Home-schooled and illiterate

[Dictator]

I wish I was home-scooled. Wouldn't have to deal with incompetent teachers that are protected by a silly contract and other retarded kids protected by the right of being there because they are paying.

[Methmatician]

Here: http://widenerlawreview.org/files/20...ATES_final.pdf

That paper said the same thing as the one I linked; that home schooled children are likely to do as well or better than public schooled children. There isn't a 'significant' difference as you mentioned earlier.

[TLevin]

That paper said the same thing as the one I linked; that home schooled children are likely to do as well or better than public schooled children. There isn't a 'significant' difference as you mentioned earlier.

"Numerous studies demonstrate that homeschooled students obtain exceptionally high scores on standardized academic achievement tests. For instance, one nationwide study analyzed data from 1,952 homeschooled students across the country and found that the students, on average, scored in the eightieth percentile or higher in every test category (i.e., reading, listening, language, math, science, social studies, study skills, etc.).44 The national mean for these standardized tests, by contrast, was the fiftieth percentile. Numerous other studies have comparable results.45 For example, two other national studies also found that homeschooled students excelled academically. A nationwide study of 20,760 homeschooled students in grade levels K-12 found the median standardized test scores to be in the seventieth to eightieth percentile.46 Similarly, a nationwide study of homeschooled students in Canada found that the students’ average standardized test scores were in the seventysixth to eighty-fourth percentile.47"

[Illancha]

I really like the idea of home-schooling and would seriously consider it for my children. I'm certain I can provide them with a better education than any school judging by my personal school experiences.

[Gustave H]

I would think it's those children that would benefit most from home schooling. How is one teacher suppose to give support to an entire class and a child with ADHD/ADD? If they were home schooled they could receive the attention and support they couldn't get in a classroom where one teacher has to divide their attention among 20-30 kids.

I know home-schooling sounds good for them, but in most cases it isn't. If a family has enough money to hire a tutor for all of his or her classes, then yes I'd say home-schooling is a great idea for that child. But, in many cases the family either doesn't have the money or the desire to hire a tutor for the child. I knew a kid with ADHD and he was home-schooled by his mother. She wasn't a good teacher, he wasn't a good student, and it was a total disaster.

[Linebacker]

Home schooling is probably the best and most sure way to make your kid an autist introvert.

Don't do that shit.

[Sakis]

Home schooling sucks,kids must be socialized.

[Mortimer]

I have mixed feelings, if a parent is very knowledgable or has a private teacher who visits the child at home it could be a good idea and if the child has friends and contact to other children too but i think i wouldnt be able to home school my child really because i wouldnt be a good teacher, i forgot so many things from my school classes etc. i dont know that much to teach a child. maybe i could teach it to read and write and count etc. elementary school stuff or kindergarden stuff but not high school stuff, i couldnt teach physics, mathematics or chemistry etc. i knew one girl who was homeschooled, i knew her online she was from ohio and she homeschooled her little brothers and she was also home schooled when she was a child, she seemed to be smart.

[Breedingvariety]

The question is: do you take matters into your own hands and brainwash your child yourself or do you leave your child to be brainwashed by TV and state education.

[Lyrace]

Homeschooling, if conducted correctly and in a supportive environment, ranks much higher than regular public school education in quality.
It requires the dutiful guidance of at least one parent and weekly meetings at least with other homeschoolers where they can develop socially and emotionally.

If the students remain within their parents' house all the time without social interaction, then the experience will stunt them in various areas.