<p>^ Longest post ever?</p>
<p>Anyway I would be for homeschooling but I can’t imagine my parents teaching me.My dad would be a FANTASTIC teacher but if it’s anything like him attempting to teach me how to drive then it will result in failiure. That being said to learn 1-on-1 from a tutors in essentially whatever I wanted would be amazing…</p>
<p>I was homeschooled from first grade on, initially because my parents didn’t think my twin brother and I were getting an equal education (I could read after Kindergarten, he couldn’t) then we just stuck with it.</p>
<p>The trouble with asking a question like “Homeschooling: for or against?” is that there’s such a range of homeschooling styles. Some families are very disorganized, letting their kids study whatever interests them, with no look at the future, while others have a set curriculum with syllabi and weekly expectations. My mom researched what text books high schools were using for their AP and honors courses and that what my brother and I used all through high school. We also took courses at a local college (which were even easier than the coursework we did at home).</p>
<p>I understand the socialization question, because I’ve met those awkward homeschooled kids too and I hate that they’re the stereotype people have. The thing is that the normal homeschoolers blend in with everyone else and everyone assumes they went to a normal high school, it’s only the weird ones who people ask if they were homeschooled which just feeds the negative stereotype.</p>
<p>there is nothing wrong with homeschooling. everyone has a right to raise their child however they want. and none of you CCers should try to tell me (if i was a parent) how to raise my child.</p>
<p>^If you as a parent wished for your child to be educated some way (either public/private or homeschooled), then you obviously can. </p>
<p>No one is telling you how to raise your child (when you have one). We’re all just discussing our personal opinions, but the majority of us agree that it ultimately depends on the child and his/her own circumstances.</p>
<p>Harvard, why not? The state tells you all the time what you can and cannot do with your child. We tell them how long they must go to school for, how many hours they can work, how they ride in a car, when they can drive a car, and then later who they can and cannot marry. Why should school be any different?</p>
<p>if i do have kids (99% chance) ill most likely (99% chance) be home-schooling them. i’m by no means up to par with any of CCers grade-wise, but i still think traditional education here seems to be lacking. in elementary/middle school there was barely a challenge. i feel like we were learning at such a watered down pace. </p>
<p>high school might change though. if i do allow my kids to attend a “regular” high school it would have to be a top-rated rigorous one. not your run-of-the-mill town high school. but thats just me. </p>
<p>personally ive been through public education k-8 and private 9-12 (am a senior). i mean its alright. but i feel like i could teach me kids so much more if they were homeschooled. assuming i have the time, or maybe hire a tutor. </p>
<p>of course i haven’t really looked into home-schooling so much. probably wont anytime soon actually. IM 17! lol. :)</p>
<p>Is it bad that one of my teachers wants to home school her daughter because she thinks public education is being dumbed down?</p>
<p>(So many of my teachers are saying stuff like this this . . .)</p>
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<p>Well, it’s later than average.</p>
<p>I think it depends on the situation. Sometimes, kids live in an area with absolutely terrible schools and there’s no way out. In that case, homeschooling might be better, if the parent is capable. However, often, I think students would benefit from the social interactions found within the normal school environment.</p>
<p>why do other people (aka the government) attempt to tell me what i gotta do with my child. at the end of the day, i knw betta than the government whts good for my child. (assuming i have a child, of course)</p>
<p>“Harvard, why not? The state tells you all the time what you can and cannot do with your child. We tell them how long they must go to school for, how many hours they can work, how they ride in a car, when they can drive a car, and then later who they can and cannot marry. Why should school be any different?”</p>
<p>There are wars going on in Africa, why don’t we just nuke the whole continent. Lots of people are dieing anyway, lets just kill some more.</p>
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<p>Not even remotely the same thing, but nice try.</p>
<p>I agree it’s an absurd comparison, but you’re applying the same thought, “The government is already too powerful, so why don’t we just become Communists?”</p>
<p>^ That’s not what I said at all. I was asking a serious question- if the government already has control over all of these areas of our lives, why do we have a problem with them being involved in education? We don’t seem to have a problem with them mandating the other standards of life that children are required to have.</p>
<p>Ah, okay. I think I can clarify… We do but they can’t enforce a lot of the laws they make, and those they do we can’t do much about.</p>
<p>Most people are against incest and 8 year olds driving, but people stop going to school when they feel like it with very little interference. People work what hours they want (or have to to keep the job) and if the company is paranoid, they get paid under the table. If not they log the fact that they’re breaking the law and don’t think anything of it. And how often do people get pulled over for having a kid not in a car seat? Maybe driving with an infant on their lap but not for a 3 year old in a seat with a seatbelt.</p>
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<p>Because maybe you want to do something stupid with your child.</p>
<p>Okay I’m not straight out against it, but I would never want to be homeschooled nor would allow my child to be homeschooled in the future. Everyone needs to get out into the real world, not be shunned away from society. I know a few homeschooled kids that have low self esteem and just can’t seem to adjust with others. Then again there are kids that are sufficiently “well developed”, so I guess it just depends.</p>
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<p>So you’re fine with locking your child in the closest until he/she listens to you, but then he/she doesn’t and starves to death? I mean, of course EVERYONE knows what’s in the best interest of their children… :rolleyes:</p>
<p>It depends…</p>
<p>“So you’re fine with locking your child in the closest until he/she listens to you, but then he/she doesn’t and starves to death? I mean, of course EVERYONE knows what’s in the best interest of their children.”</p>
<p>Maybe not but it’s also not right (nor is it better) to assume that no one knows what’s in their children’s best interests.</p>