What kinds of kids should be homeschooled?

Question

I am doing a research report on homeschooling and one of my paragraphs is about what kinds of kids should be homeschooled, or would do better if they were homeschooled. SO what do you think??

Answer 1

Almost any child can suceed in home school. It is the ability to do what works best for the child that makes it sucessful. I have one that is a "normal" girl and 1 that is a special needs boy and both are doing very well I just have to take more breaks and go slower with my boy. He is devlopmentally and mentally behind (not disabled just behind). What doesn't work is sticking 30 kids in a class room and talking at them all day.

Answer 2

Anyone can be home schooled.   There is no "kind" of child that does best.  

However, home schooling is not for everyone.   Home schooling takes dedication and hard work from the parents.

Answer 3

Just my opinion. Only those children whose parents have education degrees should be home-schooled. The parent should have proven credentials.

Answer 4

The kind of kid whose parents are willing to homeschool him.

Answer 5

All kinds of kids benefit from one on one instruction, teachers who are personally invested in their education,  a freer learning environment that is geared toward their personal interests and an absence of peer pressure and bullying.

Answer 6

Children with developmental disabilities that would not thrive in a traditional school environment.  Essentially, children with severe mental impairment that may never learn beyond an elementary level.

Answer 7

Those whose parents are good parents and want to homeschool.

That's truly as much as I can say. I can't say, for example, "Gifted kids," because if a gifted child doesn't have a parent who wants to homeschool and make it work for the child, then not every gifted kid should homeschool.

If we're assuming parents who are going to make things work well in homeschooling, then specifically I would say any child who doesn't fit the norm, because the public school system is designed for a norm, so all those who don't fit it--gifted, dyslexic, autistic, Asperger's syndrome, ADD/ADHD, etc.--would benefit more by being homeschooled by conscientious parents.

Answer 8

The following are the types of children who could benefit from being homeschooled:

-Children who are gifted and otherwise would be wasting time and feeling frustrated in classes that are too slow for them

-Children who have a learning disability or are slow in some way, so they can go at their own pace and not fall further and further behind.

-Children who have a mix of being 'behind' and 'ahead'. I personally know a girl who had a severe learning disability but was otherwise quite gifted (she couldn't read until she was 10 or 11, but understood college-level texts). Fortunately, her mother, a public school teacher, took her out and homeschooled her so that she didn't get trapped in a special ed. track.

-Children with physical difficulties who find that the school environment is unable to deal with their needs

-Children who are not developmentally ready to sit in a class all day--virtually all boys under the age of 8 and a number of those who are older

-Children who are shy and who might get overlooked by a teacher who has to deal with an entire class...the squeaky wheel gets the grease, you know

-Children who are bubbly and social who might have their spirits crushed by being ordered not to talk by a teacher trying to manage the rest of the class and can't spend too much time on a few noisy children

-Children who have very definite ideas about what they want to learn and who might lose interest in school if they don't get to learn what they find interesting

-Children who aren't sure what they care about, who might never discover their passion while in a classroom (read: institutionalized) setting

-Children who learn best in 'non-standard' ways, e.g. kinesthetic learners who might not be able to learn well if they are forced to sit still

-Children who might have creativity stifled by the conformity that most schools implicitly require

-Children who would be attending a bad or dangerous school

-Children who would be attending a good school but are forced to be in a bad teacher's class (a not uncommon problem)

I think there are some categories I forgot, but that will do to start.

Answer 9

All kids can be HS'ed.  However, it takes dedicated parents.  The majority of HS'ed kids who are HS'ed for a reason other than that's what their parents want (faith issues, safety) are typically gifted or delayed, have a medical need (mental or physical), have ADD/ADHD (a classroom would be torture for them), were intensely bullied at PS, live in a very poor school district, move around a lot (military), or are from a family that doesn't like the PS system, but can't affored a private school.

I'm generalizing a LOT.  There are HS'ed students from every race, religion, developmental skill level, income bracket, etc.

I always wonder why so many PS'ed kids do research papers about HS'ing.  Was your topic selected by you, or your teacher?  Or are you HS'ed and writing something for your curriculum/program?

Answer 10

Different types of children...different types of family.

I think that parents of children in public schools need to seriously look at it for most kids due to the dumbing down of most public schools.  The no child left behind is dumbing down our brightest students.  Those that have the potential to excel are being held back at alarming rates because teachers don't have time for them.  They are getting bored and loosing interest.  So, we are giving up a majority of our best and brightest for the mediocre.

Parents who have children who are having problems adjusting socially due to bullying and other harassment.  (My cousin is homeschooling her daughter because she kept getting sexually harassed at school by a gang of boys.  She was in the 3rd grade at the time.)

Mostly it is any child that the parent has noticed is falling through the cracks...and since the cracks are the size of the grand canyon...that is a  lot of children.

I would say that the children who need to be home schooled are the children who have parents who want to have some semblance of control over their child's education.