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    students to go to school. There is public school, private school, charter school, contract school, and home schools. The question on many people’s minds is “Why home schooling over any other schooling?” Since 1970s there has been a dramatic growth in homeschooling for student’s kindergarten to twelfth grade students. Although White gives effective arguments, and includes no obvious recall of evidence, she builds her credentials from subjects who have personally experiences, controversial evidence, and then

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    Recent statistics indicate that homeschooling is increasingly becoming a method of education that is accepted and trendy. Homeschooling is now a fashionable choice for many of the young professional looking for the best education for their children. However, the question that arises is whether this form of education is right for our children. For parents, making the decision of instructing their children from home is not easy. The topic of homeschooling is controversial and involves issues

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    Homeschooling causes students to miss out on social events that typical students experience and creates issues for their families and future education. Homeschooled students do not get a conventional high school experience, and they miss out having a sense of school pride and social events such as football games and pep rallies. The lack of connection with peers can cause loneliness as well. Homeschooling may cause strain on family relationships and financial problems if the family does not monitor

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    and social life may all be factors in the final decision. Over the past ten years, homeschooling has become increasingly popular among Americans. According to Brian D. Ray from National Home Education Research Institute, there are over 2.2 million homeschooled students in the United States. Although public schooling can have its benefits, homeschooling is more beneficial for a student in today’s society. Homeschooling, also known as home education, is self-explanatory. Home education is the educating

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    Resolve that homeschooling should be banned. Imagine, you are a parent and you want the best education for your child. Which do you choose, a public school, or homeschooling? The answer is blatantly obvious, and I’m here to tell you why. Firstly, you have to work to provide for YOURSELF, let alone a FAMILY. It takes $10.20 per hour to provide for yourself, now let 's take that times the average family size. On average, a family has 2 parents and 2.5 children, so 4.5 people. So let 's multiply that

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    According to (Lyman) Families are turning to home education as an alternate to learning in public or private schools. Several families have completely different reasons for selecting to pull their kids out of school and homeschool them. Reasons for homeschooling will vary from spiritual reasons to discontent with the government’s management over the curriculum and also the teaching methodology. Several parents who opt to homeschool all have a similar belief that the education of children, ought to be the

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    Contrast Homeschooling and Traditional Classroom Education People can choose to get homeschooling or not in the 1970s, some famous writer started write relative innovation at the same time (“Homeschooling 101”, 2012). There are now more than two million children being homeschooled in the U.S., with the percentage rapidly increasing by 7 percent to 15 percent each year, according to the National Home Education Research Institute (“Homeschooling 101,” 2012). Maybe we can find that homeschooling is becoming

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    a system of state-run education, with compulsory attendance and standardized curriculum. (Forstmann, 2001) Homeschooling has been around for a long time and is not going anywhere. It continues to increase as the year's pass, and it’s not slowing down. Many pioneers have fought for homeschooling, and new ones continue to surface. While the public education continues to downplay homeschooling, home educators continue to flourish in many ways by performing academically and becoming professionals in

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    Many influential individuals in the United States history have experienced the practice of homeschooling. President Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Franklin, for example, were able to become successful people without the aid of school. This was due to the inexistent law of mandatory attendance to school. Children and teenagers did not need to attend school outside of their home until the start of the twentieth century. After this switch, it was the schools responsibility to educate. Although, in 1960

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    Center for Education Statistics, 91 percent of parents who homeschool their children are concerned about the public school environment (Homeschooling, 2017, para 9). Although there is no doubt that there are problems found in public schools, issues arise with alternative forms of education as well. Critics of homeschooling often reason that

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