What is home schooling????

Question

does it mean you literally educate yourself at home? like how? get a private teacher? why would anyone do this? why don't they just go to public school? isn't it better?

Answer 1

No it means your parents or a charter school educate you!

It is SO much better then public! NO peer pressure or Homework! More friends!No Public is WORSE!

Answer 2

you don't have to have a teacher come if you don't want to.  but yes its done at home.  and there is virtual home schooling and regular. on virtual its done on the computer.  on regular you send your homework in and they send you your grades.  and people do this because they like to be at home?

personally i think public school is better.

Answer 3

home schooling is learning at home, but not yourself. it's mostly done by a parent or private teachers. they also have programs, which they must follow if they want that diploma to be worth anything. why? well... that probably do some very concerned parents, because they don't think educational system is good enough for their kid or some extremely rich parents, whose children couldn't go nor to public neither to private school. and, of course, i think it's better to go to school.

Answer 4

Yes, you literally are educated at home, just as people from cultures all over the world have been for centuries.

Actually, public school is a pretty new creature (it's only been around nationwide for the past 100-150 years or so) and no, it's often not better.  Through homeschooling, a student can receive an individually tailored education, which is impossible in a school where teachers routinely see 120 students each day.

People homeschool for all sorts of reasons.  First of all, public schools are basically the one-size-fits-all version of education.  Instead of tailoring a curriculum to students, they attempt to tailor students to the curriculum.  This would be like your doctor tailoring your disease to a certain treatment instead of the other way around - it just doesn't work.  For students that learn well in a structured classroom, from teachers that teach in a certain way, yes, it's good.  For students that learn better through small group activities and independent research, however, it can be an absolute nightmare.

Next, not all states have laws that allow kids to receive the education they deserve.  My son, for example, is both highly gifted and dyslexic; academically, he's anywhere from 2-5 years above grade level (depending on the subject) and requires individual instruction in some subject areas.  He also requires differentiated instruction, since dyslexia causes him to see things in a different way.  Our state doesn't allow him to be accelerated for any reason (you're in whatever grade your age states, no matter what) and our district class sizes are over 30 kids per class.  Not only wouldn't he be able to study at his level, but there's no way his teachers could hope to give him even a few minutes of individual instruction on a daily basis.

Through homeschooling, I can allow him to study at his ability level, rather than his age level.  I can also work with him individually to make sure that he's getting the instruction that he needs.  On top of this, he gets more work done in less time, which means that he'll be able to work on most of his college credits while he's still in high school.  Translation - he'll graduate high school with his first three years of his Bachelor's degree completed.  Not bad.

Why would we do this?  Well, I homeschool him because he's worth it.  He's my son and I love him enough to do what's right for him.  In our case, no - public school is not better.  Homeschooling is what's right for him, so that's what we do.

Answer 5

No public school is not better.  Thanks to the "No child left behind" act they have significantly lowered the standards in the schools.  Usually when a child is home schooled they are taught by a parent or as part of a co-op.  Why did I home school?  Several reasons, one being that a teacher hit my son so hard with a text book that she left a bruise on him and the school though nothing was wrong with that.  The final straw was when my son answered a math problem wrong on purpose and it was marked as correct just because he made the effort to put an answer down.  They don't like to mark answers wrong because that may damage the child's self esteem.  The math problem was 2+2=, and the answer he put was fish.  I know there are some wonderful teachers in the public school system, however at the school my son was in the teachers did not seem to want to teach, and when I tried to work with the teachers to help my son learn I was labeled as a "trouble maker".  That being said, with home schooling my son was able to graduate from high school 2 years early, at the age of 16, and at 19 is certified in computer science.  He works, has a girlfriend, tons of other friends, and is one of the most social outgoing people I know.

Answer 6

I've been home-schooled since kidnergarden.

Grades 1-6, my mom taught me. She ordered a ciriculim from actual schools. The book told her what to say and what to do in order to teach me, so she didn't need a degree or anything.

In the seventh grade, I did a DVD program. The teachers were from actual schools and taught me through DVDs for every subject.

We did this because the schools in our area were bad, and even if they were good, I would get a better education at home.