Homeschooling

DRAFT! Jaqualin S Wattimena/2013-36-044 Do Homeschool Provide Students With Enough Opportunities To Be More Socializing? Homeschooling is a one of a system of education or learning which is conducted at students’s home that becomes an interesting topic in the society. Parents have options when making decisions regarding their children’s education. Nowadays, manny parents choose homeschooling for their children beside public school, because they feel that most of learning atmosphere at public school does not prioritize the student need.

Moore believed that children were being pushed in school to learn things they were not ready to learn. After evtensive research, he concluded that children in schools become extremely dependent on their peers. (Lyman, 1998). John Holt believed that it was beneficial to homeschool children because children were not being encouraged to use their natural curiosity. His negative attitude towards schools is shown when he wrote, "To return once more to compulsory school in its barest form, you will surely agree that the government told you that on one hundred and eighty days of the year, for six or more hours a day, you had to be at a particular place, and there do whatever people told you to do, you would feel that this was a gross violation of your civil liberties."

One of the toughest decisions that any parent will ever face is to decide where to send their children to get an education. When most people think of education, they generally think of public schools… when governments require children to attend schools in which trained teachers are responsible for educating the children using an approved curriculum. Through the years that idea has slowly been changing and a significant number of parents have come to believe that it is much better for their children to be educated at home by the people who know them and their needs best. Although, most people think that a public education is better, many statistics and facts show that home schooling is beneficial in other ways. It is estimated that parents are now taking control of their children’s lives and education by teaching over two million children at home, rather than in public or even private schools!

Parents determine the academic success of their children, more than anyone else. Children learn a great deal from their parents in general, so why should they not be closely involved in the formal education of their own children? In the very beneficial the book Home-life Cheri Fuller observes that, “new studies show that throughout school years, more than any other factor, it is what parents do at home that makes the difference between success or failure for children.” (Fuller 15). An understanding of this truthful concept is at least one reason why more and more parents are turning to homeschooling their children, choosing to not send them off for hours a day at a public school. George Will’s articl... ... middle of paper ... ...dren because so many children struggle with school due to an absence of parental involvement, because this will help the children throughout life, and due to the fact of the great relationship this will produce between parents and their children.

“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.

In addition to the ones listed above, some people believe they would provide a better education for their children than a conventional school would, they want to build strong family bonds, or they are afraid of sending their child to school. I believe these are exact reasons that children do need to be sent to conventional schools instead of remaining at home. A dear friend of mine was homeschooled. Her parents, however realized that it was inhibiting her social skills and her growth as a person. I fear that other parents won’t see this.

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).

When it comes to education, some parents are not always qualified to properly teach students. There are many issues when it comes to the choice of homeschooling, parents see issues within the current education system, but are parents educated properly to teach their children, there is also an issue with vaccinations and the socialization of the students. Parent have right to make choices that they would find beneficial for their children, but when these choices begin to principally affect a majority of students. In past years, the common reason behind parents enrolling their children in homeschooling was based on religious practices, but recently more parents are choosing homeschooling based on the concerns they have within the school system. In Isabel Lyman’s essay “Homeschooling”, Lyman breaks down the statistics of the changes in reasons behind parents choice to homeschool their children, “By the early twenty-first century, religion was no longer the main reason that parents chose to home-school; a 2004 report from the National Institute for Educational Statistics showed that thirty-one percent of families homeschool out of "concern about environment of other schools" while... ... middle of paper ... ...ast relationships throughout life.

There are many people in the world today that have arguments against educational vouchers. The United States simply can't afford to sacrifice another generation of children who don't have a good education. Our nation's children desperately need the best education possible, and it's the parent's and the school's job to make sure that this happens. All parents should want their children to feel comfortable with the surroundings and be happy with the school that they attend. For example, if children were autistic and needed more of a challenge in education, then the children probably will not like the school that they attend.

By exercising the choice to home school, home schooling parents are selecting the type of education their children receive. The choice to home school is both a developmental philosophy and a political response to existing educational institutions and contemporary social order. Yet dissatisfaction with public schools has made many parents more receptive in recent years to different education reforms, including home schooling. Some parents also tout home schooling as a way to teach their children religious values, which they say are absent from the secular public school system. Home schoolers tend to have an exaggerated sense of the problems in contemporary education.