Home School!

[voltaire4]

Who have kids that r in home school? does it work out better than public schools? if so, have they been in public schools and then taken out and enrolled in home school? the reason i ask, my wife is so adament about home schooling our kids. we haven't come to an agreement on wheter it's home school or public school. i am all for public school. i just wanted to get an insight on home schooling.

[JessieKateRose]

Homeschooling has the pro of you being able to teach your children what you want in the way you want
But they need to learn social skills. They need to be around lots of other children in order to do this. If you don't encourage them to get out there and make friends now, they will have trouble doing it later in life.

[tenchikou]

i wish i was homeschooled

[jenniferbottorff]

i think there are benefits to homeschooling but the children miss interaction they need in the real world, i know some homeschooled kids and they are really sheltered

[Zora1]

I was home schooled, I think it is the only way to go

[oldbuddy]

If you are home schooled, how are you going to learn to defend yourself? I think you need to get your butt kicked so you can toughen up and that happens best at public school. 

[jusu]

I home schooled my Son, he's 22 now and a good man. I took him out after 3rd. grade. We picked subjects of interest and importance and he had a real want to learn. We had Library one day a week and a set schedule. Our school system had many famlies that home schooled. He always had a ton of friends, never anti-social. You can look on-line for so much good info and ideas. I knew it was the right thing to do. He had his GED at 17. I'd make the same choice today. School or not, he still had his fair share of getting his butt kicked...and he knew how to defend himself.

[Marissaj820]

My parents took me out of jr. high because of all the gangs, drugs, murders, ect. I was always having to defend my self in fights. I'm in high school now, It helps alot with gaining maturity, but the social aspect of it really sucks, and its hard to get help from teachers who take forever to respond to your questions. When they do respond it doesn't help me because i need to be shown and taught personally to learn. Since I've been home schooled for 2 years, I haven't had any interaction with friends, and I'm usually always home. So I would have to say it's not a good idea.  I'm going back to public school next semester.

[home_teachin]

If you are home schooled, how are you going to learn to defend yourself? I think you need to get your butt kicked so you can toughen up and that happens best at public school. 

Kids aren't fighting like they did when you were in school. Defending themselves now includes guns sometimes. The schools I went to were terrible. Kids set fires, we had bomb threats constantly, and 2 kids I went to school with were beat to death Freshman year.

I homeschool. It's not really an issue anymore of whether hs kids are smarter than ps kids. It's been proven. That's why they keep winning the spelling and geography bees. They are also less nervous, depressed, and anxious than most other children.
I can't understand why a parent would want to spend the first 5 years of their childs life teaching them the values and lessons they want them to learn, and then hand them to strangers to take over.

It's true you need to make sure they are social, but that doesn't have to mean 30 kids their own age. That will teach them that mob mentality that kids embrace when they team up against the weaker kids. They need to spend time around kids and people of all ages. My son can fit in a group of kids, teens, and adults pretty equally. He's also confident and he loves to learn, you don't get that with the public schools.

If you are worried about your children being able to defend themselves, put them in a Martial Arts class. It's worked for us.

[Marissaj820]

In my opinion home school makes kids more depressed, because they dont get to experience what other kids who are in public school get to. Home school shelters kids more, and i dont think they will be open to reality if they are home schooled, Martial arts wouldn't teach a kid to defend themself lol. Street fighting is much different. Public school and the bad/good experiences that comes with it teaches a kid how to handle him/herself  in reality, and real situations.

[selerson]

I was home schooled but my children are going to public schools, mostly because I have four of them and am a single parent and dont have time to teach them myself!!

The pros from my experience is that I learned how to look up things and learn things that I was interested in, not what others WANTED me to be interested in. I now have a very good career as a medical transcriptionist for a hospital. I work from home and have the knowledge, drive, and self discipline to make it happen week after week. I learned how to type 100+ wpm and am interested in the medical field but didnt want to get my "hands dirty" so I was able to find a career that suits me perfectly because I did only what I wanted and needed to learn and although my mother made sure I learned the basics, she took my sister and I on "field trips" for learning what we were interested in instead of reading it out of a book.

The biggest con I can see is that yes, I am a little socially awkward. I never got a chance to do the "high school thing". I didn't go to prom. I didn't have a boyfriend until i was 17. I can't relate to other people when they talk about those things. Because I isolated myself as a teen, that carried into my adult life and am still doing it. I have no coworkers and no friends (except people I chat with online) and some depression because of that.

Overall, it was a positive experience though

[Ibnmorgan]

When People first Here about homeschooling the first thought that comes to mind is " oh that child is sheltered from the world" I can Tell you now As a homeschooler My self ( I am A senior this year) that Homeschooling has Changed My life so dramtically i would never go back to public school. ( I was public schooled for four years) Another Large Mis conception Is that People dont think that Homeschoolers doont Interact with  kids. Once Agin not true. In every state they have a homechool Branch, if  you will call it that; Mine is Called CSTHEA. they have all Kinda Of activities such as: theatre, every sport, Socials And Much Much more. Another thing About homeschooling is The People and the kids Are Sooo genuine And very friendly of course u have a bad apple once and a while but its extremly better thn Public school.  A huge Con About Public School Is You have everyone pulling on ur kid and suddely how good your child comes out to be is how ever good the public school is, and let me tell you these public schools are geting much much worse. So My opinion Homeschool 100%

[anguyen21]

In my opinion home school makes kids more depressed, because they dont get to experience what other kids who are in public school get to. Home school shelters kids more, and i dont think they will be open to reality if they are home schooled, Martial arts wouldn't teach a kid to defend themself lol. Street fighting is much different. Public school and the bad/good experiences that comes with it teaches a kid how to handle him/herself  in reality, and real situations.

(Half asleep, hope it makes sense.)

Trust me, there's a whole lot of depression even in public school.  Not calling you out or anything, but I don't think the homeschooling is what matters, but what the kid is experiencing.  Public school has it's ups and downs as well.  It put a strain on my self esteem, sanity, sense of reality, humanity, etc. for a few years.  I can only say that it was luck and a lot of self-reflection that got me out of it.  Of course, I don't regret being in public because it's made me realize a lot about myself and has made be grow into a stronger person, but sadly not everyone will have that revelation like I did. I think as long as the parent make sure their child is prepared mentally but also socially then homeschooling is great.  Homeschooling could save or break people just like public school.  I think the best way for a parent to decide on which one is to reflect on how well of a teacher they can be for there child.  A benefit of public school is the variety of teachers, if one doesn't work you meet another one the following year or semester.  If a parent is proven to be terrible by the child, then that child is stuck.  

[Marissaj820]

I see what you mean, it makes sense.

[ODOMS6598]

I believe that kids are better off being in school, than home-schooled.  They get interaction with other kids, adults and to me they get more exercise than staying at home.  This is just my belief, if ur kids are homeschooled, please don't take offense to anything I am saying.  This is my opinion, because my niece was homeschooled, she is now 25, never goes anywhere, has very few friends and is not as "bright" as she could be.  Like I said, JUST MY OPINION!!!!!