Parents today want their child to have the best education possible and that begins to get them thinking about how they want their child educated. Most parents would just enroll their children at the nearest public school and think nothing of it, but a few parents now have chosen to homeschool their children. This leads to disagreements with many parents; who is getting the better education? After reading "Public Education Is Preferable to Home Schooling," by Evie Hudak 's and "Home Schooling Is a Viable Alternative to Public Education," by Isabel Lyman. These two articles both argue that their viewpoint is right and that their method of education is what is best for children. Hudak 's "Public Education Is Preferable to Home Schooling" argues …show more content…
While homeschooling does not require the parent to have any certification or experience. Another point Hudak brings up to argue is socialization. Because the classes in public schools are large, students are not "spoon-fed." ( Hudak) They are forced to take more responsibility for their learning; this helps them gain more independence and initiative, which makes them better employees (Hudak). Children that are in the public atmosphere have to deal with different personalities (Hudak). They are able to adapt to different styles of teachers, based on them getting older and moving up to the next grade. Students are able to join clubs and sports teams to engage with other children their age. Homeschool children might have siblings to play with and possibly a small group of friends, but they see more of their parents than anybody else. Despite recent incidents that have included violence, public school is overall a safe environment, even possibly safer than learning at home. Gully Stanford, a member of the Colorado Board of Education states, "In an increasingly diverse and technological society, the paramount need is to prepare our youth for productive citizenship: No home, no matter how well equipped, can duplicate the nurturing and coping experience of a public school education"
According to Gretchen M. Wilhelm and Michael W. Firmin, in their article Historical and Contemporary Developments, the Department of Education found that over 1,700,000 students are homeschooled. That’s 3.4 percent of all school age children (304). Homeschooling is defined as an education that contains less than twenty five hours of public school teaching each week and is based out of a household. The earliest forms of education were originally taught from home, then later developed into public schools (Wilhelm and Firmin). Homeschooling not only affects the students taught, but also fellow Americans in the race to advance a nation. Homeschooling needs to be understood in order to revise education into a better and
Homeschooling, could this be the future of the America? What are some benefits of homeschooling verses traditional schooling? Homeschooling has been around for quite some time now. Most families choose to home school their children for a number of reasons, the main reason from my understanding of the readings is Religion. Other reasons very from the type of environments public schools provide to their child not getting enough attention. We could go on and on about the different reason parents choose to homeschool their kids. Homeschooling your kids the right way takes a lot of time, money, and resources for it to be done right and for the kids to benefit from it. Public school teachers specialize in their specific areas weather its Math,
An estimated 4 million children are currently home schooled with a 15-20% yearly growth rate. According to a California study by researcher Dr. Brian [D.] Ray, 92 percent of school superintendents believe that home learners are emotionally unstable, deprived of proper social development and too judgmental of the world around them. The latest claim against home schooling suggests that home schoolers are potential child abusers. Mr. Ron Barnard, a Holly High School teacher says that he would prefer public schooling for his children because of the peer socialization, extra curricular, and mandated curriculum. Public schooling is more efficient in educating our youth than traditional home schooling.
Hudak, Evie. "Public Education Is Preferable to Home Schooling." Education, edited by Mary E. Williams, Greenhaven Press, 2005. Opposing Viewpoints. Opposing Viewpoints in Context, Accessed 31 Jan. 2018. Originally published as "Charting a Course for Home Schooling: Public Setting Still Best," Denver Post, 29 Aug. 1999.
In today’s society, the controversy over home schooling is a pertinent issue. Home schooling is known as the instruction of a pupil in an educational program outside of an established school, usually under the tutoring of the parent or guardian. Several debates exist over this current topic. Some have reasonable arguments in favor of home schooling, while many disagree with its process and the motives behind it. Both arguments have valid points that must be explored.
In “Home Schooling: A Personal Decision,” Karen White, journalist, presents an article in favor of home-schooling when students need time for extra-curricular activities. She also presents the idea that home-schooling provides a quality education. Home-schooling affords ballet dancers an avenue to spend more time on these activities, since ballet requires large amounts of practice time. While she persuasively argued that home-schooling allows ballet students to devote more time to dance, White’s claim was not effective in offering evidence that it offers a quality education. White’s article discusses the need for a home-based education in order to create more time for ballet practice or performances.
Education is an amazing opportunity, no matter how one receives it. Since the beginning of the public-school system, homeschooling had become a dwindling sight, until the last 20 years or so. The stigma surrounding homeschooling is one that paints parents as intolerant and children as awkward and anti-social. Many are skeptic about homeschooling and want their children to experience life outside of the home through public or private school. While this is completely understandable, could homeschooling offer a better education and more future success than public schooling? Homeschooling produces better test scores and is more academically effective than public schooling.
Growing up around kids who have only been home schooled and hasn’t ever been to a public school before, I have noticed glaring problems. When socializing with others, they struggle, and need their parents to ask questions for them. They don’t have a set of standards, and get taught what their parents want to teach. They don’t have extracurricular activities that mold them for the future. When it comes to structure there isn’t any, they do what they want when they want. Their parents aren’t teachers, and just teach them what they want to teach them. Finally they don’t get certain benefits offered by all public schools. All these reasons and many more, is why I think Public schooling can be a better educational system than homeschooling.
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
As the population in public schools increase, the problems in these schools are also on the rise. These changes are leasing to the way parents are schooling their children. Many parents are leaning towards homeschooling as a solution to this problem. This increase in homeschooling can be directly related to an increase in school violence, the offering of a lack luster curriculum, and lack of student teacher interaction.
All children in America have the right to a quality education. Most students receive that education through conventional means, going to a public or private school. There is another option for today's children, home schooling. Home schooling is a controversial issue. While it does have its benefits, some people believe it has too many downfalls to be an effective method of education. In this paper, topics such as academic impact, social impact, and parental opinions of home schooling will be discussed.
“Is getting a good education important to you?” Most people when asked this question would answer, “Yes.” This is because it teaches us valuable life skills and prepares us to communicate and engage with others in the world. Education has taken on many forms over the years, and one of the more successful components of education has been homeschooling. Once considered a criminal act of defiance, homeschooling is now legally an option in all fifty states for parents to consider, and it has a substantial
Today, many parents are homeschooling their children. A U.S. Department of Education’s report shows that approximately 1.5 million children were being homeschooled in 2007 (Lips & Feinberg, 2008). This is almost 3 percent of all school age children (Lips & Feinberg, 2008). A private researcher, the National Home Education Research Institute, estimates 2.5 million children were being homeschooled in the 2007 – 2008 academic years (Lips & Feinberg, 2008). By either count, homeschooling is growing exponentially.
In recent years, researchers have been trying to figure out why smaller class size works and who benefits most. " as it says in the article Everyone Learns More in Smaller Classes, or do they? Money is going to be a big problem for schools, but I believe we can overcome this problem. Once we do it would be very profitable for
In California, 5th graders have bigger classes than other elementary grades, peaking at 28.05, according to the California Department of Education. Students in large classes might be less engaged than the ones in small classes because a teacher “worries about the lack of one-on-one instruction in large classes” (http://neatoday.org/2011/04/20/does-class-size-really-matter-2/). Furthermore, this supports the fact that large classes affect teachers because they might worry about how they would teach their students. The second reason class reduction matters because high-performing students can do better in small classes. Students in smaller classes, according to National Council of Teachers of English, “Overall, research shows that students in smaller classes perform better in all subjects… compared to their peers in larger classes” (http://www.ncte.org/positions/statements/why-class-size-matters).