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Why homeschool when you can send your kids to public schools?

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Please explain to me why parents do this, it makes no sense to me. thanks <3

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  1. I HAVE to right now b/cuz we&#039;re out of the country, but the second we get home his butt is back in class!!..lol

    Personally I think school is great for learning social skills as well as getting a much better education from an actual teacher rather than me! I try, but I KNOW I am not doing a great job.. satisfactory, I&#039;d say.. but, yes I agree with you unless the kids maybe get teased too much and it traumatizes them.. in that case i would HS, and get them in activities for the socialization part..

    good question.

    oh, and our school system back home was excellent.


  2. Why send them to a public school?

    I home school because my daughter couldn&#039;t subtract at the halfway point through her second year of second grade, she was coming home with 4 hours of home work and was beat up three times on the bus and the school would do nothing to stop it!

    I home school my son because they wanted a busy 4 yo on ADHD meds. He&#039;s not ADHD had him tested! They wouldn&#039;t give him speech therapy (the reason we enrolled him into the pre k program)

    We continue because we feel that public schools indoctrinate children instead of educating them. If they would teach both sides of issues then it would be education. To teach evolution only is indoctrination. We also fell that socialization is not sticking 30 kids all the same age and economic status in a room. The only other time you are placed with people your age is in a nursing home. The difference is that by the time you are old enough for a nursing home you have hopefully learned how to socialize in the real world.

    The funny thing is that why people send their kids to a public day care (I mean school) is a mystery to me! We tried it and realize it&#039;s not for us!

  3. Sometimes it is for religious reasons. Most public schools do not teach it.

    Sometimes because the parents work makes them relocate a lot. Easier to teach them instead of pulling them in and out of school.

  4. Children who are homeschooled usually are smarter, have better manners, can speak well and with clarity, set higher standards on themselves, become active in the world quicker, think for themselves and can be more loyal, respectful, considerate, compassionate and generous.  

    Anti-homeschoolers claim that homeschooled children are socially deprived.  Well, it&#039;s not true!  I am homeschooled (8th grade) and I have a dozen or so close friends and a dozen or two more friends of all ages, all across the US!

    Yes, they are some stupid homeschoolers, no matter what the education is, some children can&#039;t or won&#039;t learn.  And they are the &#039;jumper&#039; homeschoolers.  They are nice people, but they are very reclusive and secluded and protective of their children and this wrong.  

    And homeschooled children can be as active in extra-curricular activities as public schooled children.  I was one of the top 100 geography students in TN for 2008, they were also at least two other homsechooled students at the state semi-finals and four or five more I didn&#039;t know if they were homeschooled or not.  I participate in a homeschooled band, have done lacrosse, soccer, t-ball, figure skating, ballroom dancing lesson, piano lessons, flute lessons, tap dancing, tennis and art classes.  At least that is all I can think of right now!  

    Homeschoolers are seriously misunderstood.  If you haven&#039;t noticed, as this generation are getting out into the world, they are doing well for themselves.  They are a multitude of homeschooled children across the globe who have their own businesses. My little brother is one of them.

    Anyway, I&#039;ve never been in a public school, so I can&#039;t describe what it would be like to go to one, but I do know that homeschoolers are outstripping public schooled children as they enter the world at the same time.

  5. .... my thought is that public schools are just getting way out of hand with all this homework and projects and stuff, and homeschools are a lot smaller so the teacher can focus more on each student so like Lucy needs to work on her equation solving or Billy needs to read each night or something like that......

  6. Every child learns at a different rate. Some kids need more 1:1 attention in order to learn best.  With class sizes being so big it is hard to get the teachers help unless you are really struggling , and then it is often too late to keep caught up.

  7. We homeschool because we can create a curriculum that meets our son&#039;s needs, goals, talents, interests, and learning style.   At least we try.   (smile)

    We learn only what we want to learn and by teaching at home, we can renew the love of learning that children have before they enter institutionalized class rooms.

    I can give assignments to my son without worrying about 25 other students who may be more advanced or less advanced in a particular subject.    It is a great time saver to be able to get the academic work done and have more time for fun after the school work.

  8. This is interesting because I could switch the question.  Why send your kids to public school when you can homeschool?

    There are so many more opportunities available homeschooling than possible in public school.  There are places to go and people to meet that there just isn&#039;t time for when you are stuck in a classroom so much of the day.  

    There is more time to learn what you want, when you want.  We can travel, absorb a wide variety of cultures and a more diverse population than in public school.  No school can have the vast diversity that is in the rest of the world.  

    And we still can do some classroom work if we want, so there is nothing missing.  

    Maybe you can explain why you think parents send their kids to a public school, it makes no sense to me.  

    Thanks :D

  9. Are you a parent?  Do you enjoy being with your kids?  Do you want to make sure they have the best education possible?  If you answer yes to these 3 questions, then you would be a good candidate to be a homeschool parent.  If you answer no to ANY of these questions (which I assume you did) then you do not need to homeschool.  It is not for you to understand.  If you are not interested in it, you don&#039;t need to do it.  BTW, every parent is a homeschool parent until they send their children off to public school.  They teach them to use a fork and spoon, get dressed, brush their teeth, etc.  Teaching them to read is not any different.  I would never hire someone to teeth my kids how to clean up their room, and I don&#039;t need someone else to teeth my kids to add either.

  10. some parents dont want there kids to learn the things that we learn there.... some of the language that is used is very bad.. and some just dont like public schools... they just dont want there kids to learn some of the things that they do..

  11. Well the education in public schools is lacking and some parents feel they can do a better job. Some parents want to shelter their children from the world and all that is bad, i.e. how cruel kids can be. There is a hilarious South Park episode that deals with this issue. The main point is that yes, public schools are lacking in education, but children need to develop social skills. They should not be so sheltered from the world that when they get out on their own they go crazy and act out. Parents&#039; job is to prepare their child for the world so that they are prepared when they get out there. Some parents, unfortunately, just don&#039;t realize this

  12. Some kids are made fun at, some get in trouble, some need special education that public schools don&#039;t give you, some just feel like it, and lastly, have you noticed that most home schooled kids are very smart? That&#039;s because when they&#039;re home schooled, the parents have the chance to teach them extra little stuff, and they turn out to be very, very, very, smart.

  13. Because some schools are deteriorating to the point where there is bad association, illmannered undisciplined children and it can be dangerous.  Dont put them down, some are just trying to survive.  thanks for asking.

  14. The public schools in our area spend the entire year &quot;teaching to the test&quot; instead of inspiring children to learn about things.

    The public schools in our area are run like &quot;baby boot camp&quot; and &quot;elementary prison&quot; instead of schools.

    There are middle schoolers having oral $&amp;# in the stairwells.

    Guns and drugs and bullying and diseases are somehow an &#039;accepted reality&#039; in public schools today.

    These are NOT the public schools that I went to.  I don&#039;t want my kids exposed to THAT kind of reality until they are emotionally mature enough, and have the moral fortitude to deal with, all of that.

    Honestly, though, the people who have it the worst are the teachers.  They are overworked, underpaid and snowed under by red tape and bureaucracy, test scores and book-keeping.  The district administration wastes money, and the teachers&#039; unions prevent truly awful teachers from being fired, which means that school districts are hemorrhaging money that could otherwise be going to support teachers with better classroom budgets.

    I know some truly BRILLIANT teachers who are hanging on by their toenails in a system that has failed an entire generation of children.  In another ten years, we will have beaten down those teachers so much that they have all fled to private schools.

    It is a sad state.

    But since I can&#039;t really do anything to FIX the situation, I keep my kids at home and give them an education that will serve them for a lifetime.

    : )  Petra

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  15. Why send your kids to public school when you can homeschool them?

    Why have kids if someone else is going to spend more time with them than the parents do?

    It makes no sense to me that someone should not understand why parents would want to be with their kids, would want to raise their kids, would want to educate their kids themselves.

    For us, sending our kids to school makes no sense for our family. The inflexible academics, the social groupings, the hours, the ridiculous amount of homework the schools have here... Why send them to that when they can have an academic environment tailored to them, can participate in activities with various ages (a much more normal structure for humans), can have a more relaxing lifestyle, can avoid adopting some of the choice attitudes and beliefs that are prevalent in schools (like, you&#039;re just not cool unless you have an iPod or cell phone--even in gr. 6!). There are so many reasons for us to not send our kids. But above all, the primary reason is that we are their parents and we had them and want to raise them, not have somebody else (teacher plus same-age immature peers) do the bulk of it for 12 years.

  16. Because public schools don&#039;t really teach you anything - they teach you the TEST -

    Isn&#039;t it funny how the last 7 or 8 spelling bee champions were all homeschooled.

    the argument against it is that they have no social skills -

    I find that hard to believe, maybe its because they take things a bit more seriously - and as far as I am concerned we need more homeschooled kids - Maybe they will grow up and change this country for the better.

  17. There are lots of benifits form gettting home-schooled!

    Kids can usally concrate way more and do better in work when there&#039;re home-schooled becasue in schoool there&#039;s kids all around and distractions the child.

    As a kid i always wanted to be home-schooled becasue then i wouldn&#039;t have to get up early in the morning to go to the school bus and my parents wouldn&#039;t have to waste gas since i lived far away form school.

    The main reason was becasue i got teased alot becuase of the way i look and i thought that if i got home-schooled then it would just be the teacher and me. 1 on 1.

    Also there&#039;re isn&#039;t as much peer presure ofcourse so it&#039;s alot safer, that way you don&#039;t have to worry about if your kids are going to get involved in drugs or not etc. So i think that&#039;s a VERY big plus.

    And if some parents worry too much...that if there kid/s will be freindless but they can always make friends out of school so i encourage them not to worry too much about that.

    All in All getting home-schooled is very very beifictal and best for a child but it does a cost a bit of too much money. :)

    Hope that Helps

    ~~amanda~~

    peace

  18. We homeschool for so many reasons, i could write a book on it. Beyond special needs and academia, i chose to homeschool because children deserve the same dignity and respect that adults receive, and there is no possible way to achieve that within the system of public school. They are treated like cattle, herded together and moved through regardless of ability or desire.

    At home, my children can choose who they are, what they want. We unschool so that they can develop their personalities at their own rate, without being shamed or encouraged to be something different. They can learn as much or as little as they want, they can play with friends, hang out with their elders, build a trebuchet, whenever they care to, not at the whim of the adults in their lives. Last week they dug a ditch in the backyard, just to watch the water flood out. Most kids are stuck on their butts for seven hours a day, listening about this or that, and never get the chance to associate it with real life. Or when the teacher does plan a &#039;field trip&#039;, the kids are so happy to escape the building that they learn nothing except how awful learning is.

    I could go on, but we&#039;re busy learning and living.

  19. Because of the culture of many public schools which is contrary to what parents desire for their children, they choose to educate their children at home.

    Home schooling is way better if the parents are educated, resourceful, and persistent.

  20. Hello, I am home-schooled, and have been all of my life.

    I think that one of the reasons it because you get to spend more time with your family, which is very important to some people, it could be because the parent was home-schooled, or had a very hard time in school and fear the same thing for their own children. I think a reason that I like home-schooling is because I get to spend that time with my family, I feel much closer with my family then my friends are with there families. I feel I know more about Life, I may not be as &quot;book&quot; smart as other people, however, I feel like I have learned so much about my self, and about real life, and that is going to help me more in life then books. It was harder when I was younger because I didn&#039;t know as much as my friends did, there are still many things I don&#039;t know that my friends know, however most of that is useless anyway. If a person is going to home-school, I think they really need to know what is it and how it works. I don&#039;t think people should just home-school for no reason. I think another good reason for home-schooling would be that public schools are always great, the teachers at public schools, I feel, are teaching to the test, and the test would be the CSAP, I don&#039;t feel public school teachers really love what they do. Home-school-er has teachers, they go to classes, or teachers houses with other children, and I feel these teachers love what they are doing. There are many reasons, more then I have said, if you have any other questions for a home-school-er, just Email.

    hellogoodbye14@hotmail.com

    Bye

    I would just like to say to &quot;Toonses&quot;, you have got to be one of the most idiotic people I have ever heard. You say children need social skills, yes; however how is not being aloud to talk in classes social skills? your just sitting there, and as for being prepared for life and what’s out there, I feel I am much more prepared for life then you are, you&#039;ll go to High school and have the same people everyday, and learn things that you probably won’t ever use, will I am out there meeting new people, learning LIFE SKILLS, and things a person really needs, learning about other peoples life, and how they had to live when they where young, learning things that I want to learn, and not learning to a test like you will be, then you will be out of high school and have nothing to do because your not with the same people anymore, your have to learn to make new friends, and a new life, and I will know how to do that.

  21. America&#039;s public school system is horrible.  On international tests of Math and Science we score near the bottom.  Rather than concentrate on fixing that problem, the schools are more interested in being politically correct, not that all political correctness is wrong, but its not the job of the school system to teach kids what to think, its the job of the school system to teach them how to think.

    So while schools are busy having multicultural days, days of silence, animal rights awareness days, and gender equality days, the kids are not learning how to read, write, and do math.  While the schools are handing out condoms and setting up appointments for abortions, the kids are not learning about History.  While the schools teach about every sort of diversity in earnest,  they aren&#039;t noticing the kid who is beat up every day because his clothes are not the same as what everyone else is wearing.

    So while all of that is going on in the Public School, (not to mention guns and drugs being smuggled in) my own kids are learning.  Sometimes we stay home and work out of books, sometimes we go out and visit the library, a museum, a park or a beach.  

    My Kindergartner and my second grader are learning about the Middle Ages, and can probably tell you more about the Ottoman Empire than most of the kids in our public High School, they also learned about earth science this year, and can tell you the layers of the earth, the parts of  volcano, the layers of the atmosphere, the various cloud types, and many other facts.  We are now moving into astronomy and my kids will soon be learning about the 8 planets and the 3 known dwarf planets, (Pluto, Eris, and Ceres).   They will also learn to find various constellations, and we will relate those studies to what we learned last year about the Ancient Greeks and Romans.  Every year they have the same teacher, so they get continued review of what they have already learned.

    My 9th grader also is doing very well, but is not looking forward to biology next year because she knows we will do at least 4 dissections and she doesn&#039;t really want to.   She will also be reading many titles of classic literature next year, and will take an intensive writing course, along with World History, World Geography, Geometry, French, and Art.   Her standardized test scores come back with post High School scores in all but 2 areas, and those 2 are on track, just not ahead.

    So, why would I send my kids to public school when they are doing so well at home?

    Why should public school be the default decision?

    Shouldn&#039;t parents weigh all their options and choose the best education for their children?  For some kids it might be public school that suits them best, for others private school is better, and for others homeschool is best.  Why should everyone make the same choice?

  22. Im not a parent, nor am I homeschooled, but I want to be.

    Sometimes it&#039;s not the parents choices. Sometimes the kids want to be. Maybe their children have an illness that prevents them from attending school often. Maybe the kids are being bullied. Or maybe the schools are just poor quality.

    It&#039;s different for everyone

  23. 1, far far better education (homeschool kids blow doors on the standardized tests)

    2. it&#039;s fun

    3. better socialization

    4. don&#039;&#039;t&#039; have to worry about bad influences

    5. get to be with my cool kids

    6. they helped me w/ home daycare

    7. they are more balance

    8 and on and on

    It makes no sense to me to even consider a public school!

  24. my friend and her brother is home schooled

    both their parentes own their own busniesess and are very stabled finachly

    they go away alot so its more convient for them to not have to deal with all the absents and everything, and its also less distracting

    and that means the kids AND THE PARENTS can wake up later

    and they&#039;ve been to very cool field trips with some otther homeschooled kids....!!

  25. Two possible reasons (among several):

    1) You&#039;re a religious zealot of some variety, and don&#039;t want your child exposed to outside world until you&#039;ve had a chance to thoroughly indoctrinate them.

    2) You recognize the fact that public schools are (by and large) horrible.  They provide your child with a homogenized education that don&#039;t allow your kid to learn at their own pace, or study areas of particular interest.  As a result, many home-schooled children are often several grade levels ahead of their peers attending public school.

    If I had kids (and I&#039;m not planning on it), I definitely take the home-schooling approach.

    Edit:

    As for the &quot;social&quot; issue, school is only one way for kids to get social contact, and not necessarily the best way.  There are also team sports, neighborhood children, church groups and other clubs and activities such as the Girl Scouts.

    In your typical school, throughout much of the school day, kids aren&#039;t even allowed to talk.  How is that good for a child&#039;s social development?

    Second edit: Teaching evolution is not indoctrination.  It&#039;s teaching science.  There is no empirical evidence or experimental support for competing hypotheses (such as Biblical creationism or Intelligent Design), whereas the theory of evolution as a mountain of evidence backing it, many of its predictions have been borne out, and it has yet to be falsified.  It is a cornerstone theory of biology.  Not teaching it would be like failing to teach students about gravity in physics.  As Biblical creationism and Intelligent Design are not legitimate scientific theories, they are inappropriate for science class.  They might be appropriate for a world religions class, however, if presented carefully and in the right context.

    This is part of what I was referring to when I mentioned religious zealotry as a possible motive for homeschooling, and is reason I&#039;m somewhat dubious towards homeschooling, despite the sorry state of our public schools.  If you would hobble your child&#039;s education in the sciences because your sectarian religious beliefs have biased you against major scientific theories which have been effectively proven, you are doing your child a gross disservice.

  26. We prefer not to use the public schools as a free baby sitting service. We prefer NOT to institutionalize our children. We like being with our children 24/7 and we raise better children than school personnel do. We care about our children as a whole including their intellect, morality, spirituality and safety. This will never make sense to you until you become a parent yourself. If you are already a parent then you obviously could care less who is raising your child or what your child is learning. A parent is solely responsible for the outcome of their child.

  27. HOME SCHOOL YOU ARE CLOSER TO YOUR KIDS AND CAN HELP THEM WHEN THEY NEED IT, THERE IS ALSO ALOT MORE FREE TIME FOR HOME SCHOOLED KIDS AND ALOT OF EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES LIKE THE YMCA OFFERS PE FOR HOME SCHOOLED KIDS AND SPORTS TOO

  28. Because I enjoy my child&#039;s company.

    Because I want to preserve his love of and respect for learning.

    Because publics schools standards are deplorable.

    Because I want him to learn to think critically, not just pass tests.

    Because he&#039;s an early reader and many early readers and advanced kids are given a hard time in school, and are not allowed to progress at their own pace.

    Because of all the nonsense that goes on in schools: kids getting suspended for &quot;fighting&quot; when someone else jumps them, zero tolerance, no talking a lunch, no recess, no arts programs, etc..

  29. Because there are many problems in the public schools and parents who choose to homeschool are voting against those things.

    Kids are mean.

    Kids aren&#039;t being taught to think

    Kids aren&#039;t learning, they are learning to take tests.

    Teachers don&#039;t care.

    Children are taught a different morality.

    etc.

  30. There are multiple reasons families choose homeschooling.

    Superior academics.

    More opportunities for real life socialization.

    Protection of child from social, physical and/or sexual abuse at school.

    Freedom to pursue child&#039;s interests and passions.

    Ability to move through school material at child&#039;s own pace.

    Ability to start college courses at a young age.

    The desire to not have the child&#039;s mind controlled by a curriculum which changes with the whims of governmental education committees.

    Keeping a child&#039;s natural love of learning intact.

    Not wasting time on material which is taught solely for the purpose of passing mandated tests...ie, giving the child a good grounding in science, social studies and literature.

    Tailoring the learning experience to each student&#039;s unique learning style and speed rather than a one-size-fits-all approach.

    Those are a few of the many reasons.

  31. i home school becausee my nine year old started coming home talking about vibrators and condoms....and, he was getting bullied from teachers from the beginning...every year the same story....&quot;he takes too long to do his work...he misses recess because he has to finish his work....he gets distracted easily blah blah blah&quot;  the fact is, since i have been home schooling him, it is obvious that he is a thinker and he wants to get it right vs. done right away and wrong...he is really smart and philosophical...he is also really active and requires at least four hours of physical play, some time doing tactile stuff (the school does not offer this), and more attention....he is also very social and we have him involved in a few things where he is learning skills from other adults in our community with other kids, but it is not high demand and still requires commitment on his part....he was also feeling really intimidated by the other kids and teachers leaving him depressed....
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