What do you think of home schooling?

Question

Do you think it is right or wrong? Do you think the child would get a proper education? A proper social life? Please state your reasons aswell.

Answer 1

I am totally sold out on homeschooling.

I think it's right if the parent is going to do the job with discipline and integrity, modeling correct behavior and attitudes as they teach the academics.

I think it's wrong if the parent isn't going to do the job well (remember, "well" doesn't mean just academics).

Proper education:  you need to know enough math and enough language skills to learn whatever else you need to know in life.  

Nowadays in most jobs, paid or unpaid, it isn't enough to learn certain things.  You must keep up as knowledge increases and things change.  

If you have a good math foundation, and you need more, you can learn more building on that solid foundation.  If you have good reading and writing skills, and you need to learn about anything at all, you can do it.

Proper social life:  This requires definition.  I don't think public schooled kids have a proper social life, that prepares them to enter the adult world and socialize in a mature way, from what I've seen.  Homeschooling may or may not do this, but public schooling creates quite odd social structures that take a few years to outgrow in some cases, once the kids become young adults.   Some never overcome the handicap of that socialization.

Proper character:  This is really important too, maybe the most important thing actually.  The thing holding most people back who graduate from highschool is their own character.

Homeschooling is better at teaching this although it is not automatic.  

Homeschooling lets a parent teach their kids things like self-discipline, honesty, integrity, much better than regular school can.  

In traditional school settings (traditional for a hundred years or so)  where there are few adults, a lot of academics to teach, test and track, and most of the social influence is from other young people, doing this is problematic.  

Parents can probably do it after school in some cases.  I know schools are attempting to get in some character education now, is it working though?

Answer 2

my son is 14 has the most awesome social life is far above other students  and is home schooled he doesnt miss out on anything - If you have a good program you have friends outtings teachers everything a real school has even sports and pe days people with thoughts like yours think wrongly about homeschoolers homeschoolers dont sit in a closet they have the same life as any other kids its all up to you how social you want to be and proper education do think homeschooling parents are idiots no most of us have programs we follow with all materials including teachers

Answer 3

As a home schooled child myself I can tell you that socializing is not a problem. I've heard of very few home schooled kids that ran into social trouble, and in their cases it was due to parental smothering and being over protected. Most home schoolers are doing so because of religious reasons, so church activities are great ways of socializing. Other ways are by joining Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts.

As for the education, it depends on how involved the parent is and what curriculum you use.

But it isn't for everyone. My brother was also home schooled (for most of the time) but he began to neglect his studies and as a result he almost didn't graduate high school.

Answer 4

I think home school is the only way to go, any child I have will be home schooled!  For myself I attended public school till Jr. High and then was home schooled, I got a much better education with home school than I ever did with public school.  Also public school has its "agenda" which is nothing but harmful to 95% of the children, oh and social life?  A real social life is OUTSIDE  of school not within.

Answer 5

I think homeschooling done by caring, dedicated parents is a good thing. I think homeschooling done by parents who are not caring or dedicated is not a good thing.

I've met many homeschoolers who were well educated. I've met a few whose academics were "not as good as" those in public school, but they were great kids who had a vision of their future life that didn't require academics like that. I've met the very rare few whose parents had somewhat abandoned the kids academically and the kids wanted more but weren't getting it. But this is very, very rare. It really boils down to the parents: caring, dedicated parents will provide a "proper" education to their children; non-caring or non-dedicated parents (or those who just can't seem to get a clear vision in mind of how to make it all work) will not provide a proper education.

A proper social life? By whose standards???? You go to one country and ask about what a proper social life is, they'll give you one answer. Go to another, or a different culture, and they'll give you another. You can go to one family and they'll give you a vastly different answer than their next-door neighbour. If you mean can homeschooled children get the social exposure they need, yes they can. Again, it depends on the dedication of the parents to make this happen.

My reasons for the above? Because I'm a homeschooling parent and know many homeschooling parents and have seen it for myself.

Answer 6

I believe homeschool is great when it is done correctly.  By correctly I do not mean by following a specific pattern, but by being open and willing to try different things until you find what works for your family.

Statistics prove the educational benefits.

The social benefits are real social interactions with people of all ages, instead of only interacting with those who were born the same year.

To be successful homeschool needs a few things.

Dedicated parents who are willing to sacrifice if necessary to give their children what they need.

Parents with basic literacy, or a tutor.

Access to a Public Library or a good home library.

Answer 7

I love it. There are many homeschool stats available online, but the best reason I can give you to support my feelings on homeschool is that it is working so well for my child, academically and socially. If you could meet her before and after homeschool, all of your questions would be answered.

Answer 8

as with anything it works only when it works.

Unfortunately brick school only works 40% of the time while homeschool works, based on college studies, 60% of the time.

The average homeschooler is 2-3 grades above the average brick public schooler and 1 grade about the average brick private or parochial schooler

statistically 99.9% of the school and mall shooters are brick schoolers not homeschoolers

most of the disruptions and detension incidents in brick school comes from socialization.

Statistically drug and alchol usage is mostly among brick schoolers

most of teenage preganacies happen to brick schoolers