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hello
i would like to know more about the disadvantages of homeschooling. I am doing a letter to the editor for a school assesment task and I need to find as many disadvantages as possible. If you can help please respond.
It depends...
If a parent tries to home-school a child without any connection with a school, there are several disadvantages:
Curriculum is not in line with what children are expected to know
Textbooks are not easily available
standardized testing is not available
The child tend to spend more time on subjects that he/she likes and does not tackle the weak spots
Unless the parent is connected with social and athletic activities in the community, the child does not develop these aspects.
If, however the parent has the child enrolled in an "independent study" program, the have access to textbooks, testing, and curriculum consistent with a grade level expected in their state.
The major flaw I see is that the parent gets to a point, usually Jr. high age where math and science are beyond their ability to teach. As the child gets older, it is more difficult to put them in a school setting.
I would appreciate some feedback as I am new to this board. Thanks!
I am not for homeschooling. For one, interaction with other kids is vital for the formation & growth of a character in a child. Let her experience what we have experienced. Best friends, crushes, long lines in the school canteen. A child who has a restricted environment tend not to adjust well in the big, bad world. Secondly, there is always procastination. When you have no deadlines or no competition, there is less determination to make good.
The most primal disadvantage of homeschooling equates unto social relations and emotional development....
It is possible for a child to attain great academic and scholastics achievements in such a setting, this can not be argued because the attention and focus is very concentrated; therefore, a lot more of the material can be covered, especially noting the child's level of intellectual attainment and advancement...however, with this in perspective, the child is not subjected to experience uncommon authority and expectations. The child is not able to relate to that which is different...exposure to every thing under the sun is quite limited...we see this in public school whereby the population is homogenous...the introduction of another race, culture creates fear and unrealistic expectations...based on fiction or vain imaginations...the ability to treat each incident or person based on the merit presented versus a collective standard...
Homeschooling does not adequately prepare a child to variant degrees of expectation...it does not allow the child to develop beyond its exposure, the primary caregiver becomes the child every thing which cripples and weakens them emotionally, especially if something unexpected were to happen. The child's social skills can vary from one extreme to the other...from feeling inadequate due to lack of experience unto feeling grandiose due to limited competition. This is true with children not homeschool, but the propensity is greater. Team like attitude is not stressed, the ability to compromise for the greater good, and not unto self-destruction. The development, the actualization of the sense of self as seen through the eyes of others completely hindered because teachers present an array of persona and expectation levels which will foster creative character...sometimes pulling from an internal source of strength to overcome belittlement...sometimes the very expectation of failure creates a strong will and drive to a focused level of surpassing...homeschooling disadvantages are solely and strictly related to a child ability to absorb and process the world, that from an inner perspective, from family or heritage perspectives unto that from society's standard of living...the ability to uphold the best from all worlds to make it ones own. The emotional and social development can be stagnated; however, if the primary caregiver balances her/his role with the child, expose the child to other unique environments, it may not be a socially damaging; however, in most cases, the choice for homeschooling is to prevent such exposure.
home schoolers would never pretend that they are sending in a 'letter to the editor' that is not about something they themselves actively care about. If a homeschooler sent a letter to the editor it would be to complain about an issue that matters to them personally, and not a "made up" letter. secondly does your class also have people making up letters praising advantages of home schooling, or is this merely a campaign by your school or teacher to send such a flood of letters to a actual editor that one of them makes it into the paper, in which case they are not doing education at all, but instead merely proselytize into their religion of worshiping 'not home schooling' public education.
Sad that teachers make religious converts but no other religions are allowed.
more disadvantages for home schoolers:
home schoolers get higher scores on academic tests.
home schoolers must have learned how to think for themselves.
home schoolers get higher scores on college admission tests.
home schoolers have lower teacher to student ratios.
home schoolers spend more quality time with parents.
home schoolers spend less travel time to and from school.
home schoolers can spend more time on the education skills.
home schoolers have closer contact with education administration.
home schoolers cost less to transport to and from school each day.
you might ask why are those things disadvantages? because the educational community at public schools 'thinks' they are disadvantages.
You see it is the insanity of the educational community that causes such stupidity as any resistance to home schooling in the first place, because everyone should be home schooled, only then can we actually get the equal playing field that all children should have. only then can it be determined who is better for what job, and who should do greater things. the problem is the people who run education have the lowest grade point averages of all students at college! anyone in any other field or major is smarter than them!
WOW! I am surprised to read all the "negatives" of home schooling. Are people really that closed minded, and do people really believe this? I would think one would research something before posting on the subject. I am a newbie, and this is my first post. My daughter is 14 years old, and I have homeschooled her for most of her life. I home school my daughter because I have not been able to find a school that can meet her needs. My daughter has autism, however she is very high functioning, and she tests out as gifted.
I actually put my daughter in an intergrated public school program for 2 months when she was in kindegarten, however the teacher expected her to sit still and learn a letter (of the alphabet) each week, even though she was already reading middle school books. My daughter's teacher punished my daughter when she displayed appropriate coping skills that her psychologist taught her. Her teacher did a great job of crushing her self esteem. I homeschooled my daughter the rest of the year, and we tried again the following year. This time my daughter tried a private school. There were only 10 typical kids in the class of 2nd and 3rd graders. My daughter skipped 1st grade and was put in this class. She made 100% on all her 3rd grade work, but again was only in that school for a few months. The kids teased her and when she said "sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me", the kids picked up rocks and sticks and threw them at my daughter. During Christmas break, the school got a new slide. My daughter loved the new slide. When the kids went down the slide, their shoes left black marks on the slide... My daughter loved to spend 2 hours each day picking these marks off. I could not allow my daughter to be engaged in this behavior for 2 hours each day, (not to mention tormented by the kids), so I once again took her out of school. I have homeschooled my daughter ever since.
Regarding social skills..... what kinds of social skills would she have gotten in school? Her self esteem was crushed from school. Through homeschool, I am able to teach my daughter not only the academics, but also social skills. When we are with other children and she is inappropriate, I am there to see what happens, and talk about how she could have handled the situation differently. My daughter will always have social deficits, but I know in my heart she never could have come as far as she has if she were dumped in school all day to be made fun of. And by the way, my daughter has been a girl scout for 8 years, and also in 4-H for 6 years. Oh, and did I mention that this is my daughter's 2nd year as President of her 4-H club? The kids are the one's who elect their officers. I am only bragging because of all the negative things I've read on here about homeschooling.
And my daughter not only learns from me, but she learns on her own, and she learns from others. Currently she works regularly with vets, participates in necropsies (animal autopsies), and so much more! Homeschooling is what you make it..... Each child is a unique person with their own gifts to give the world.
PS. We are white, however my daughter's amazing mentor, who my daughter absolutely adores, idolizes, and who is also a vet, is a black woman. All the kids in our girl scout troop are white, however my daughter is the only white person in her 4-H club (the other kids are hispanic, black, etc.). Most of my daughter's friends are in public or private school. My daughter's best friend is a "typical" kid who is awesome, who is a 4.6 GPA student who loves animals just like my kid.
My daughter has taught me so much about life, love and even academics. I wouldn't trade her for any kid in the world. Wishing you open mindedness and acceptance of others, even if they are different. How boring the world would be if we were all the same.
The way I have seen people address the problem of providing sufficient social interaction for the home schooled is to band together and plan activities.
I don't know exactly how they contact each other, but they do.
Of course, if a person lives in a sparsely populated area, this may not be possible.
It is considerable work to make this happen, and one has to really believe in home schooling to accomplish this.
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