Home Schooling: The Search for Quality and Values

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In the search for quality and values there’s a fundamental increase in parents rejecting the Institutional Educational Systems in the twenty 21th Century, “Parents preferring Home Schooling”.

The industrialization of Education during the 1800s, and the need for free education was necessary because the average family in America could not afford grade school for their children. There were two common fears; influx of ‘foreign values and the need for education in the work force and Americanizing those from foreign nations, (Hellinger and Judd 1991) p.36.

This popular symbolic social interaction has become a permanent trend in many households in America. “Home Schooling is a substitution for conventional education in the public schools which focuses on the individual Childs or Children’s needs and capabilities for learning at their own pace at home.

This movement is explanting rapidly over one “million” children are home schooled (Princiotta al.2004). This movement has becoming a home- based progressive institution.

With the increasing problems with violence in public schools and parents fear of behavioral issues with other students and incompetent teaches their curriculum and the lack of quality or values in many current public and private schools. The treat of physical harm to a child in this hostile environment most parents are not willing to risk their children’s safety in public schools. Sometimes the damage done to their Childs social skills and perception of other cultures and the fundamental norms taught at home are in question! Another reason could be parents having to dealing with the stratified examples of bias and the tampering with historical data being ...

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...al fundamental seating, parents prefer the convenience of home schooling. The theoretic studies clearly state that 90% of parent educators are proven to be females and 10% are males, (Lines 2000)...

Having a nanny is a great idea but parents apparently want affordable quality care and core-values for their children taught in the home environment. It is also apparent that more men are increasingly taking and active role as well in the formal education of their own children than ever before in our history.

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Works Cited

Essentials of Sociology” Eight Editions: (Hellinger and Judd, 1991) P.360.

Benefits of Homeschooling’ (Pamela Connolly); (December 2005) www.ezinearticles.com/? Benefits -of-Homeschooling, (Retrieved June 18, 2010).

http://www.EHarvey.org/. (Retrieved June 18, 2010)

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