Each year more than a million children are homeschooled in the United States, and that number is steadily growing. While some parents believe homeschooling is an ideal situation, others fear that a student's education can be severely hindered in such an environment. When making a decision about your child's education, which is the more reasonable school of thought?
Every parent wants the best education for his or her child. All parents have the right to be involved in the education of their own children, and are entitled to seek the type of education that they believe best addresses their child's needs.
At the same time, all students deserve to have a quality education. These two goals-parents' rights, and quality education--might, under the best of conditions, come together in excellent education delivered at home. But home schooling also has the potential of creating an inadequate overall education. While public education is certainly not perfect, it does provide for common standards, transparent evaluation processes for teaching and learning, administrative oversight and accountability, and the opportunity to learn within a diverse community. Home schooling often fails to meet at least some and sometimes all of these criteria.
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