Argumentative Essay On Homeschooling

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Home Schooling
Homeschooling still has lots of unknowns for Socialists. There is some research Sociologist use that can gage if homeschooling is better for a child or worse. Homeschooling had a rough start. Was peoples lack of trust in public schooling that started homeschooling movement. Parents do not want to share information for research due to the lack of trust between them and the government. The number of children homeschooled children that enter into college and excel with their grade point averages is amazing. Homeschooling gives the child the freedom to move through school at their own pace. The childes ability to self-teach themselves at their own pace while exceling over the public-school counterpart is amazing.
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Larabell (2015) points out there is groups that are skeptical of the results of the standardized test because they are administered by the parents of the children being homeschooled (p. 12). For me you can argue any test result statistic except how many children move onto college and what kind of grade point average they have. “Study from the University of St. Thomas noted that students who had been homeschooled had higher first-year GPAs, higher cumulative GPAs, and higher graduation rates than students who had attended public schools” (Larabell, 2015 P. 13). To ague the with end result of college grades for homeschoolers is pretty hard to do. I was surprised that some parents use an unstructured method to achieve such a positive result. As Steimle (2014) points out on his TEDx YouTube video “Oxford University welcomes applicants from those who have been or welcomes applications from those who have been homeschooled”. How children perform at college cannot be argued. Steimle (2014) points out a homeschooling is an educational asset that Harvard considers favorably when making its admissions decisions. A college like Harvard believes in the ability of a homeschooled student excel in college is very powerful

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