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I've been wondering how the home schooling student compares with the public educated children, are the home schoolers prepared socially as opposed to Public Ed?
Generally, homeschooled kids have higher ACT and SAT scores than the average public school kids. But that's due to a LOT of factors that homeschoolers refuse to talk about.
I've been wondering how the home schooling student compares with the public educated children, are the home schoolers prepared socially as opposed to Public Ed?
You will find it doesn't matter where a child is educated. A child could be educated with public funds or a parents wallet and come out the same.
It all depends on the parents... It can be a horrible education for the kids or it can be a superior education for the kids. I think the parents need to take an honest look at themselves and decide if it is going to work in their situation. Do they have the: time, patience, dedication, knowledge, enthusiasm, etc (for academic subjects). If the answer is yes, then by all means, go for it. If not, then no, it won't be an adequate education.
Either are only better or worse according to how well they achieve their objective. Every home schooling parent has an individualized objective. Some merely want to indoctrinate their children in their own dogma. Some what their children to enjoy the benefit of a classical education. Some set out to duplicate, more or less, the outcome of a public school education. All of which are very different.
Furthermore, some parents are more competent than others at pedagogy, and their mileage may vary.
Simply put, education of a young human being is not a difficult task, given the natural inquisitiveness of most healthy children. As they grow up in the world, it would be difficult to retard their education. We have set out a couple of faculties that we consider essential to education, namely, the Three Rs. Everything else is just extracurricular, although a basic grasp of science and history are necessary to ascribe a context to daily life. If those faculties are reasonably well addressed, the child will manage as an adult according to whatever intellectual talents he brought into the world with him.
Sadly, education is increasingly knowledge-based, at the expense of wisdom. Our knowledge has grown exponentially, while we stumble along with about the same stagnated level of wisdom that mankind possessed a couple of thousand years ago. Caring home-schoolers might be able to overcome that impediment which the public schools fall prey to.
It really depends on the reason a parent is home schooling and the methods they are using. For instance some home schooling is done in groups where each parent in the group has an expertise in a specific area. Also the location of the home schooling. I have known people who live way up in little mountain villages who home school out of practicality. There are also public school systems that allow home schooled kids to take part in extra curricular activities and they let them attend school assemblies.
Thus the argument. IF its done right, public schooling is fine to.
True.
I've met some very accomplished home-schooled kids who participate in team sports, so they get the socialization they need. They might be active in church, too.
Me, I never could have home-schooled my kids. Just parenting them was enough for me.
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