Effects Of Homeschooling On Children

How does Homeschooling Affects Children? Is homeschooling going to hurt your child or benefit your child? Homeschooling is debated by many parents throughout the United States. Many parents believe that they can do a better job than public schools in their area. Homeschooling is a better option than public schooling because children can learn more about what they are actually interested in, families have more free time, parents are the primary influence to their children, are more independent, learn more affectively, and children get to wear their pajamas.

The reasons that parents choose to homeschool their children vary. The most common are social, academic and family. Homeschooling parents believe that they can provide a better education for their child from the home. This eliminates many of the disadvantages that come with public schooling such as negative peer pressure, wasted time, and less individual attention. By homeschooling, parents are able to teach their children the academic and life skills that they wish to develop in their child.

This will give the child a feeling of reward, and everyone wants to work hard and receive a reward. I would like to know if all children benefit when their parents get involved with their education. Are there some parents that are too involved? Where is the line drawn between not involved and being involved too much? Are parents supposed to still be involved in high school to help with their children’s success?

Furthermore, it has been proven in regular schools that students gain information easier the smaller the student-teacher ratio is. If this is the case for school, the results are even better for homeschooling. Homeschooling is one-to-one teaching, and that means parents get to help their kids individually. Some parents are stricter than others, and that strictness can be placed upon kids to reach for the highest grades possible. Homeschooling offers a solution for these high-achieving parents that allows them to further interact with their kids and monitor their success (“Benefits of Homeschooling”).

For instance; this form of education encourages independent thinking since the homeschoolers are more likely to think independently and make their own decisions away from the majority decisions, like what happening in the public schools. Also, it eradicates boredom because of the students don’t have to wait for others student to chat up what they already mastered. And parents are more likely to save money to their children for college, Lips&Feinberg(2008)"The growing number of students being educated at home is also influencing the American Education system and saving taxpayers between $4.4 billion and $9.9 billion in instructional costs each year"(para.4). One more benefit which I think it’s the most important one that homeschoolers are working for the knowledge instead of grades, because homeschooling is about encouraging children to maximize their personal abilities and enhance knowledge, this way the students will realize their potential

Homeschooling is becoming more popular in today’s society then before. Homeschooling is teaching school subjects to one’s children at home (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). But is homeschooling the best way to educate children? Homeschooling can bring more positive outcomes versus public or private schooling. This is because homeschooling can bring many benefits such as family orientation, no worries about bullies, less exposure to bad influences like drugs.

But homeschooling is often superior because it offers additional time for students to participate in various extracurricular activities and community service, allows for more individual attention, personal character development, and it offers less exposure to discrimination that is received in the public school environment. One might ask why some parents decide to home school their children rather than send them to public school to receive a traditional public education. In his article, “What Have We Learned About Homeschooling,” Eric Isenberg offers data which says, “Families choose to homeschool their children for both academic and religious reasons” (407). Even so, most people claim that public school offers the perfect environment for learning and developing. They argue Goss 2 that students who attend public school will be better prepared for a pu... ... middle of paper ... ...urnal of College Admission 208.8 (2010): 18-25.

Promoting the sense of school connectedness can be done in many different ways and the ideas are endless because each school is different. Some strategies that could increase school connectedness are to provide more education opportunities to families. This will allow families to be more involved with their child’s education and be more willing to understand the material they are learning. Having a family involved in the education process will help the child be ore willing to learn and want their family to be involved. Sometimes parents have a hard time helping their children with school or be involved with school because they do not understand how to help.

Reasons Why People Homeschool In order to determine whether Homeschooling is indeed promising, one must first understand the reasons why people choose to Homeschool. According to Reich, Homeschooling is appealing to many families because of the capability to almost entirely customize education for their children. Many families want to homeschool because they do not feel that their children’s spiritual and moral needs are met in public schools. Moreover, some families choose to Homeschool in order to screen their child’s curriculum to remove secularist views found in modern day public school curriculum (2002). Others have children with special needs or learning disabilities, so they choose to homeschool (Maaja, 1997).

Some parents think that once their children are in school, they can relax and let the education system take charge. But this is not the case at all. Based on my own experience, my husband and I have had an even greater influence on our children’s academic results than the school system. Most of a child’s capacity to communicate, to describe to teachers and peers and their feelings towards learning, is formed at home. Parents can help give their children an advantage and begin their education at home, even before they start school.