The Effects Of Homeschooling On Children And Public Schools

In the article “Why I Homeschool: The Answers Change Almost as Fast as My Kids Do. But My Commitment to At-Home Learning Remains Strong.” Amy Thornton-Kelly initially home schooled her three children in order to spend more time with them. This was her only reason, or so she thought. Amy Thornton–Kelly explains the many reasons why homeschooling is the best decision she has made. First, she explains that once her husband and her considered homeschooling “the floodgates opened” to the many benefits of homeschooling. It alleviates stress, allows her kids to learn in a healthier environment and allows her to teach her kids in a more profound way. Second, Thornton-Kelly states that homeschooling allows her kids to better master subjects,

In the other hand parents who choose to home school their kids are faced with a great deal of advantages. Home schooling a child means that a parent has to give 100 percent dedication into teaching there child. One great asset to home schooling is that children are often way ahead in their grade work as compared with their peers in public school. They learn to read much earlier and advance through their subjects much faster and in a more thorough manner, due to more individualized attention and subject-specific attention. By being taught at home, the student has immediate access to the "teacher", and can ask questions at just about any time without having to worry about other students and their learning habits. Parents don’t have to worry about the safety of their child when it comes to home schooling. The child is in the home and always being watched if something where to happen it would be the parents’ responsibility and the parent would know what to do

Though there are a lot of benefits and advantages to being home schooled, there are also many disadvantages. Home schooling takes a lot of time to plan, and it can be hard on the parents to balance schooling with other home duties. Though home schooling allows parents to pick the time that the schooling will take place, it is a full-time job for one parent. One major disadvantage of home schooling is that it requires the parents to pay for everything with their own finances, this can cause financial pressure on the family. Only one parent would be able to have a full time job and they will have to pay for books and other reading material with their own money. Even if they choose to have a teacher come into their home to do the schooling, it would still require them to pay him/her for their services.

Being homeschooled gives you options for yourself and your surroundings. “They’ve had complete control over their bodies, minds and spirits almost all their lives. As a result, they know exactly who they are and what they’re passionate about” (Source B). Homeschooling makes you think outside of the box. Think learning on a new level, you can still

I have read books featuring homeschooled kids, such as children featured in The Magic Treehouse book series, and I have heard of people who were homeschooled, or even still is, such as Victoria Henley from the nineteenth cycle of America’s Next Top Model. However, is it worth it? What are the benefits and the drawbacks that comes with being homeschooled?

Acording to the reading the main disadvantages are the lacks of: knowledge, social interaction and curriculum. Children learn less in homeschool because there is less requierements to procede to a further level. Also they have a more limited group of people to interact with. And the curriculum that parents can offer is too narrow.

According to http://a2zhomeschooling.com/ thirty four percent of teenagers in the United States are home schooled. Some people believe that homeschooling is better for their children, in that they have more family time, better protected from bad examples, etc. As a retort parents have the ability to argue that being homeschooled is unfair to the children. Seeing that they are not exposed to real life situations that they could experience in public school, they will not be able to deal with difficult situations. Homeschooling is not the route to take if a child is expected to perform in real life situations.

Nowadays homeschooling is an activity that have become more popular in United States. In homeschooling parents teach many subjects at home, instead of taking their children to the traditional classrooms with more children. In my point of view I have two reasons to be against homeschool children; these two reasons are the next:

Some people say that being home schooled is not as beneficial as public school. However, I feel that being home schooled is more beneficial. Even though some may argue that the child loses social contact and socialization skills not everyone can learn in a large social setting. I think learning in a setting where you get more one on one contact is more beneficial. Second, there are less distractions when your learning at home. Also, everyone learns differently and your learning coach can teach you in a way you can understand. Lastly, some people have learning disabilities and some have disabilities that don't only affect their learning but their concentration as well, so eliminating the distractions and putting you in a setting where your

"Parents of 136 homeschooled elementary children completed questionnaires assessing constructs derived from the parental involvement literature and personal beliefs identified in the homeschooling literature as important to parents’ decisions to home school. Results suggest that home-schooling parents appear to be motivated by an active role construction, strong sense of efficacy for helping the child learn, and positive perceptions of life context"(1). This shows that parents who choose to home school are very motivated to allow their children to succeed as best they can, also that they would want their children to learn every

Other than the negative moral and social impacts on the children due to homeschooling, there are also some problems about homeschooling that the parents must face. Parents who homeschool seem to have no time for anything. They are constantly working and homeschooling. This leaves them little free time to do what they wish. They have little time to spend with their friends, spend leisure time by themselves, or doing the things they love. Of course, they have plenty of time to spend with their children, but most of that is spent teaching and not parenting them (Roberts).

Over the years people have debated which one is a better education system for children, whether it is public school, or home school. There are many arguments for which one benefits the student more, such as social development in children, the education level to which he receives and also the maturity level upon completion. With the number of homeschoolers growing at about 11% a year so you can see that the public opinion of homeschooling is slowly changing.

There is a persistent myth about children that are being homeschooled that many parents tend to agree with. They believe that teaching a child a home will cause them to become anti-social and suffer with future relationships. It is the main stream perception that causes most parents to send their children to public schools. They fail to realize that home-schooled students have many opportunities to be social and usually end up having less behavioral problems and more friendships. Parent decide to home-school children for many reasons such as they believe it will make their children much more mature, It will help them develop socially and respect for elders, and allows children more time for other activities. Most parents have agreed that socialization is not a problem for homeschooled children and have been quite pleased with the results. Homeschooled children are often more a lot safer than children in public schools. Many homeschooled children have grown up to be great leaders and very successful individuals which usually sparks the debate that homeschooling is more beneficial than public schooling.

Although there are various reasons why families may decide to homeschool their children, most decisions are based on one or both of these issues: personal beliefs and problems with the public school.

Homeschooling has long been an alternate method for parents to educate their children. Homeschooling is a method where a child is being schooled at home by their parents, relatives or private tutors to educate their children from pre-k to 12th grade. Basically their whole childhood to their early adulthood. Homeschooling should be avoided by parents because it can cause their children to have a difficult time integrating into society because they have extremely limited interaction with their own peers when they are homeschooled. If a child does not have enough experience of interacting with other children they would not know how to act in a more crowded environment. Also if the child is homeschooled, they would not be able to deal with difficult challenges because they would not have been exposed to any by staying in the safety of their parents and their home.