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?
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The Public School Model Isn't Necessarily the Best
- From HomeSchool Association of California
By HomeSchool Association of California - A Non-Profit Organization
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Quality?
The notion that the public schools are providing students with a quality education is so laughable, I have a hard time believing that the author intended us to take her objection seriously. To say that public schools are failing students on a massive scale is hardly controversial. It is a national crisis.
I understand that many families simply cannot afford for one parent to stay home. The question "Should you homeschool?" is poorly worded to make a positive response sound like everyone ought to be homeschooling their kids. That is not the case. There are other options besides homeschooling for ensuring that your child gets a good education. No parent, though, should be blaisé about sending his child aboard the sinking ship of public school education, where accountability is measured by nothing more than the grades on a standardized test, and yet is still out of the reach of a large percentage of the public schools. Parents who do not have the good fortune to be able to educate their children must be vigilant about making sure that they are doing well in the public schools. In the final analysis, the responsibility is the parents'.
- Ardsgaine
September 17, 2008 7:12PM
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Very well stated. The responsibility should and is the parents whether they choose public, private, tutor or homeschool. Or a combination of these or some other path.
As for the 'one parent stays home' well, even that is not correct anymore. Both my spouse and I work full-time and we know many other homeschoolers in this same situation. It can be done. Not ALL jobs require a standard 9-5 schedule.
- Laughing at you September 18, 2008 7:41AM
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Well done!
That's excellent that you guys have worked out a way to homeschool while both working.
Incidentally, there is a problem with the poll. I did not answer 'no' to the question "Should you homeschool;" I answered 'no' to the question "Are homeschooled students at a disadvantage." Opposing Views needs to straighten out their poll results.
- Ardsgaine
September 27, 2008 1:28PM
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