The Pros And Cons Of Education

The education a child receives at a young age can determine the person he or she becomes in the future. Since instruction is quite valuable, how does one determine which form is best? One on one learning and traditional class room learning has been around for quite some time. Parents are faced with three options when deciding how their child will be educated. The options are: public school, private school, and homeschooling. Public and private schooling systems can provide a more diverse social education and extra-curricular activities. Homeschooling on the other hand, gives parents the ability to choose the curriculum and schedule and gives the student more one on one time (Public School vs Home School). Is it possible that homeschooling

The parent’s morals and beliefs can also be easily passed down. Instead of the child taking a health class at school, the parents would instead have the opportunity to educate the child and teach him or her their own views on the subject. The parents can then teach the child the difference between right-and-wrong rather than the child developing a world view at a secular school. Parents that homeschool get the privilege of hand picking which curriculum they want their child to learn from. The curriculum of their choosing can reflect their religion and what they believe. A public or private school’s curriculum may not line up with what parents believe. For example creation in many cases is argued upon. Many people have different theories and feel strongly about what is

Studies have shown that homeschools on average “achieve similar, if not better success academically.”(Wichers). “The Ohio Department of Education(1995) reported that students were given a normed, standardized achievement test” the scores came back revealing that “homeschooled students averaged between the 65th and 80th percentile on normed standardized achievement tests, where the national average was the 50th percentile”(Wichers). Aside from tests acceptance into college is not as hard as some are lead to believe. Kate McReynolds found that in Golden’s research “In 2001 Stanford University admitted 27% of its homeschooled applicants, nearly twice the acceptance rate of traditionally schooled applicants” (Golden, qtd. in McReynolds 37). This goes to show that a nontraditional approach to teaching is effective and in many cases more effective then other methods of