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| Originally Posted by s_cianci Personally I'm opposed to home schooling. Not so much because of any potential social impact but rather an academic one. |
Since homeschooled children have out performed private and public schooled children in every academic category, on what have you based your opinion?
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I feel that homeschooled children do not develop good work habits as they don't learn to adhere to a schedule, unless the parents doing the homeschooling are very conscientious about establishing a schedule and making sure their children adhere to it. Most parents simply have too many other responsibilities on their plate to establish and implement a proper homeschooling program though they may have good intentions.
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It is precisely because of their good work habits and their conscientious attitude that colleges are now seeking home schoolers for their programs.
After years of skepticism, even mistrust, many college officials now realize it's in their best interest to seek out home-schoolers, said Barmak Nassirian, associate executive director of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.
"There was a tendency to kind of dismiss home schooling as inherently less rigorous," he said. "The attitude of the admissions profession could have at best been described as skeptical."
Home-schooled students _ whose numbers in this country range from an estimated 1.1 million to as high as 2 million _ often come to college equipped with the skills necessary to succeed in higher education, said Regina Morin, admissions director of Columbia College.
Such assets include intellectual curiosity, independent study habits and critical thinking skills, she said.
"It's one of the fastest-growing college pools in the nation," she said. "And they tend to be some of the best prepared." Colleges Coveting Home-Schooled Students, Colleges Aggressively Competing for Home-Schoolers in Quest for Best Students - CBS News Quote:
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The other major concern is that homeschooled children don't acquire a sufficient background in the various academic subjects, unless the parents are highly educated and recall enough of their own schooling to impart the required knowledge to their children/pupils. For example, how many homeschooling parents could tell me how to use trigonometry to solve a right triangle problem?
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Probably, not many. But how many homeschooling parents have access to the library, to websites and to books which explain math and many other subjects? All of them.
And how many homeschooling parents know people with mathematical, scientific and teaching backgrounds who are willing to help? I can't speak for the whole world, but our homeschooling community of perhaps 100 families includes many parents who are willing to tutor our children in virtually every subject from piano to trigonometry and even jewelry making.
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Now this may sound like an extreme example but it is an expected skill for secondary students in the public school system. Any student who leaves high school not knowing how to do this isn't going to be able to progress much further in higher education or the professional world.
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Why? Did you stop learning after high school? In fact, I remember that college used to offer trig classes. Name one college that no longer offers trig classes.
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If one is going to pump gas or flip burgers for a living then fine, but if one wants a successful career (s)he's going to have to know how to do this particular skill, at least for academic reasons if not practical ones. So all things considered I'm generally against homeschooling as an option.
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I don't know what information you've considered. All information that I've seen shows that Homeschoolers excel in every way. Homeschoolers are also more successful academically in College than their public school counterparts.
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De Maria
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