General Purpose: To present the positives and negatives of homeschooling.
Specific Purpose: That my audience come away with a better understanding of the unconventional teaching method.
Central Idea: There isn’t such thing as a perfect teaching system out there. However, having the freedom to choose which learning curriculum to use based off of what works best for your child’s learning needs is very important.
Attention getter: Ask how many of my classmates were homeschooled throughout their life and ask about their preconceived beliefs about the topic?
Credibility Statement: I grew up being homeschool, experiencing its culture first hand. However, I was not limited to taking classes just at home. I took a few classes here and there and played sports through a local high school. So I feel as though I am not completely biased in my beliefs. I have also done quite a bit of research on the topic due to having written papers about the subject in the past.
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Being able to cater to students with unique learning needs is one of the biggest benefits when it comes homeschooling.
Flexible schedules: When homeschooling you have the ability to easily get involved in extracurricular activities thanks to the flexible nature of this education.
Unrestricted teachings: Homeschooling is commonly chosen out of "concern about the environment of other schools, followed by a desire to provide religious or moral instruction” (Willingham, 2008). This unrestricted form of teaching gives parents the freedom to raise their children to have similar morals and beliefs.
Main point 3: Negatives
Lacking Social Skills: “Adults who were homeschooled often reference extreme social awkwardness as an obstacle they experienced upon entering college or the workforce” (Whelan,
Homeschooling is becoming a huge trend across America. It does have its downsides to it, just like any other education. Many parents have to worry about the right way of letting their child have socialization. Without proper socialization, a child can lack proper social skills. Many parents fear the temptations public school can provide, so they homeschool their children to bring them up with holy and moral attitudes. No parent wants their child to hang around other children who abuse drugs, alcohol, or can misguide their children down a wrong path. With homeschooling, parents can monitor whom their children socialize with and for how long. Fearing to not have any socialization at all is where parents can go wrong.
Myths regarding the improper socialization of homeschoolers are as ever-present in modern society as they are false. Studies show that home-educated students are not only equal to publicly educated students when it comes to social skills, but are actually superior to their public schooled peers. While this may seem counter-intuitive, as public schooled students spend most days surrounded by dozens, or even hundreds, of other students, some suggest this is the very reason home-educated students hold the advantage in social fields. While public school students are segregated entirely based on grade, home school students interact with individuals of all ages, through partaking in various athletic activities with teams in their area, taking classes at co-op home-school centers, auditing classes at local colleges, and interacting with other social groups in their area. A study by the Seattle-based Discovery Institute in July of 2000, in which counselors were shown videotapes of homeschooled and public schooled children playing, supports the theory that homeschoolers possess superior social skills to public schoolers. Without knowing which children were from each category, the counselors noted that the homeschool students
Moreover, some families choose to Homeschool in order to screen their child’s curriculum to remove secularist views found in modern day public school curriculum (2002). Others have children with special needs or learning disabilities, so they choose to homeschool (Maaja, 1997). Ultimately, families are looking for what they believe is best for their children. And these families want to be actively involved in the education of their children. Homeschooling parents do not want strangers raising their children. They want to raise their children with freedom from government systems and institutions (Ray, 2000a).
Parents decide to homeschool their children for multiple reasons. The most commonly given reason for homeschooling is religious and/or moral values. These reasons make up roughly seventy-five percent of parents. Some of these parents want more spiritual lessons taught that would not be provided in other schools. Others do not want their children to learn about evolution theories or sex education. The second most popular reason for hom...
The screeching decibels of my alarm clock woke me at five-thirty that morning. Football practice the day before completely destroyed my body leaving my arms and legs almost unmovable. All my strength was used to stand that morning. My brother told me to stop complaining and get ready for school. He was older and always bossed me around. “I don’t want to go to school” I exclaimed! “What are you going to do, sit at home and stay dumb?” He said. That is not a bad idea I thought. I can teach myself. I imagined the possibility of being homeschooled. I knew homeschooling was not an option for me. My mother worked two jobs and was hardly home to check my homework. If it was an option, homeschooling would be my choice. Homeschooling is a better choice than a Public School education. Homeschooling offers
Homeschooling is often portrayed as an overprotective mom - unwilling to let her kids leave her for a day at school, and a large number of children, all unable to hold a conversation, let alone function normally in society. As someone who was homeschooled from kindergarten through eighth grade, I can attest that my homeschool experience was the exact opposite of this confining stereotype.
Homeschooling is a non-traditional method of education. It allows parents to have a more direct approach to their child’s education by teaching them at home, as opposed to a traditional school environment. In Tara Westover’s memoir Educated, Tara discusses her experience with homeschooling in a fundamentalist Mormon household, and how her education was impacted by it. Tara’s story demonstrates the effects of homeschooling on children, and how it affects them through adulthood. There are many different reasons why parents choose to homeschool their kids.
A survey done by the U.S. Department of Education in 2007 says that 83.3% of parents chose homeschooling because of religious or moral instructions (“Homeschooled Students”). The first amendment in the U.S. constitution plays a good backbone for this reasoning, the separation between church and state. Government has already taken majority of “religion” out of public school, giving the reason why religious parents are beginning to homeschool. If the government begins to interfere with homeschooling, the same thing could happen; the study and practice of their specific religion would soon die away, because of the strong curriculum that would be given by the
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. It helps them create a better life for them and their
Many schools promote social events and interacting with fellow classmates to further their social boundaries, “Schools and teachers try to promote significant interactive experiences among their students. Another tool used is student service activities—fundraising, student-student tutoring, and volunteer work of various kinds. these activities are encouraged.prepare students for life outside of school”(Wynne). Public schooling offers a place where students can get along, and prepare them for life after school. By contrast, homeschooling is rarely so integrated....
There are many reasons for homeschooling a child. These reasons include, religious reasons, lack of a good public school district, and distrust of any school district for one’s child, to name a few. Many professionals are completely against the practice of home schooling, says Thomas Shannon, executive director of the National School Board Association. He says that home schooling is “a giant step backward into the 17th century. (Stencel, 1994)
...l that it is a decision that a parent needs to make, based on what they feel are important standards for learning. Home schooling provides a more relaxed environment, with a one on one learning environment and a flexible schedule. It also provides a pace that is best for the child, an environment on areas children want to focus on as well as confident student who doesn¦Ðt have to deal with the feelings of others. However, it decreases the socialization of the child, less exposure to different ethnicities and a limited view of the real world. The parents probably do not have the knowledge they need to teach, there are more distractions to deal with and parents may not know how to teach. These ideas are serious to think about and only add to the controversial idea of home schooling.
Homeschooled children’s personal education doesn’t get overlooked. According to “homeschooling vs. public schooling: making the right choice” in the Huffington Post, Marion Lewis states, that public schools focus on teaching the average student; which means any student above or below average doesn’t get what he/she needs. With so many students it’s no wonder many students are getting overlooked. Marion states that class sizes are too big, with class ratios being anywhere from one teacher with twenty students to a whopping thirty students to one teacher. Homeschooling helps fix this problem by having individualized education for each student. With homeschooling, the parent has the opportunity to pick out of the many curriculum options the right one to teach their child the way best suited for them. Marion also mentions how one on one teaching helps the parent (in this case the teacher) find and target the students weaknesses to help focus on fixing those weaknesses.
Thesis Statement: Homeschooled students often achieve higher academic success and are more active in their communities than traditionally schooled students, due to a personalized approach to learning that emphasizes individuality.
The major reasons for homeschooling cited by two-thirds of the parents interviewed are concern about the school environment, dissatisfaction with the academic programs, and the desire for religious or moral instruction (National Center for Education Statistics [NCES], 2004). Parents feel ...