to conventional schooling are many, and to the dismay of public schools administrators, and many teachers who do not agree with educational choice these alternatives work very, very well.

For factual statistics, SAT scores, college admissions, military and other factors relating to home schooling, so you can compare home schooling to conventional schooling, please visit, and read the following web site;

http://www.nheri.org/

One of my husbands degrees is a Masters in Education; he teaches part-time at the university level, and he will be the first one to tell you that you do not need a teaching degree to be a good teacher.

Experience, and being a subject expert in the area you would like to teach would be very helpful; which he is, but how many, if any  "school teachers" are subject experts, have previously, or are currently working in the field(s) that they teach in a classroom?

Trust me, as a home schooI parent/teacher I will be the last one to minimize the awesome job of teaching; I love it still, each and every day.

FYI home schooling is legal in all 50 states, and some states even have it written in their State Constitutions as a fundamental right; I believe it is called the parental right to direct the upbringing and education of ones children.

Answer 4

Well public school isn't much better! I mean I knew people who couldn't spell women but still some how got their high school diploma! One guy I knew went to fill out an application and thought when it asked if he had a nick name that Elmo would be ok to put! I think if the parents really make the kids do the work and don't let them slack off then home schooling is a bit better then sitting in a crowded class and hardly learning anything. As for the social thing, they make groups for kids being  home schooled that meet up two or three times a week and work together or just hang out. I think you are being very close minded.

Answer 5

You are, of course, entitled to your opinion.  Before I started homeschooling, I thought there would be some disadvantages too.  We thought we would try it just for eight months, while we moved to a new country and settled in.  Thankfully the teachers at my sons' school were very positive about home education - they pointed out that moving country is in itself an educational experience, that we already did a lot of reading and IT, and that a year out of school would probably be a good thing for most children so long as their parents were reasonably intelligent.  

By the time we had been home educating for a year, we were totally hooked.  My sons (who were 9 and 11 when we started) thought they would be lonely, and would miss the structure of school.  What happened was that they were able to make friends much more easily by not being in school - they made friends of all ages, instead of just limiting themselves to their year-group.  They also found that whereas they wanted a bit of structure, they also wanted the freedom to work on a project or essay until it was finished, rather than having to put it aside at the end of a 40-minute period.  

I assumed we would need to stick to school-type books and work through them - but the reverse was the case.  Once my sons had de-schooled somewhat, their learning started by leaps and bounds.  One son was intrigued by trigonometry, for instance, having seen references to it in a magazine he was reading.  I got out a school text book and explained about three months' worth of trigonometry in half an hour.  He grasped it instantly, because he was motivated to do so, and started using it in his graphic design.  

As each year went by, my sons looked at the local schools, and talked to their friends, and decided each time that they would much prefer home education.  They had far more time for socialising than any of their school friends, as well as learning musical instruments, singing in choirs, taking art classes and more.  They were confident in mixed-age groups, and when they wanted to learn things which I could not teach, they were competent at finding relevant websites or discussion groups online.

My older son is now 21 and has been working for nearly two years on a ship with 350 other people of about 50 different  nationalities.  He thinks outside the box, he's always willing to try something new, he has no need to be competitive, and he is totally self-motivated.  There are only a handful of other workers like him, and most  of them were also homeschooled.  Many of those who went through the school system in their countries feel that they are limited to what they were taught at school, are embarrassed to ask about somethign they don't understand, find it hard to get along with people of widely differing age-groups, and want to be told what to do all the time.  

My younger son is 19.  In the past year he has done the first year of a degree course by correspondence;  he's going to transfer to a university in the UK next Autumn.  He has also been a church organist and choirmaster, worked for a music exam, run a teenage youth band, and assisted several friends in sorting out major computer problems.   He, too, has no problem working with people of all ages and backgrounds, and is frequently complimented on being so confident and mature for his age.  

Home education may not be ideal for everyone, but it's an excellent lifestyle for those who really want to learn beyond the limitations of a school system.

Answer 6

Why? I certainly don't have to. You've apparently made no attempt to properly research homeschooling, choosing instead to rely on opinion rather than facts.

Will you prove to me that public schooling is legitimate? Or that sending one's kids to public school is somehow justifiable?

I don't need to prove anything to anyone especially as we're not even in the same country or the same hemisphere.

I'm home-educated (in my country, we don't use the term 'homeschooling') as are all my siblings. It works for us; we're happy and we're thriving and achieving everything we wish to achieve. That for me is all the proof I need that it is a legitimate choice. We have no need to compare or prove ourselves to anyone else.

Home education has served people in my country very well for a lot longer than any schools have and, it is not only surviving, it is thriving.

PS Home educated kids can, for instance, now access the universities' virtual laboratories if they so wish but my brother managed to study practical chemistry and physics (up to yr 13) using only materials which are available from any pharmacist,chemical company etc.

PPS Home education prepares me and my siblings for 'the real world' because, only by being home educated, are we able to remain in and grow up in our own society, our own culture.

There is very little point in us going to school when that would mean, for us, leaving here for an alien culture, a culture we'll never return to once we'd finished school anyway. Better to stay at home and be educated whilst simultaneously living at the centre of the society we'll grow up in, work in, raise our own families in (and yes, home educate our own children in), grow old in and ultimately die in.

Much better that than going away to a society we'll walk away from at 18 years old, never to return to, just so we can 'go to school'.

Finally, if you reckon home education is somehow illegitimate, you might want to ask yourself why 1 in 3 homeschooling parents either teach or taught in the public school system.

Answer 7

1) Drop the, "as a public school teacher," thing.

I'm a homeschooling mom and I've found that the group of people who've been the most curious and supportive about my family's hoeschooling has been public school teachers. Being a public school teacher does not mean you have to dump your critical thinking skills and adopt positions without real thought.

2) Do your own research. Your question shows an embarrassing lack of intellectual curiousity and research skills. Google studies, read blogs and message boards, check out your local libraries and do the basics that critical thought demands like dumping preconceived ideas and recognizing your own selection bias.

Answer 8

You don't have to have a degree to buy a pre-made curriculum to teach to your child. I think you're assuming many things about home schooled children, and parents who home school. Most home schooled children are home schooled in groups with other children. There is usually a local home school group in every city, there has been one in every city I've lived in. Many parents do it because they don't agree with what's taught in schools, or the way it's taught. It's the parents right, and their perogative to teach their children whatever they choose, and to keep their kids from things that they don't think are appropriate. Being socially awkward is not just a thing for home schooled kids either, I know loads of socially awkward ADULTS and kids that are the product of public schools. I don't think social awkwardness has anything to do with wether or not you're home schooled so it's silly for people to assume that it does.  I don't really know what you mean by inconsistent, just because some parents want their kids to have more time to be kids rather than to be ladden down with 4 billion hours of homework every day. I honestly think people that homeschool are giving their kids more of a chance at normalcy than you get in public schooling. The amount of homework is completely ridiculous, the amount of things expected from you as a child in public school is ridiculous. I think it's unfair of you to ridicule people for wanting their kids to remember their childhood as something more than endless homework, social responsibility, and barely time for anything else on the side for 12 whole years.

Answer 9

Well, first of all I was homeschooled by my mother, a computer data processing supervisor at Follette publishing, in touch typing at age 6.  She used a think method.  We learned the QWERTY keyboard in our minds and then she told me what hands and finigers to use for what letter.  Then we'd reverse it, what finger was what letter.  We'd take turns asking the questions, which meant I had to know the answer, she gave up when I started getting into punctuations (because the IBM computer had them in different places).

When I later whent to public school where they taught (this is the 1960s by the way) typing in 8th grade I got an A because I was already doing 45 WPM accurately.

My mother in later years used the Gregg book on me to help me learn more.

My mother did this because I wanted to write.  I wrote fiction and non fiction and got published in Sky and Telescope at the age of 16.

This was all unschooling, except for the little grammar I learned in primary school.

I do regret, today, not paying too much attention to 4th grade sentence diagraming and for the life of my I can't find much on that lost art today.  It's like they don't sentence diagram anymore!

My mother also homeschooled me in music.  She was conservatory trained and played professionally for 20 years, was an AFM member.

Her's an interesting story for you teacher!

When I got into 4th grade Chicago Public Schools the music teacher (with a BA in Music) put up symbols on the board and asked us what they were.

I picked one an answered.

Now PAY CLOSE ATTENTION

G Celf

She said:  WRONG!

In a loud tone that rang around the room.

She wanted to hear Treble Clef

My mother never taught it to me that way, she taught me G Clef, C clef, F Clef

Upon going home thinking my mother was a jerk she pulled out the music dictionary and low and behold there is was in BOTH TERMS

G Clef=Treble clef

BUT the BA educated TEACHER who is MOLDING the minds of 10 year olds didn't say

Partially write

Not what I was looking for

She said, without exception and I have 35 witnesses

WRONG!

And that, teacher, if anything is what is wrong with Public Education.

Demi Gods who wants things their own narrow way and if you take them to the principal you won't get a forced apology to the class or nor rectification, you'll get the stock teacher answer.

The answer has to be the answer I'm expecting.

By this token, OHMS law, which can be written two ways, can be declared WRONG if the teacher only subscribes to ONE of the ways.

Now, all my training in music is homeschool and unschool except for primary school training in songs like Celito Linda and  Waltzing Matilda which seem to be the only two songs primary school knows how to teach.

I did music live on stage for 35 years, produced records with international airplay and ASCAP current performance status and royalties.

This all came from my homeschooling and unschooling.

Never took band in school.  Never took music past 5th grade.

Same things with my photography and filmmaking work.  That was all unschooling.

My mother bought me tube tape recorders at age 10 and I was wiring them into the phone and making transfers.  She got me 8mm equipment at 11 and I was doing special effecting, titling, superimpositions, fades and syncing it with sound using start marks.

I devised my own system for dissolves and superimpositions..

I'd take the camera into a closet, open the film door and use a hole punch in the middle of the film.  Then I'd shoot footage.  Then I'd back up the film to the punch hole and shoot my titles over that footage on black background.

I'd do the same thing for split screen and I'd tape black construction paper over half the lens.

No one taught me this, I just figured out that how you do it.

When I was 5 I used to play with stereo optigons.  View Master Viewers.  One day I took a flash light and put it behind the ground glass and faced the lens at the white wall and found it projected light and then I moved the lens and it eventually formed an image

I turned a view master into a slide projector and turned the disk around so the letters would be left to right not reversed.

This was when I was 5

At 13 I was into observational astronomy and trying to take moon pictures and nothing would come out.  I'd be spending $2 of my own money at Walgreens and getting nothing.

I visited a photo shop and the told me to try doing my own darkroom work.  They showed me a little Yankee kit for $12 that had everything and, well, I was spending that in a month on Walgreens.

So I got one and on my first roll of Verichrome Pan processed with a Tri Chem pack I got a perfect picture of a full moon.  Except it was the size of a marble.

Remembering my little view master experiment I decided to take a shoe box, toilet tissue roll and magnifying glass and see if I could make a projector.

I taped the negative to the outside of the box over a hole I cut with a razor blade, taped the lens to the toilet paper roll and turned a light on.  Then I saw how far I need to place the lens, cut the roll to size and taped it.

Put in some Velox paper, closed the lid, turned off the bathroom lights and put on the desk lamp behind the shoe box.

I got a 5x enlargement that was quite detailed with rays emitting from Tycho

Now I didn't use any books to learn this.  I just used my brain, which is what unschooling is about.  Independent thinking, something the Public School doesn't teach until a Masters Program in college.

School is all about ROTE

ROTE and PRE REQUISITES

Later when I got a Durst Enlarger I did finally apply some Middle School education.  I took a plastic course and we worked with Etheyline DiChloride.  I needed to make a color head for my black and white enlarger and visited a plastics shop and got some opaque plastic and Etheyline and with a hand jig saw made my pieces and bonded them.

Answer 10

Seeing as how you're so bright, prove to me that it's fine to send a child to public school when the very first week kids are getting arrested for bringing weapons such as guns and knives to school. Yeah, public school is way better than homeschooling. NOT! You have your opinions and we have ours. That's what's makes the world go round. What you think is not really very important now is it?

Answer 11

I don't think it's possible to show you that it's legitimate. Why not? Because I believe you have your mind made up. The only way I could possibly truly show you is to have you come hang out with us for a few weeks, have you attend the activities we attend, have you talk to some of the parents and homeschooling kids we know. No words are going to convince you.

Could you prove to me that public school is better for my kids? Never. I've done so much research, thought so much about it and live homeschooling every day. I'm not going to be able to prove to you that homeschooling is "legitimate" any more than you could prove to me that my kids would be better off in school.

For the benefit of those reading who are sitting on the fence, I will say a bit more. I'm a former public school teacher; my husband is a public school teacher. We have lived the public schools here and do not feel they are the best things for our kids. Homeschooling came out of a desire to NOT have that negative impact on our kids.

Having no degree has no bearing on how successfully someone can homeschool their children. More than one study has been done showing that. One of the studies actually showed a slight advantage to those whose parents didn't even have a high school diploma--the reason suggested for that is that the parents were determined to make sure their children did better than they did. Wouldn't you agree that a teaching degree doesn't guarantee a good teacher? I've seen plenty of bad teachers with teaching degrees. It's those who are passionate and determined and who care who do best. Many homeschooling parents are more passionate, determined and nobody could care more for their kids than they do. It's drive and purpose that ensure success, not a degree.

My teaching degree did not include any courses on how to help kids grow up to be successful. Success doesn't come from academic achievement--many people who achieve academically struggle with later success, and many people who struggled in school enjoy great success. It's more about character than academics.

We don't have to create "real social experiences". Just living and interacting with each other is far more normal for a child than sitting in a desk most of the day, surrounded by same-age peers, listening to an adult. We also have parties, go to parties, have play dates, go to play dates, go to park days (where the kids play freely for sometimes 3-5 hours), go on field trips with other families, have the kids in various community lessons (swimming, skating, soccer, gymnastics and more) and other homeschooling activities. They have a distinct advantage over public schooled kids because they are with a different social group all the time, meeting new people all the time, talking to various ages all the time. This is how the "real" world will be after they are out of school. I would qualify it then as a more real social experience than school.

In your training, did you not learn how society used to be? Have you read nothing about what life used to be like? Do you believe that people lacked "real social experiences" before mass schooling came into being? Prove to me how the people of the past lacked real social experiences. You believe Thomas Edison (who only attended school for a couple of months), various presidents (including the Roosevelts), various scientists and authors and generals and more were lacking in social experiences? If so, then you are far too jaded to really listen, so what is the point in asking your question?

I have yet to see an elementary school that has a science laboratory. Some of the jr. highs have them, but many don't use them. Why not? Because there are 30-35 students now and the labs were designed for smaller classes (the schools were built some 20+ years ago) and it's not safe for them to use it, not to mention that the kids just don't stay focused enough. The high school labs are not used much. A few times per course, if you're lucky, and that's it. My own brother-in-law is a high school biology teacher and he is lucky if he can have the students do one lab a year. Anything else has to be a demonstration.

I'm not sure why you feel this is so huge to a student's success. Labs are helpful to learning, yes. But not doing them doesn't mean the student is not going to learn about chem, bio or physics. There are demo videos and well explained texts out there. Is it as good? Maybe not. But it's minor. I don't need a lab to learn about the periodic table and how things bond. I can read the results of an experiment and imagine what happened. Well, I don't need to really continue. Thousands of students in my city don't get regular labs, and some don't get any labs, and they still learn and are successful in college-level science. Heck, I know some private schools here that don't even have labs, yet the students can still go on to post-secondary science.

I met a boy this summer--he was 13, I think--at a homeschool conference Q&A session and when a parent thinking of homeschooling asked what disadvantages the kids (there were 6 of them) saw to homeschooling, he was the only one who brought up something. He said that the lack of a science lab was a bit of  a drawback, but that it wasn't worth attending school full time to have--too many other benefits to homeschooling far outweighed it. (Let me say that this is a child who is doing the same work as his older sister and always has the choice of attending school if he wants.)

Your examples are limited, and unless you follow those students' lives for the next 10 years to see where they end up, you have no basis for judging if their homeschooling was a failure or not. You have probably met former homeschoolers who were completely fine and well educated and successful and you never knew it. What does going to school in pyjamas have to do with anything? What do month-long breaks whenever they want have to do with anything? What do a few families whose kids wouldn't be successful in a classroom setting prove? Does a kid failing in public schools prove that public schools "aren't legitimate"? Besides, you are talking about individual families and not homeschooling itself.

Let's change the question a bit: prove to me that parents raising their kids is legitimate! I find parenting ridiciulous and that it has largely a negative effect on a child's life. Look how many kids get into drugs, crime, pregnant, STD's, sleep around, care more about their friends than school or their family!

There have been various studies done on homeschooling. Some by homeschooling organizations; naturally, those could be seen as somewhat biased. One comes to mind where someone at a university set out to prove how homeschooling was detrimental, yet he couldn't prove it and it changed his mind about homeschooling. I wish I could find the specific link. But I can provide this link http://www.fraserinstitute.org/COMMERCE.... . The Fraser Institute has traditionally graded schools and celebrated great schools. It still continues to do that and has even set up a program to help low-income families get their kids into private schools. So, they have no vested interest in homeschooling. But their publication is very positive based on the data they collected. If unbiased data from people who have never homeschooled can't convince you, then nothing ever will.

Answer 12

take one look at public schools.  There is your answere.  The average mother cares a lot more for their kids than the morons that teach in public schools!  For god sakes I don't want my kid dumbed down an will definately consider home or private schooling.

Answer 13

If the parents are mildly retarded like 95% of the population, then no it isn't

Answer 14

Prove to ME that we should have to send our kids to the miserable and frightening failure that IS PUBLIC SCHOOL.

PROVE to me by ANY VALID STAT. that homeschool is bad. Do it. I know you can't. I've asked here before for anti-homeschool people to PROVE it is bad and got NOT ONE ANSWER. ZILCH.

Real social experiences? Are you calling SCHOOL a REAL SOCIAL EXPERIENCE????? When in you life are you EVER AGAIN crammed in a room with 30 other kids EXACLTY the same age as you? THAT is false.

You are SO clouded with stereotypes. My homeschooled kids DO have a science lab, not that I would call that the end all, be all of education. But they also have a college professor who teaches their science class........a lot better than the bloody P.E. COACH I HAD FOR A SCIENCE TEACHER IN PUBLIC SCHOOL!!!!!!!!

I have NO degree.....guess what? My 17 year old son just scored a 31 (out of 36) on the ACT and is going to college next year. He is studying to be a psychologist. Miserable failure there, right? Give me a break! Are you even aware of the DROPOUT rate pf Public school? So far MY homeschool has a dropout rate of ZERO! Good enough for me.

My stepson was in Public school for a while. When we got custody we took him OUT, because we got a paper he'd written where he spelled the word "sudden" S-U-N-D-I-N-G. In 8th grade! After ONE year of homeschool we had him tested and he was reading (finally) at his appropriate grade level.

Public school is a JOKE

Answer 15

Prove to me that public school is not a dismal failure for many children...

As a former private and public and now homeschool teacher, I find public school to be ridiculous for many children and often has a largely negative impact on a child's life.  But don't take my word for it: Do an Internet search on terms such as "public school [keyword]" where keyword = remediation, drop out rates, violence, pregnancy, bullying, literacy / illiteracy, std, test scores, science, math.

The question was asked a few weeks ago for anti-homeschoolers to backup their assertions using data and research.  Not a single person could because there is NO serious research that even suggests that homeschooling is "bad" as described.

All the data and serious research does show that homeschooling works both academically and socially.

You show me how the public school environment in any way reflects the social environment of the real world and prepares a child for the same.

Why do you assume that homeschool children do not have access to things such as science laboratories - in our case at least, we have access to science labs through universities, industry and hands-on museums that are world class.

I've known many public school "graduates" who are totally bewildered to discover that what made them  popular in school (socially acceptable) is of little or no value in the real world.  Plus many who can neither  read nor write above a 3rd grade level and cannot do basic math (e.g cannot make change as a clerk at the grocery store) and they do fail in the real world.  30% - 40% never graduate.

Public school kids have an arbitrary amount of time to master or fail a subject, are commonly not allowed to go to the bathroom when they need, are taught in elementary school by a generalist not a specialist in any subject, are among at least a hundred students taught in middle and high school by so called "specialists," are forced to progress at a pace that is in part mandated by the beauracracy and in part by the fastest or slowest in the classroom,  must adhere to an inflexible schedule that in no way reflects individual academic needs or abilities and sometimes forces a choice between necessary medical treatment and being held back regardless of academic ability and progress, are commonly subject to bullying, negative peer pressure, etc.  

Talk about silly and inconsistent.

Do you have children?  Perhaps when you do and they are of school age you might change your mind.  Curiously, many of the homeschool parents that I know are current or former public school teachers.

Answer 16

ok sp I am fully pro homeschooling to an extent! I was homeschooled all the way up through 8th grade, and then I was put into a private school for 2 years, and then went to public high school for my sophomore through senior year. I have not been anti-social once in my life, and I have turned out just the way God intended! So in this sense I think it is ok to home school children to s certain grade level. I believe every child deserves to have the real High School experience, so they can develop and learn heart break and all that goes into forming a solid relationship with the opposite s*x.

Answer 17

I don't suppose we could prove to you that homeschooling is effective anymore than you can prove to us that public school is effective.  

You would need to come and visit us.  Since that is not practical, maybe you can make friends with some home schooled students in your area.  Please go in with an open mind and let the families know that you are interested in the concept of homeschooling.  We, homeschooled families, are happy to help people who are honestly interested in the more natural way for children to learn.

Answer 18

I am not homeschooled, was never homeschooled, and don't intend to homeschool my son, but I have to say--- you very clearly already have your mind made up.

Demanding that someone "prove" you wrong, and then going on to say that you think it's ridiculous doesn't bode well.

I have several friends who were homeschooled. Two are close friends. One I grew up with. One is now in medical school at the University of Minnesota. She got her master's degree two years ago and graduated summa c um laude. She really is exceptionally bright and did astoundingly well on all her standardized tests.

The other close friend who was homeschooled is pursuing a business degree. In her case, I had the opportunity to observe how her mother conducted the homeschooling-- and that's where I have to take exception to your characterization of homeschool settings as lax, informal, and pajama-clad. Her mother had the kids up at 7. They took short, structured breaks, and finished their studies around 3 or 4 (a source of constant annoyance for my then-teenage friend, who wanted to finish school when her friends did, at 2:50). She went on to go to business school. She's a senior this year.

Neither of the women are socially awkward. Both did very well in formal classroom settings in college. I don't plan to homeschool because I'm not cut out for it, but very clearly, homeschooling worked for these two young women.

Answer 19

Then prove to me that public schools aren't a gigantic failure.

Answer 20

I just started homeschooling my daughter last year. I pulled her out half way through her forth grade year. She way behind where she should have been in reading, spelling, and maturity. When I pulled her out I had been doing up to 5 hrs of homework with her in the evening for a few years. She had no social life she didn't go out and play she had no time for that. She just wouldn't do her work at school. I pulled her out and started schooling her at home and she was able to finish her work in about 5 to 7 hrs everyday and know she goes out daily and plays with her friends.

I had a few other problems with the public school and the principle but I am not here to bash public schools. Home school has worked for my little girl she is happier and has more friends.

Answer 21

The government that funds the public school system thinks it is legitimate. Is that enough proof for you?

Answer 22

I home schooled my daughter once she got to high school.  Why?  She is dyslexic.  My field of study was psychology.  If I had not home schooled her there was a good chance she would not be able to read and write today.  The issue is that special needs students need more one on one.

We moved to a foreign country and she learned a new language in the 2 years that we lived there.  She has been accepted into university.  It was not an easy road but she has been successful.

I agree with you that many parents do not have the qualifications to teach their children and are inconsistent with their education.

Answer 23

smaller classes

Answer 24

I am homeschooled have lots of friends, enjoy school, and learn a lot because I am 1. Not in a class room with my friends ( I think that helps me to  concentrate), 2. Can use instead of text books, books written by authors interested in the subject. 3. I think  it is easier for me to interact with kids younger then me, because I am not always with only kids my age.

I believe there are stats that show that homeschooling is successful.

I would not want to go to public school because I do not

think I would be able to have so much fun while learning.

I have found that my public school friends get more holidays then me! I do not get teachers days off, I am having a week and two days winter break, and I have a summer break. But other then winter break I have only had one day of this school year. While my public school friends have had more then that.

  I think it is up to the parent if there child is getting too many breaks or not. But none of my homeschooling friends get days off like that.

Also I think that children homeschooled by parents who have not finished collage can learn more then even there parents know by reading!

  And I am also not allowed to go to school in my Pajamas, I have to wear socks and appropriate clothes to school every day.

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I agree, I was homechooled till 5th grade and it really pissed me off cause I had literally only 1 friend till then. I like public a LOT better. Plus it's an open flow of ideas(I'm a senior right now). I don't want to know how I'd turn out if I had been homeschooled all this time....