Argumentative Essay On School Shootings

This world seems to be falling apart, going crazy, or even taking people away out of the blew. One of the main reasons behind that is school shootings. It tends to happen when people think they are taking their kids into a safe environment. School is supposed to be safe, full of kids talking to their friends, teachers, and maybe petting the psychologist’s dog just saying “hi” to the dog. For the longest time school shootings have been climbing, occuring more and more. Everyday, bad things happen which show how humanity is cruel. (table1, Mass Shootings Per Year) this graph is showing how the numbers every year change. Since the year 1982 and 2016, the numbers really do change drastically.

There has been an average of one school shooting every week in America since the Sandy Hook shooting. On the fourteenth of December, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, 20-year-old Adam Lanza not only killed his mother in her home, but also twenty children and six members of staff at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. This was to be the third deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. The Huffington Post reports that as of 2014, there have been over 200 school shootings. These have resulted in at least 94 deaths and over 156 serious and minor injuries. And, with an issue as emotive and contentious as the murder of school children, the question has been frequently asked: why do school shootings happen?

Before presenting both the positive and the negative aspects of homeschooling it is worth mentioning that the deciding factor for parents choosing to homeschool as opposed to public schooling generally falls into a biased opinion of public schooling. As mentioned in an NPR radio interview, “the number one reason parents give is the desire to provide religious or moral instruction and that the second most popular reason, closely followed behind, was a concern about the school environment” Martin, M. (2013). These type of reasoning for home schooling presents some valid question, such as, who determines what the best approach or the best form of education? Is the quality of education

Education has always been a crucial part of society. We desire the best for students everywhere; it’s necessary for success and improvement. Two controversial forms of education are public schooling and homeschooling. Though public schooling is beneficial, homeschooling has proven itself to be better in almost every area, including productivity, socialization, testing, cost, and flexibility.

When parents are choosing to homeschool, or put their children in public schools they look at the different socioeconomic factors in their lives. These socio-economic problems help in the decision to homeschool their children. Depending on how many kids are living in the home, it may be easier to homeschool their kids instead of on sending them to public school. “ homeschooled students were more likely than public or private schooled students who are living in families with three or more children” (Princiotta and Bielick, Web). Parents that are living with three or more children, it is easier for the parents to school from the home instead of sending them all to public school. If the guardians were tight with money and couldn't afford to buy uniforms or buy them all the clothes they all need, it would be a lot cheaper to have them hand me downs for the children. Another thing is if the children are

HOOK :Hey do you know that kid who everyone considers “uncool” or peculiar that sits in the back of your class who is always biting their nails, wears old clothes and shoes, smells kinda funny. You probably always walk past them like nothing and make as if they don’t exist and if they are irrelevant.You probably even have nicknames for them, that probably aren’t nice .You also might wonder why they always isolate themselves. Or in another scenario that kid who is always on the honor roll, star athlete the one who is a ladies man. Have you ever asked yourself what goes through their heads or if they have feelings or even if they are even if they are doing fine? Or what does it take for someone to reach their breaking point and commit such heinous acts? Have you ever asked yourself what is the the likelihood of them shooting up their school? Lethal violence is a problem in schools and nobody's doing anything to prevent it.

Many parents prefer homeschooling to the traditional public or private system of education due to a variety of reasons. First of all, many parents are dissatisfied with the educational options available in schools. Many families have different religious beliefs or educational philosophies and wanted an education that cater to their needs. They have lost faith in the inferior education provided by the traditional school system and are worried about their children’s progress. Some parents even sought after-school private tutoring to further support their children’s learning. The National Household Education

Pictures can be powerful tools. With being universal, it allows many to interpret and be able to understand what is going on. Many pictures can speak so loudly without any words. Each and every one will interpret pictures different, but will be able to find the same underline cause. Some of the stronger images come from ones that are taken during or after a horrific event. Unfortunately, on June 12, 2016 there was a shooting in a nightclub that took a number of lives and change many more. The photos taken from that night spoke of horror and heartbreak.

2.2% of all American students are homeschooled. That’s according to a survey by the National Center for Education Statistics in 2003. 62% of families with three or more children home school their children (Homeschool). 49% of the children of two-parent families attend public school and 25% are home schooled (Homeschool). Here in America, parents have the privilege to choose how they would like to educate their children: whether to send them to a public or private school, or whether to home school them. Home schools offer many academic benefits including, but not limited to, allowing children to learn at their own pace, its low curriculum cost, the ability to teach students certain morals and values, and the ability to control how and when students learn. Public schools offer many social benefits such as students receiving the opportunity to learn another student’s perspective, and additional forms of social interaction like sports teams and other extracurricular activities.

Homeschooling is becoming much more common now than it was years ago. Parents are now preferring to homeschool their children over public school due to many reasons such as religion, safety, academic quality travel, family togetherness, separation of government and school, mastery over grades, expenses, and focusing on learning plans made for the student.

Home Schooling in the United States is on the rise. In the 1980's home schooling was a choice that parents could make with their children if they so desired. By the early 1990's about three hundred thousand children were in a home school environment. Today there are about two million students being taught at home. Children being taught at home are increasing by a rate of seven to fifteen percent every year. Home schooling is a choice every parent has to make; these days more and more parents are choosing to educate at home. When choosing to educate at home it is important to think about the positive and negative aspects, the technological advancements that have been made, and what laws and regulations you must follow.

For example, the book for Joseph Murphy (2012) reported his study in 2010 that “homeschool achievement reported in national percentiles as follows: total reading,89th; total language, 84th; total mathematics, 84th; science, 86th; social studies,84th; and composite, 86th” (Joseph Murphy, 2012, p. 136). Also, the book provided more evidence of how those homeschooled students perform in ACT exam. Scholars have compared college entrance examination scores of homeschoolers national for those tests. Rudner (1999) reported that homeschoolers had a composite ACT score of 22.8, while the national average score was 21.0. This score placed homeschooled children in the 65th percentile of all ACT test takers (Joseph Murphy, 2012, p. 137). We see Student success is a difficult subject to understand. Despite of the high scores for homeschooled students in standardized exams, the stories of homeschooling families show some failure. So, DuBose had some problem with homeschooling failure. A story of “family A who chose homeschooling because their children were lagging in public school, and their homeschooled cousins were excelling. After only one year at home, the A. Children were returned to public school and Mrs. A. vowed she would never homeschool again” (Guilt -free Homeschooling). This family when they failed to survive homeschooling, they returned to the public school. This is actually one advantage that families have the choice of going back to public school instead of leaving

“Homeschooling is an approach to the education of children and youth in which parents commit to personally taking decisive and significant role in raising , educating , socializing and training their children”( “THE MODERN” 405 ). Parent who choose to home educated their children have always been confronted with controversy. However, historically homeschooling was common placed in colonial time until 1918 when compulsory school law was enacted in all states (Cohen and Drenovsky 19). As a result, home based education almost became extinct by 1975 in the United States. However, the practice of homeschooling made a comeback in America and other countries during the 1980s. For instance, in 1978 there was an estimated 12,500 children that were schooled at home in the United States, subsequently by 1983 there an estimated 93, 00; in 1995 1.1million and by 2000 1.5 to 1.9 million ( “THE MODERN” 406).

Historically homeschool as been around for a while but, “Since the 1980s, the US has experienced an increase in the number of homeschooling families. It is estimated that the number of homeschooled children has grown 15–20% annually (Bauman, 2001) and now totals about two million students (Murphy, 2012)”

Many families are taking their children out of public and private school’s classroom to move the classroom to their homes. In both articles, the parents have different reasons for why they are choosing to homeschool instead of keeping their children in public or private schools. Homeschooling is not for everyone and cannot be taken lightly. There are many different reasons why families would rather homeschool instead of sending their children to public schools. According to parents.com, Jamie Martin wrote an article on What Is Homeschooling? Martin goes on to state that, “homeschooling is a progressive movement around the country and the world, in which parents choose to educate their children at home instead of sending