The Reasons For Homeschooling

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. (check order of thesis/add to thesis) One of the biggest benefits that comes with homeschooling is that children learn more about what they are specifically interested in, whereas public

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.

Home schoolers tend to have an exaggerated sense of the problems in contemporary education. Home Schooling Home schooling is a form of education in which children learn at home rather than in a conventional classroom, with their parents as their primary teachers. By exercising the choice to home school, home schooling parents are selecting the type of education their children receive. This choice, they believe, is protecting their children from becoming one of the statistics of academic or moral failure sometimes portrayed in the popular media. “Home schooling families want the right to choose to teach their children themselves, as it is the home schooling family’s belief that they can provide a better academic and moral foundation for their children than other school settings” (Mason, 2009).

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.

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.

Parents can advance their children at their own pace rather than being rushed to meet deadlines, and parents can set expectations as high as they need to for each individual child. Because homeschooled students are, the majority of the time, taught by their own parents, homeschooling is, in effect, one-to-one ratio of teaching. Studies done by The Center for Public Education show that the smaller class size, or smaller student to teacher ratio have a positive impact on the student 's education. People tend to be concerned about the social development of homeschooled children since they do not has the daily interactions with classmates and teachers, but many homeschooled children actually have large social networks and

Theses are qualities, which most parents want to instill in their students. Being in a smaller environment allows for better education. The good thing about a smaller environment is it gives students time to understand what they are doing. Having time to ask their questions to make sure they understand. Many know that private schools are a year ahead of public school, “Many parents who return their children to public school soon miss the private school advantages.

they would need a lot of time and patience. Are they ready for that? To conclude, Homeschooling has some advantages and disadvantages. However, Public or private schools offer a better future for kids. Also they get them ready for any obstacle that crosses their path, into getting their career goal.

Throughout her article we see multiple stories of those who have had success with home schooling and first-hand accounts of how it has worked for them. She believes that home schooling is a better option because the government has now become more involved than it used to be. She also mentions that home schooled children are often involved in clubs and sports at public or private schools which allows the child to have social interactions with other students, she says that this can really help students not feel secluded. Something that Cox really emphasizes in this article is how much safer home schooling can be than public schools when it comes to not only violence, but things like drugs and peer pressure as well. In a home schooled environment, the parents can teach the child how they would like, and they get to decide what to expose their child to, Cox explains.

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.