What are some facts about homeschooling?

Question

for example (according to homeschooling association 65% of the homeschooled kids who are isolated to much commit suicide)

Something like that.

sorry for the example thats the only thing i could think about.

and remember it has to be a fact on how homeschooling is bad.

Thanks for your help!!

Answer 1

it's propaganda you're after, not facts.

Answer 2

According to home schooling association 65% of the home schooled kids who are isolated too much commit suicide?

What do the statistics say about children that attend public schools and are hounded by bullies, racism, theft, sexual assaults, segregation for having different clothes or no cell phone? What are the statistics for kids gunned down in public schools over home schooling kids? What are the statistics for public school kids that are molested by their teachers?

Home schooling is not bad. Our children get a far better education with no risk whatsoever as opposed to public schools. Our sons suffered bullies and theft on a daily basis. And this was at a school proud to call itself zero tolerance. You know what zero tolerance really is? If it's not reported, if it's swept under the rug, that is zero tolerance.

Here, they don't run the risk of cowardly students shooting up the classroom, or getting ripped off, or harassed, or a teacher ignoring them and pretending to be a teacher.

How many public schools teach world history for nearly every country the way we do? They don't. They also don't do class work on the scale that we do. Our math is repetitive on a grand scale.

Our oldest son right now is doing a report on Allen Welsh Dulles and our youngest one is doing a report on the KGB. I have never seen a public school even remotely bring up those subjects. Last week, they both did reports on agriculture and the U.S. Marshal's Service.

Teachers today do not place the effort into helping children the way they did 20 to 30 years ago. Today, teachers are nothing more than glorified babysitters. Teachers focus on the favored students, the well to do students, attractive students, or the moron students that disrupt an entire classroom.

The only argument that people put up for home schooling is the lack of social interaction. Take a look at Columbine and others schools that have suffered such attacks and then tell me again about how social interaction is so great.

We teach our children everything from Automotive to Sciences. We don't baby them or honor PTA days or teacher days. During snow days we even have them do school work.

By the end of a public school year our children have knocked out nearly three times the work with far less stress. If our children are exhausted they tell us and we give them a day off. However, this is rare.

Answer 3

How about something like 95% of homeschoolers have experienced uneducated prejudices against them in some form.  Like this question, for instance.

Or maybe that about 72-75.3% of all homeschoolers I've met are polite, well-adjusted individuals who are less motivated by pop culture than biblical and moral truths.

Strange place for this question.

Answer 4

First of all I do not think you will find any evidence to support your hypotheses that home schooling has any adverse affects on those who choose it as their way of life; unless you get opinions from those who oppose school, or educational choice, and freedom.

I do not know where you got that statistic from, but I have never, and I do a boat load of research; come across that one.

If that is your only example; to put it mildly it is a poor one.

Isolation can be a contributing factor to suicide, but isolation is rarely part of home schooling, actually it is not even on the radar screen.

Home schoolers are often times over involved, and have the rare challenge of making sure they are home long enough to complete their book studies.

For factual information on that topic, and the causes go to;

http://www.suicidology.org/displaycommon...

http://www.suicidology.org/associations/...

Some books that I would recommend you read on how in fact conventional/traditional schooling is a problem for most, and not persuing an alternative education at home, or outside the school system are;

Underground, A History of American Education

byJohn Taylor Gatto.

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/

The Case Against Adolescence; Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen.

By Robert Epstein Ph.D.

You may want to check your local library, or Amazon.

Addition:

Just curious, do you have the name of this "home school association" you say had these statistics?

Answer 5

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Answer 6

It does not seem that you are looking for accurate facts/statistics about homeschooling but are looking for inaccuracies that will support your stance against homeschooling.  However, there are no statistics that support your very poor example.

This is a forum for homeschoolers, those thinking about homeschooling, and those looking for homeschooling support.

Answer 7

can i ask just what this is for?????

sorry nothing negative about how i was raised from me just what do you have against it??

Answer 8

I never heard of that one

According to one college study homeschoolers are 2-3 grades above public schoolers in knowledge and 1 grade above private schoolers.  This is by age 8.

Homeschoolers OUT perform brick schoolers by a 2 to 1 margin.

10% of brick schoolers (typically Asians and Middle Easterners) are in the top of their class while 20% (mostly whites) are in the top of their class in homeschool

40% of brick schoolers fail and 20% drop out.

Only 20% of homeschoolers fail

It's a 2 to 1 margin.

50% of brick schoolers do barely passing to acceptable

80% of homeschoolers do barely passing to acceptable.

A percentage of homeschoolers get priority consideration by private colleges.  Brick schoolers are lumped into the general pool

Far less homeschoolers get pregnant before the age of 16 vs brick schoolers

Far less homeschoolers use drugs or alchol than brick schoolers of the same age

We're talking PER CAPITA

We're talking PERCENTAGE within the ranks

Homeschoolers, mostly the religious ones, are by are large more mature, social, friendly, affable.

I know of NO homeschooler who has taken a gun and shot up a school yard or mall.  This cannot be said for brick schoolers or Postal employees.

A far lower percentage of homeschoolers have bomb making materials in their bedrooms

The percentage of brick schoolers doing this is small (under 1%) but non the less exists

The ONLY homeschoolers posing a public threat are those involved in extremist religions or xeonphobic families, which is a very small percentage.

And more than half of those would do the same things in a brick school.

More than 25% of homeschoolers who attempt college succeed.

Only 5% of brick schoolers tend to succeed.

The most prominent current homeschooler is Conolezze Rice who was schooled in a Church basement for half of her life by her mother (a public school teacher) and father (Baptist minister).

She holds a Doctorate degree now did her Undergraduate studies at Notre Dame (she's a BAPTIST not a Cathloic) and works for the Federal Government.

Answer 9

There are no statistics or "facts" on how homeschooling is bad. Did your teacher assign you this or is this your own choice of topic? If your teacher assigned this, then that is outrageous and just as bad as assigning somebody to find facts to show why a particular race or religion is bad. If it's your own topic, you won't get far because the only thing that will back it up is opinion, not fact.

Answer 10

Right on, Glurpy.

You want anti-homeschool propoganda-well, there is a problem with that-even societies that HATE homeschool and want to do everything they can to prove it to be a bad thing are unable to come up with a study that shows as a whole that homeschool is bad. There are plenty of studies that show how BENEFICIAL it is, however all the bad things that apply to homeschooled children also apply to publicly educated children. Such as your example.........not only is that not an accurate example, but a lot of kids in PUBLIC school commit suicide......in fact MORE publicly educated children commit suicide than their homeschool contemporaries.

The bottom line......even people who WANT to prove homeschool is bad have yet to find a valid leg to stand on.

Homeschooled kids are VERY well socialized, and those who are not cannot blame it on being homeschooled, as there are unsocial publicly educated kids

Homeschooled kids excel in darn nearly any cirucmstance you can fathom, and most go on to receive college educations.

I know that's not what you are looking for-but, unfortunately for you, outside of OPINION what you are looking for does not exist

Answer 11

What Homeschooling Association are you talking about and where did you get that piece of cr*& data you spouted.  

Like Dude, if you are like trying to inflame and draw like bogus responses, like you like probably should stop cause like it is a like violation of like the community guidelines here in YA.  

Like if you are doing like a report for public school,  you might like get your head wrapped like around the topic before you like ask.  

PS  Homeschooling is not bad.  Ignorance is bad.

You are welcome.

Answer 12

64% of all statistics are made up on the spot... Like this one and the one you spat out.

Answer 13

dude, what do have agaisnt homeschooling? do you have something on a homeschooled kid?