<p>I think there are basic standards for parenting that most people could agree to though. It’s not like the laws are particularly restrictive.</p>
<p>I don’t think the current laws regarding home schooling are a problem. I thought romanigypsieyes was saying home schooling should be illegal.</p>
<p>Homeschooling weakens the public school system further. If everyone left public school when they felt it didn’t suit their needs or didn’t provide enough opportunities, there would be no one left to fight for change. Most people can’t afford to be homeschooled because their parents have to work. The students locked into the public school system need people who are willing to protest when something is not for the good of the students. Parents of homeschooled students have many valuable ideas about education, but no one really benefits other than their children they take out of the system.</p>
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<p>I don’t think it should be illegal in the least, I am just showing that parents don’t ALWAYS know what is best for their kids.</p>
<p>Ah, okay. Fair enough. </p>
<p>Though I’ll say parents know what’s best for their kids FAR more often than the government.</p>
<p>^ Right, I get that. But most of our children’s laws protect the minority rather than the majority. It is designed to protect children against religious fanatics, abusers, etc. The majority of children don’t have parents that they need to be protected against.</p>
<p>^ and what does that have to do with homeschooling?</p>
<p>i just want to have the right to homeschool. and ur denying it.</p>
<p>Definitely against. I feel sorry for home schooled students, they’re missing out. Just in my opinion, don’t hate on me.</p>
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<p>Did I ever say I thought homeschooling should be denied? NO. I said I am against it. </p>
<p>I hope you don’t homeschool your kids because your reading abilities suck. Leave it to the trained teachers, PLEASE!</p>
<p>I have an equally small amount of confidence in my teachers as my parents. Teachers are, quite frankly, useless to anyone with intelligence as they’re too busy with the dumbasses. And most of them wouldn’t be particularly helpful even if you were the only person in the class. Although, the majority seems to be dependent on them as they do not know how to extract information from a book, Google, or even Wikipedia.</p>
<p>My parents are incompetent in their own ways. And I feel that the parent-child relationship is not ideal for teaching.</p>
<p>The ideal learning method is self-study. That is, as long as you want to learn. Then again, if you don’t want to learn, then no method is effective. I’ve learned more from just going to Wiki articles of things that I’m curious about than I have from any teacher or my parents. </p>
<p>If I had to choose though, I’d have to go with public over home school. Public is semi-standardized, the teachers have more training than most parents, and will probably push the average student to do more than home-school. From a personal standpoint, every single person I’ve known that came out of home-school has struggled in public school, which doesn’t help its standing with me.</p>
<p>FYI, laws for home schooling depend on ones state (in the U.S. at least.) Me and my 3 younger brothers are home schooled and we live in a state with laws that don’t restrict that choice.</p>
<p>My mother made the choice to home school us. There is a wide variety of home school textbooks, lesson plans, etc. that are designed to help parents out in the process. The parent can choose to write up their own lesson plans and give lectures as a teacher would, but none of them have to. No one can expect a mother (or father) to take on teaching their child throughout high school singlehandedly, and that is not at all the case. </p>
<p>BMan22 said that he feels the ideal learning method is self-study. By the time you get to high school as a home schooler, you are pretty much on your own. I recieve about 61/2 hours of “lectures” per week. How do I get the rest of the information that one would get in 5 days of classes per week? I study it myself. The help I do get is informal instruction from volunteering teachers who I consider more than qualified to help me. My chemistry teacher has majored in Physics during college, my English teacher majored in speech, etc. My mother and these teachers have pushed me. I’ll never know if it was more than a public school teacher would have, but I can say I have been pushed.</p>
<p>I am taking the same number of credits that I would be in a public school, not out of a legal obligation but for myself. I have recently taken the SAT and scored a 1790/2400. It’s not exactly the “norm” for these boards, but my score is definately on par with other juniors. I can’t say for sure how I would preform in a public school, but my score can at least show I posess average intelligence. Some home schooled students are much, much higher than average (you all should know what I mean,) and some are severely below average (and you know what I mean there as well.) These students’ skill levels are spread out as they would be in any other school. I believe that home schooling has not hurt me or my educational experience, so I am definately for it.
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<p>I have very good friends who are homeschooled. I’m not. My public school is not great but I still can’t imagine being homeschooled. I mean academicaly I might move faster for sure, but I’d miss a lot of other things, like learning how to deal with people, including people who don’t perform well in school. One may arugue that many homeschooled kids are nice and emphathetic. I don’t deny that. but being able to help needs a lot more than just having a good heart. I’m slowly learning.
I also love my friends in school, including many who don’t do well in school, while I’m a straight A students and doing a lot more than what my school expects me to do. I love my friends, that’s basically how I started to grow passion to help them. </p>
<p>I’m sure homeschool has its good things, but I can’t imagine myself being homeschooled. I still remember when I was little, whenver I misbehaved, my mom threatened to homeschool me. I’d do everything not to let her do that.</p>
<p>I think many of the people who are against homeschooling have no idea how bad or unaffordable the other options - public and private - are for many students.</p>
<p>I’m against homeschooling-</p>
<p>I mean <em>sure</em> you can socialize in other ways, like taking dance classes, girl scouts, etc etc, but nothing that will truly prepare you for a college environment. Also, I think the socialization is much different in an academic setting than in an EC one- because there you learn how to deal with people who are cutthroat/competitive, debating with a whole classroom of people, dealing with the social politics of high school life- which although sounds petty, is also useful in college and when you’re trying to move up the corporate ladder, in real life.</p>
<p>I mean, if a parent has a problem with their student “wasting time” at a local high school because of the bad quality, why don’t they try sending them to one of the gifted/magnet high schools or a good private school, where they will definitely be challenged? Just because you are faring better than your public school friends doesn’t mean you’re learning up to your potential which could be found at an elite or gifted school, while still being adequately socialized.</p>
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<p>Are you kidding me? I grew up in Detroit Public Schools- one of THE worst school districts in the country. And I am still staunchly against homeschooling.</p>
<p>LAUSD ftmfw</p>
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<p>Because clearly, no low-income or lower-middle-income students ever have problems with low-quality schools.</p>
<p>Magnet schools don’t typically have tuition. And you can generally find a better public school if you’re willing to make a long commute.</p>
<p>Of course picking schools is always more of an issue if you live in a less populated area.</p>
<p>against. 10char.</p>
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<p>Touche.</p>
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