What are the pros and cons of home schooling?

Question

I'm in 10th grade and, lately, I've been thinking about talking to my parents about if I could be home schooled. Is there a way you can get all your high school credits/being home schooled without having to have a parent teach you the courses? For example, is there something online that I could do?

Answer 1

Pros:

They will receive a far superior education.

They will learn real socialization, not the artificial forced socialization of the public school system. In real life do you only socialize with 25 other people your own age from your neighborhood?

They will be more likely to get into the college of their choice as many colleges actively seek out home schooled kids.

They will actually learn to think and have problem solving

skills instead of just memorizing standard answers.

You will probably have a much closer relationship with your children.

Cons:

Having to deal with people who, out of ignorance, throw around the socialization myth

Answer 2

I am home schooled and in 10th grade...

homeschooling is pretty cool.

you get to work at your own pace

you can go places on school days

you can pretty much do anything you want (with parental permission of course)

the only thing i really miss is the social part of public school but i have a few of my cousins and my friend Anthony that i can hang out with so it isnt too bad =D

Answer 3

im just gonna list some pros and cons cause i was too lazy to read the small stuff. sorry hehe.

but i guess

Pro's i think about..

1. My Favorite part is you could prob sleep in haha.

2. You may learn better depending on your learning style

3. More individual help in your learning

4. If you can't get your homework done they are closer to your family than a actual teacher and understands more.. get it haha confusing.

5. Less work.

6. instead of like staying on a certain thing the whole class deosnt get but you feel tot comfortable about it you can move on in home schooled.

There is more its late here im tired

Cons i think about

1. not having such a social life.

2. you probably wouldn't have much friends sense sports and that is where you get your friends.. for me atleast

3. you wouldn't be able to do sports or fit in at sports

4.if you do bad.. your parents def no.

5 I REALLY CANT THINK OF MANY CONS hehe.. sorry but i suggest having chore classes like History.. math... science... launguages and english and then take fun classes or other classes in school liike half and half

Answer 4

Yeah pretty much all of homeschooling ways aren't from a parent teaching you thats the old fashioned way still good though. I just started about 6 months ago (grade 10 now finished with it though) and started where I left off from just used my own books and pretty much had my dad assign stuff and I did it. So far the only cons really are I don't get to see my friends as much. Pros oh too many to list you can work at your own pace, SO MUCH FREE TIME, you can do whatever you want when you want everything is so free..., you can go do anything you want stay out late on school nights just do whatever and relax, I really want to get a job though so I can make some more money and make some new friends thats the only downside really its harder to make new friends...

Answer 5

You could do all your subjects by distance education. I'm at school in yr 12 but cause of it's small size half my subjects are distance ed. I do them at school but I don't see any reason why you shouldn't be able to do it at home. But why don't you want to do high school at school. From personal experience I can say that doing year 11 and 12 at school would be the best since you have all the teacher support, and you get to hang with your mates at lunch. School goes by soooo quickly and you usually don't realise it until you leave but school is the best years of your life.  

Answer 6

You can pursue courses through an online study program, or you can buy cirriculum-in-a-box. Or you can become an unschooler - or an eclectic schooler - and use no cirriculum other than that which you might buy to pursue your interests. If you have a career you're planning to pursue, or a college you're hoping to attend, you should sign up for some jr college classes that prep you for the career or the college track. Contact your state homeschool orgs for info on how to create your paperwork for submissions to college, and for info on legal requirements for your state.

http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/regi...

http://www.hslda.org/laws/default.asp

This next part was fun, thank you... and I should say that this list applies to MY family, who doesn't test, or have grades, and we don't use cirriculum.  Other families would have a different list:

Pros:

-learn at your pace

-decide what you want to learn

-keep your own schedule

-no wasted time standing in lines

-no wasted time corralling huge groups of people

-choose your own friends, not forced to choose friends because you're the same age, or your last name has the same letter of the alphabet, or because you happen to sit near each other

-choose your friends based on common interests, and never segregate yourself from potential friendships because a person is older or younger than you, looks different, has a different religion, culture or race.

- you don't categorize people by grades, thus don't look "up" to the older person, or "down" at the younger

-no bells ringing to keep you moving from room to room

-no bells ringing just as you are starting to socialize with a friend during that 5 min between classes- one of those rare school times to "socialize" with friends at school

- no rushed lunch -shovelling food down your throat while you try to squeeze in your biggest social time at school - of about 20 minutes.

- no detention for passing a few words written on paper to a friend during class - trying desperately to get a moment of "social" time with friends

- study hall can be anytime when homeschooled

- homeschoolers can meet up at disneyland on a school day and there's no crowds

- no one tells you your wrong for haivng opinions that differ from theirs (adults or kids), and if they do, it's so uncommon that you are rarely daunted by it.

- when you're really curious about a topic, you study it deep - vs. rushing and moving on to the next topic that needs to be covered for the test

- no tests - you are accountable to self (or parents), not to standards that are created by someone else to prove to parents (and taxpayers) that schools are teaching their kids

- no grades - you are not judged by whether you learned something according to my or anyone else's standards - you are learning what you need or want to learn for your future, or you will eventually take an interest in college or a career and then start tailoring your learning toward that interest.

- you could go all the way to age 16 without ever really studying math, then when you decide you want to pursue college, you could spend 6 months in math text books and be current with even the best of math students at public school.

- ditto that previous statement and substitute any other school subject

- no horrible school lunches or standing in line

- no people pointing or making fun of you while in line

- Join sports at all kinds of levels via the city and other sports orgs, colleges

-Join arts and music at all kinds of levels via city and non profits, colleges

-socialize at your own pace and have lots of time to do it

- develop great social skills because you're not limited by cliques, bullying, ages, and ringing bells that interrupt

-meet lots of other homeschooled kids to play with who are not obsessed with fitting in, looking like everyone else, or being the best at everything.

-- long long recess - where you get to play all day and when you have a fight with a friend, you actually have time to resolve it together, or with the help of parents who are on your side and have an interest in guiding you to learn how to resolve conflicts peacefully and independently, and KINDLY.

- learn to quit when something isn't working (something school doesn't seem to value)

-learn how to learn - if you are interested you seek it out, you don't wait for someone to make homework

- learn how to critique - since you're not forced to criticize for a grade, you learn criticism that is heartfelt, and brainful, (my word), not something you've learned to hammer out to please the teacher.

- you get to be close to your family members