What's the difference between home schooling and going to a public school?

Question

Why do people choose between them?

Answer 1

What's the difference???? Oh my goodness! What's the difference between an apple and a pizza!!! There is no comparison!!!

In public school the principal/teachers decide what you are going to learn and when, which books you will use, how long you will spend learning it, and everything else. You go from one class to another to another until you come home with homework and tests to study for.

In homeschooling, you and or your parents decide what the curriculum should be based on YOUR needs, not based on hundreds of other kids in the school. Every homeschool is as different as every homeschooling family is. And unless a family is doing 'school at home' and trying to imitate the public school system, it is nothing like public school.

Why people choose between them- well not everybody does. Some people feel very strongly in favor of public school and against homeschooling, and for them the choice is easy. Some people are very much in favor of homeschooling and against public school, and for them the choice is easy as well.

Some are unsure because they like the freedom homeschooling provides, they like all the advantages of homeschooling, going out your own pace etc, but they are worried that they will not be able to teach all the subjects adequately, they worry about the child's socialization and so forth. And for those parents, they have to make a choice

Answer 2

1.  Our curriculum at home is of a much wider variety than in public schools. We have a shorter time table with more school work.

2. No teacher can molest our children at home.

3. No student can bully our children at home.

4. No student is going to walk in our home because of their own personal weaknesses and shoot our children.

5. There is no harassment because our children choose not to follow a trend or hang out in set groups.

6. If our children get into trouble here they do the home work here. No s******g around in detention or waiting for a principal.

7. Zero tolerance here is happening. It's not a lie like in public schools. It's real here.

Answer 3

Homeschooling gives you more control over your schedule, curriculum, method of instruction, coursework, courseload, etc..  You have freedom to move at your own pace.

It also gives you more control socially.  You get plenty of real world interaction without having to deal with the negatives of school.  In fact, homeschooling is more like the real world than public school.

Here's a comparison chart:

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

Answer 4

You actually are allowed to pray. You aren't in a socialist agency. You can excell according to your ability...not according to rather the whole class is doing well.

Answer 5

One word- FREEDOM. When it comes to homeschool you have freedoms that you would not have in public schools.

Answer 6

Home schooling means being home all day without the interaction and social skills you get by attending school with your contemporaries. It also means, in some cases, being taught by people who are not qualified which can imperil your education in general. It's important to be able to function in society and that means attending school like all children should get to do.

Home schooling is creepy, isolated and denies many important aspects of public school along the way.

Answer 7

Home schooling provides a wider variety of opportunities. Although the work is harder, the children can excel to their highest potential without the class weighing them down. The ability to pray freely without questioning is also a well-liked variable.

Answer 8

public school you have to go by the class and do what they tell you to do.in home schooling you do everything at your own pace and time and do what you want to do.

if you are religious or are doing a serious sport that makes you miss alot of school then do home schooling but if your not religious or an athlete then go to public.

Answer 9

With homeschooling the family or parent has more of a say in the ways and means of the education.

There are a lot of not so great schools out there.  Those with poor educational track records or large violence records.

Some homeschool families do it for religious reasons due to recent court ruling wiping religion out of schools (when I went to public schools we sang Christmas Carols and made Christmas cards and our one and only Jewish student made a Chunnaka card instead).

Seeing as how the FIRST free of charge public mandated schools for all children were made by the Clergy in the US North East in 1660 so that all children could learn to read (Bible was the main tool), write and do numbers.  It seems only fair that some want to stick with this tradition.

Some do it because of disablities student have such as dyslexia and ADD

Public schools actually don't want those students there.  It slows general classes down and it's immoral or illegal to segregate them into a separate class.

Some homeschoolers choose to go to public school when it serves a purpose, such as Intermural Football, or video production, or student newspaper or good labs for Physics and Chemistry, Choir, Drama/Theater

This often happens when they move from a bad area to a better area.

Conoleezze Rice was homeschool grades 1-6 in the deep, Racist south where the black kids got a terrible schooling

When her parents moved to Colorado they put her into a Catholic Private school for grades 7-12 (High School) and then she went to Catholic Notre Dame for her BS degree.

Her family, if I'm not mistaken, were Baptists not Catholics.

Homeschooling didn't seem to hinder her abilities to get a Doctorate and become Secretary of State

It's an example of how family make a shift from public to home or basement school, to private schools when the conditions are ripe for it.

Some people also travel, such as military families.  These people do it because they end up pulling their kids from local school 3/4 the way to the end and putting them into a new school 1/4 the way to the end.

Not good for a consistent education.

Homeschooling is good for both advanced and slow learners.  Slower learners can take things at their own speed and go back over them at a later date.

Accelerated learners can work year round and complete a weeks lessions on two days if they can do it and pass the tests.

It's not usually to see 16 year old homeschooler making college applications and getting accepted.

On the down side of PUBLIC schools they won't give you a diploma unless you finished 12th grade EVEN if you have the credits by 11th grade.  They FORCE you to stay in school for one more year and take dull classes.

So someone who takes summer school and finishes all their AP and Honors courses by the end of 11th, they are stuck there for a year taking English, History, PE and Study Hall from 9-2 just because the rules say you have to graduate in 12th grade.

Answer 10

public school actually wont teach you anything they'll teach you a couple of things but you need more to get through life I suggest you talk to your parents + ask to go to private besides Public School is dangerous things get stollen they label you they gossip they do the stupidest thing its alot different than private its sort of the same but no fights and less bad things and things dont really get stollen

Answer 11

I am homeschooled and in the 9th grade. you work faster and hopefully graduate faster than in public school. I am starting paces. and that goes much faster.

Answer 12

Home schooling : no large group interaction, no bullies, less opportunity to learn to deal with social issues.

public school : education quality issues, bullies, More real world social experience.

Private or Charter school : same social opportunities as public schools, same educational opportunities as home school, More cost to parents . .

Answer 13

Primary difference is that one takes place primarily at home, usually within the family, and the other takes place primarily in a school.

With homeschooling, you've usually got regular interaction with a variety of ages (due to going out and doing things with other people, things not grouped according to age); at school, you essentially grow up with 20-30 "siblings" the same age.

With homeschooling, parents can have total say over what their children learn; the government chooses what students will learn in a public school.

With homeschooling, kids can work at their pace instead of going a set pace the teacher needs to go in order to get 20-30 kids through the same content for the year.

Having taught in school and my husband still teaches, we didn't like what we saw going on socially. There are better ways for kids to learn good social skills without being surrounded by immature kids all the time. We also wanted our children to get an education that would meet them where they were at. We've both taught kids who could have used more time or taught kids to whom we wished we could have given an entirely different program because they weren't being challenged enough with what the government mandated.

As for the comment about homeschooling not having large-group interaction, this does not have to be true. Weekly park days are common in many places--you can have anywhere from 20-40 kids of various ages (yes, even the teens will be there!) doing a variety of things. No bullies isn't true because there are sometimes bullies on public playgrounds or on rare occasions from another homeschooled child--the difference is the kids aren't growing up with this on a daily basis. It's like children who grow up in abusive homes--they see it happen daily so they think it's normal or that there's nothing to be done about it.

The work is not necessarily harder--depends on what parents choose to do.

Answer 14

The work is much harder, but more creative. It's definitely more interesting and is an environment for conducive learning. I guess people like it because their child doesn't have to conform but instead can be a kid provided they have a passion for learning and don't need the structure of a school environment.

Answer 15

Mission of any type of education system is to help students become educated, self-directed, and productive members of the society. Choosing a school is a matter of great concern. Home schooling means you are providing education to the child within a home environment. Parents decide what's to be taught. It might be a better way to teach the child but it lacks a school environment. The child is not able to interact with other students. Choosing public school, means cost is low as public schools are free. Class size is more. Success rate of a student depends on the class size. The larger the class size, the lesser time a teacher will devote to an individual student. Public  school education generally lacks quality of education. For more information on Public School you could go to: www.publicschoolreview.com .

Answer 16

People choose for personal reasons.

Some people homeschool from religious points of view, as you see above. Some people think their child needs extra help that they can't get through the institution. Some people travel with work, or otherwise have trouble with the school schedule. Some people just enjoy teaching and learning in small groups. Some people do it to promote family togetherness. And there are a million other reasons.

It's a really individual thing.

Answer 17

The subjects are basically the same, but often taught differently.

The reasons are many and different for everyone.