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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. The age when a childrens may stop going to school varies from sixteen to eighteen (Aasen, 2010). But actually, homeschool it is not a better choice for the children because, while those who oppose that homeschooling
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It does emphasize the importance of student socialization (Wentzel & Looney. 2007). As we know that, socialitation is the process whereby people acquire the rules of behavior and systems of beliefs and attitudes that equips a person to function effectively as a member of a particular society (Chang, Gould & Meuse, 2011). Homeschool parents are aware of the issue of socialization and are strongly committed to providing positive socialization opportunities for their children (Romanoswski, 2006, p. 126). Public school provides a better social interaction between each childrens. Homeschool there is not much scope for social interaction. In public schools, there are many of students coming from different cultures and family backgrounds, so students are sufficiently exposed to social interaction which builds their social skills and enables them to learn the proper way to communicate with others students. From the communication they have and interaction with others students, they can have many friends to help each other if they have many task to do from the teachers. Whereas, homeschool just have one or two families so they can not have a good opportunities to do the social interaction between others …show more content…
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. But actually, the good choice to the children beside homeschooling is public schools because, it is provides a more diverse experience than homeschooling such as better social interaction. As we know that, socialitation is the process whereby people acquire the rules of behavior and systems of beliefs and attitudes that equips a person to function effectively as a member of a particular society (Chang, Gould & Meuse, 2011), feel more confidence to answer teacher’s questions. It is evident that a question is the strongest point of effective teaching which can stimulate students’ motivation, focus their attention, help their learning and thinking, and also help the teacher know how well a student’s learning is (Dillon, 1988), and not only provide a better education for children with the profesional teachers to teaching, but also provide a good achievment from the students they are teaching in public school
Although the reason some families choose to home school is because they want a stronger, more personal education for their child, it has been seen that some children simply drop out of school and say that they are homeschooling, when in reality they are not studying anything since tradition education is not required in the Un...
Homeschooling offers flexibility and can be a stress reliever for many. Home school gives children the opportunity to learn when they learn best, whether that be in the morning or in the afternoon. Some children prefer to work alone others with their peers. The parents will determine what their child’s learning style is. If the child need more or less time on a subject then they will have the chance to go over the subject as many time it is necessary for the student to learn it, or in the other hand if they completely comprehend the subject they can make a decision to skip it. A flexible schedule gives these options and many more to students compared to public or private schooling.
Homeschooling offers students a more time efficient education that allows the student to focus on education in which is the sole purpose for school. Homeschooling also gives the teacher a thorough evaluation of a student’s strengths and weaknesses by visually seeing what subjects they excel in and what subjects they are weak in. At this point students can increase their individual progression in each subject. Homeschooling permits control of the environment a student learns in to retain the focus of the student. This will reduce the chances of drug usage, bullying, and violence. Samuel Blumenfeld said this on the importance of homeschooling “The home is a safe haven for the children in a world awash with drugs, sexually transmitted diseases, violence, and moral corruption” (Cindy Mur et al.76). When parents come to realize that the home is the safest place for their children, then will they act as Blumenfeld concludes “I look forward to the day when the public schools will be virtually empty not because we have abolished public education but because the parents will have abandoned it” (Cindy Mur et al.
Education - is a process of identity formation. School education is the way society can convey necessary skills and knowledges from one generation to another. However what happens, when school education conflicts with the true interest of student? It might seem from first sight that homeschooling is the best option, considering the current state of technology and globalization economy, but its arguable if it can truly substitute school.
Although opponents of home schooling claim that children who are educated at home do not develop their social skills at the same rate as their peers who attend traditional schools, research findings indicate that students who are home-schooled develop socially at the same rate as those who are traditionally schooled.
There are many ways to teach children in the world. Some children are learning at the school and others are learning at home. Homeschooling is one of the most common ways to teach children. Because of, technologies, the numbers of home schooling are increasing. Nowadays, many parents teach their children at home because they are able to use the Internet and read about anything they want. Moreover, homeschooling has different ways to teach children; it depends on the parents and the methods they teach. Some of the parents take courses to improve their knowledge about how they can educate their children and teach them new things. Some of the children like to study in a group, so parents communicate with other friend’s parents and decided to go on a trip with each other and study. Although many parents think that home schooling is beneficial for their children, students should not be homeschooled for several reasons: it is dangerous for children’s health, children will have limited education, and it does not have much quality.
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.
Families who decide to homeschool their children will have to spare much of their time to watch over their children’s progress and education, which could result in reducing the family income as one of the parents must stay home to make sure that everything is prepared and done right for their kids preventing making it impossible for both parents to be employed. Homeschooling have proven that it’s better as an educational system, but it does have some negative effects on the children, homeschool parents should expose their kids to the outside world give them the space to explore and interact with the unknown, expose to other ideas beyond their own, and let them interact with other children who are not homeschooled, they also need to teach them to question all things even the family ideas and way of living.
I have chosen to write this essay about homeschooling. Homeschooling is one option for schooling children, along with public and private schools. Many people do not believe in homeschooling because they do not trust that parents are teaching their children correctly. They argue that parents can’t teach their children without proper training and that without it. They also worry that students will not learn to socialize or function in society and that homeschooling is just a way to hide children from the real world. A lot of people fear homeschooling because they do not know very much about that form of education. On the other hand many peoples opinion is that homeschooling has many benefits and that it gives
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.
It is important to note that it is a right for the children to have a quality education. In this aspect, reasonable learning environments are a critical factor contributing to children education. All parents want their children to have an access to quality and better education. In the quest for such, parents always seek learning environments with competent teachers and better learning facilities. It is therefore, common to see parents always having a choice to make between taking their children to public schools, private school or have the children taught at home. Different opinion about home schooling and public school has recently been a subject of contention. Either way, the two forms of learning should offer the learning child with a better education. Nevertheless, each of the two forms of learning environments should be supported by valid arguments as discussed below.
The school events every school year were always the highlight for me going to public school. At first I was extremely shy more like anti-social but if it wasn’t for attending public school I wouldn’t have most of the close friends I have today. I’ve realized students taking online class or furthering education from home called “homeschool” doesn’t give the same feeling as sitting in a classroom with peers who have class with you. Being Homeschooled can’t give you any possibility of connecting to peers or teachers the way public school does. In Public school with peers or teachers, you can speak to them, share tangible contact, sight them in the hallways going from class to class and enjoy school events full of everybody you see at school daily. As stated from education bugs.com, a con of home school is “It’s harder to provide social interaction”, taken from the online article Public school vs. Home school. I know no one enjoys being socially awkward, it’s like speaking
Socialization is the process of passing down norms, customs, and ideologies that are important to the society by the previous generations to the younger generations. The school system is a social agency that was created to enhance the processes of socialization through education. The importance of school as an agent of socialization can be best explained by the amount of time students spend in school and in activities happen around school. The manifest functions of school are to educate students the social norms, and the knowledge and skills that help them become economically productive in order to benefit the society. But students not only learn from the academic curriculum but they also benefit from socialize with their teachers and peers.