What are your thoughts/opinion about home schooling?
caltam84 asked:
Home schooling can mean a lack of interference with other kids and peer pressure, but may lack some social interaction.
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Home schooling can mean a lack of interference with other kids and peer pressure, but may lack some social interaction.
June 1st, 2009 at 11:34 am
I home schooled myself through high school and I had a lot of social interaction with everyone, and I still do with all of my friends from elementary and middle school. I am fourteen and graduated. I have a job, and I am taking college classes at a local community college.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Well, I believe that without the pressure of public schools and the strictness of any private school, it can be a great way for any child to learn well. It is also cheaper. I never was home schooled, but i also think that it doesn’t give social chances. If you live in a family neighborhood with more children in it,or the child has other home schooled siblings, it might be ok. Also any home schooled child should be involved in sports or other activities. I myself, think that by a certain age it should be up to the children themselves.
June 4th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Your assertion is based only false presumptions. In fact, a homeschooled child has more opportunity to socialize with a wider population of people than their brick schooled counterparts. Their peers may indeed pressure them, but the effect of that pressure is diluted by the variety of exposure to more family, friends and neighbors. A homeschooled youth may not see his peers as only being people his age. There is no desperation to fit in to avoid bullying or exclusion. A homeschooled child grows in a loving atmosphere where their authentic self is encouraged and mature role models are not vastly outnumbered by immature role models. Usually such a child or youth has a stronger sense of self and is less interested in the likes and dislikes of others and in “fitting in”. The factory like atmosphere that is intentionally present in our current public school system (based on the outdated Prussian system) is set up in such a way as to stamp out individuality. Kids are placed in rows, told when to eat, when to speak, when to void their bowels and what to think. It is a passive way to learn where the student’s only task is to receive and accept the information taught to him. That is why I believe peer pressure gets so out of hand and so destructive in public school settings. It is not that the child spends more time socializing. It is that the system itself creates a fertile atmosphere for homogeny. Homeschooling does not train children to be passive receptors who are told what to think and how to dress. It is as versatile as the families that school at home.
June 6th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
The second part of your question isn’t entirely clear. It sounds like you’re saying on the one hand that HS removes some negatives but you’re concerned about a corresponding lack of positive interactions? If so then the first part is certainly true and the second part is only true if you make no effort to prevent it. By choosing to HS you can choose where to socialise at clubs, societies, teams, classes, whatever. Such socialising is likely to be more healthy than that at school as you can mix with varied ages and backgrounds and yet with people who share an interest.
June 7th, 2009 at 5:15 am
Do you lock your kids in a closet day and night? We sure don’t it would drive us insane. Our kids are just as socialized as any others. They may not spend 35-40 hours a week in a brick and morter school but they easily spend that amount of time in the real world learning how reality really works.
June 9th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
It’s good if you apply yourself and go to some homeschooling groups.