| Home Schooling or Public Schooling: Which is the Most Beneficial?
Hello everyone! This subject is wrought with opinions, statistics, and all sorts of studies. Is home schooling the best way to go when it comes to teaching your children or is public school the more beneficial of the two in the end?
There is the point that public school has its problems with peer pressure, ineffective teachers, and just an extremely negative learning environment overall. Many home school their children for these reasons if not for their own religious reasons.
Than there is the argument that home schooling is in the end the most damaging due to the fact that children who are home schooled are not exposed socially like public students are. As a result end up in the child growing up to develop serious social and behavioral issues.
Points like these can go on forever but my question to you guys is what do you think? Is home schooling the most beneficial or do you think that public school is the best choice in the end? Why or why not?
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When it comes to the children I want to have someday, I want to put them in public school for various reasons. For one, I am not sure if I am going to become a teacher or not. If I don’t get a teaching degree I don’t believe I would be qualified to teach my children.
Not to mention how I want them to develop socially. School helps expose children to people and teaches them how to deal with social situations. I believe it greatly benefits a child’s development and helps them on the way to being a healthy adult.
Statistics show that home schooled children are usually better academically overall when compared to public school children. This is not the case for all and I know this for a fact due to experience. My mother has been a teacher’s aid for GED (Graduation Exam Diploma) classes in adult education. Everyone that is there are either high school drop-outs or individuals who were home schooled. The reasons usually being that the parents were not associated with the state program and were instead associated with a non-legitimate program. Many of them will have to take a number of basic classes to get the proper credentials to enter college and have difficulty passing the mandatory exam for entry as well due to lack of knowledge as a result of inadequate teaching.
Overall, this is my opinion. Home schooling can be effective academically depending on the parents. Saying that all home schooled children end up being studious little geniuses while the public school student ends up being the kid that plays video games never giving a glance to their homework is a stereotypical and biased statement in my eyes. If someone chooses the home schooling lifestyle needs to consider how it will affect the child socially and consider alternatives so that they can get that social exposure. Besides, what is the point in having your child getting ahead academically if they cannot affectively deal with social situations? How will it effect them when they try to apply for a job?
In the end, I’m still putting mine in public school. Anyway, that’s what I think. What about you guys?
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