Why do people hate homeschooling?

Question

Why do people hate homeschooling?

Answer 1

People who know little about it might buy into some negative stereotype, e.g. they're all religious freaks teaching their children to be bigots. Many have totally bought into the lie that education is something that has to be given to you by a qualified teacher in a 'proper' school and so see HSing as child abuse.

I think some are afraid that HS might really give a better education (they've read news reports saying exactly that) and therefore put their PS kids at a disadvantage and they don't like it. There's a subset of that group who have a nagging feeling that they should be doing it themselves, particularly if their children are not happy at school and they express their guilty feelings by attacking the parents who are doing it.

Then there are the PS kids who bully anyone who is different to them anyway, so them attacking HSing and HSers is no surprise.

You get the few who were/are HSed and blame their personal problems on it, but they'd blame PS for the same problems if they'd been sent there.

So ignorance, fear, guilt and being messed up.

Answer 2

I don't hate it, it's just that the ones I have seen have been far inferior to the public schools.  Public school teachers go to college and learn what they need to know to be a teacher.  All of the women I know who have homeschooled their kids have been women who never went to college and were probably lucky to get out of high school.  They do not have the capacity to teach complicated subjects (like high school advanced math).  In fact, the women I knew didn't even understand jr. high algebra.  How do they expect their kids to go out into the world adequately educated?  Please remember that I said that these were the ones I personally have known, and am not saying everyone is like that.  And going to a fundamentalist church as I used to for many years, I have known many of them.  They were all like this..... ignorant housewives with absolutely no capacity to teach a kid beyond adding and subtracting and teaching them how to read, which by the way I already knew how to do before I ever stepped foot into kindergarten.

Answer 3

I can't answer for everyone that hates homeschooling,  just for myself. Given an intelligent, creative parent with some training on how children learn, and a willingness to find daily opportunities to instill socialization skills like sharing, taking turns, etc., I'm not against it.

What I do hate about it are the people homeschooling who I wouldn't trust to teach my cat how to use his litter box. I've met home schoolers who read few books, have no  clue about how children learn at different ages, and are extreme control "freaks" who hate the idea of their children getting ideas they didn't instill. It's a pain dealing with their children who can't relate to other children, particularly if they're not family, can't or won't take turns, and have a narrow range of what they know.

True, there are home schooled children going to major accredited universities. But the home schooling community seems loathe to admit that if they fail, they can send their ill-prepared children to a public school. A public school in the US must take all children, and provide an appropriate education for them. So the hard cases get "dumped" on the schools, and the HS community gets to trumpet how successful they are.

But what depresses me most about home schooling is that when it involves a bright, motivated parent, only their children get the benefit of that energy. Public schools go begging for intelligent, involved parents who are willing to lend a hand. I've volunteered in public schools to teach children computer skills, reading, and spelling. Your local public school would LOVE to have a volunteer to do one-on-one teaching.

I know  this  won't be selected as a "Best Answer" but if the  asker was asking for serious objections, those are mine. I don't pretend to speak for millions of other parents.

I'm a product of public  schools, up to and including universities, and have two children who attended public schools. One is a 4.0 student in graduate school who is designing and publishing his own games, the other is a high functioning child with Asperger's Syndrome who has been able to make eye contact, and even  make some friends at school. I have reason to believe that wouldn't have happened even if I could have afforded to home school him.

Incidentally, I take care to try to write grammatically correct sentences that are correctly spelled. I wouldn't judge the home schooling community by their representatives online, but  if their children learn their  lazy writing habits, I fear for them.

Answer 4

i was home schooled for a little while n it was rubbish, i dint learn much and i fel really detached coz i never saw my frends at skl n they dint liv around me so i was like a loner, lmao, but now im in a public secondary skl n its well gud, i hav loadsa frends n ive learnt loads =D im predicted top marks for SATs

Answer 5

My parents are in a cult and the cult said all the kids had to be home schooled.  I hate that I was home schooled because they did a c**p job. People go to uni for years to get a degree to teach children and that is the way it should be. For me there was just some random adult or older child and they read you a few pages from some book or got you to do a but of math and ta da now you have had school for the day. Till this day ( I am a 30 year old mother of 2) I still feel hindered by my lack of formal education. So if you are going to Home school your kids make sure you know what you are doing.

Answer 6

For most, it is because they really know very little about it, so they believe the myths about unsocial kids who never leave their homes.

Many Public School teachers and administrators hate it because they feel it threatens their jobs, every child homeschooled means that the district gets a little less money. (I don't quite understand why, if that is the case, do homeschoolers still pay the school portion of the property tax.  So what do they do with money if it doesn't go to the school... its not the taxes I object to, as much as the idea that the school only gets it if "x" number of kids enroll.  I wonder where it goes if they don't enroll, I know I don't get back!)

A few kids hate it because they are homeschooled badly.  Either not being given social opportunities or not being properly educated.  They are in the minority, but they tend to be a vocal minority on Y!A.

There are a few parents who hate it because believe they should do it, and automatically feel judged for not doing it.  

Still, like I said before, I think most who hate it just don't know anything about it though, it really comes down mostly to ignorance.

Answer 7

A better question is....Why do people love it?

I (Personally) hate it, because it is the root of all my problems, I have no friends, no outside life, I hate doing school at home all day, I've lost so much people skills because of it I don't know how to deal with people, I'm depressed because my life is an absolute waste, I have no idea why I even wake up every day....

But apparently  I'm one of a kind though, but I'm not here to rant anymore....

But I guess some people just don't like what they don't know, or maybe it's because they think alot of homeschoolers end up like me....Which is not the case....Again, apparently I'm one of a kind....

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Answer 8

Most people don't.

Only a few people who have more prejudice than information about homeschool actually hate it. There are people who were homeschooled and that method of education was a poor fit to their family. Most of those people still don't hate homeschooling in general, they just know it was not for them.

Answer 9

Those that have been homeschooled and hated it were not given the chance to have a real education. They were not part of it. Most of these people are given a book and are expected to read it and learn it. No interaction with other people and probably not given anything fun, just kept their nose in a text book.

A good experience needs a teacher that was excited about educating and education, a curriculum that does not use text books but "living books" (unabridged books written by original authors), well planned field trips to nature areas, businesses, etc. to teach how the world works from first hand experiences, and interaction with other people (camps, other homeschooled children, sports, etc).

Homeschooling is a full time job for many people. You have to have more than a "to do list" for kids each day. You have to be committed to the education of your child and involve them in the world, not cut them off.

Answer 10

Taking away the relax time moments.

Answer 11

Because people tend not not like what they don't know or don't understand.

Answer 12

Because so many people hate anything that deviates from "normal." They think that just because that's the way it's always been done, it needs to be done that way forever! In other words, closed-minded people!

Answer 13

Homeschooled people would probably hate it because it makes them feel weird or different (I'm homeschooled, but I like it :)) and people who aren't homeschooled seem to think of it as being "special" or "Pampered" and hold resentment and distrust. I agree with the lady above, anything that deviates from what's "normal" tends to be flat-out hated.

Answer 14

Simply because it's against the norm. Anything that is different than what "most people" do is usually looked down upon. It doesn't matter if it is a better way to do things it will be looked at with a bit of skepticism.