What do you think is better tradition school or home schooling?

That's the problem I don't want them to explore and experience some of the things that they can be exposed to in public schools. They have small mobile police departments and medal detectors and the teachers are only there for a check they are not concern with the children. And most of all the children are more and more disrespectful, I want to be able to monitor who my daughter associates with.

Yeah thats true too ! Ummm its hard to decide now a days with the school system being so crazy and not responsible , it seems like the kids are teaching the teachers not the teachers teaching kids..its a shame ! its like teachers come to get paid and dont care about teaching..sad !!

And that is exactly one of the problems, they don't teach and they don't care. I just don't feel anymore confidence in leaving my children with these teachers for 7 hours a day. They have a major impact on a child and if they don't care that could result into a problem for the children.

My oldest was in third grade and my next oldest was in 2nd. My daughter has never gone to public school and neither will my youngest child. Homeschooling has its challenges but there are tons of options out there to help with any problems that you might come up with. One site that I really like is ~~sites for teachers dot com~~. I can't recommend it enough.

I agree with you I think they can learn social skills without having to go to traditional school. I feel they will get a more responsible and mature social demeanor if they stay home with me where I can guide them and instruct them on how to carry themselves and deal responsible with any given situation. How old were your children when you started homeschooling them and is it hard to home school them.

That is exactly what I am trying to avoid, I don't want my daughter to have to deal with peer pressure because she is not a very social child either.And I don't particularly want them to socialize with some of these children, they are disrespectful, fresh and just ill mannered. I get frustrated every time I pick her up from school, listening to some of the conversations these children are having. I don't want her to grow up too quickly or feel pressured to grow up.

Personally I didn't have the good old days at school.... I rather hated school and some of the unnecessary class that were taught that I have not used since I took it in school. And I can provide them with gym, they get sports now at the Pal where they learn tennis, basketball and golf. As far as friendships go I am not to keen on that idea since it was a person my son called "friend" that killed him. So I am all the friend she needs and she has an older sister. I was a graphic design major so I can teach them art and music isn't a problem either they have this available for home schooling. They make sure the student have the same education as in school and I feel I could show them things that are not in school that could help them deal with actually life. And because I was a child who was "mentally gifted" I know how boring school can get when they don't give you challenging work. They are not giving her things to challenge her mind. She has to stay where the other children are because there are only a hand full like her in her class.

I promise you if you met my kids you would know within 30 seconds that your opinions of homeschooling needs to be broadened. There is nothing at all 'hermitish' about my kids. They can adapt to any situation as it arises and are very good people who know how to deal with anyone and everyone.

Hi, I must disagree my daughter is very introverted and finds it very distracting and irritable in some of her classes because of the disruption of other classmates. She is in a classroom full of students and she stays to herself. She has one classmate she befriend and that is because she had the same quiet demeanor. She doesn't like loud, obnocious children and she keeps her nose in a book. She comes home and likes to be in the house curled up with a book. She went to Saint Joseph University for a Breakthrough program and the gave her a leadership role because she is so focused on her education. And she has no friends outside of school, I believe that children develop leadership qualities, through learning and growth. Just because they are in a room full of their peers doesn't show them how to lead it show them how to be in a group, not ever child will be a leader in that group. I believe a child or anyone can only be a hermit if they have no interaction with any other human being. A child can learn social skills from their parents, that is where they learn from initially. Being focused on your education and defining your goals and how to achieve them makes you a great leader because you have learned, planned and executed what you set out to do.

As a homeschooling mother of four children I can tell you that you have no clue what homeschooling is really about. Yes there are some families who are very much isolated but most are not. I am 100% certain that my boys and my 10 year old daughter for that matter would not hesitate to go into any situation that you yourself would go into and do it without fear or hesitation unless it was deemed necessary for their safety. I'm not sure where you get your opinions of homeschooling from but you might want to broaden your horizons just a little bit more. We learn at home for the most part but their life (and a good bit of learning) is spend in the real world, not locked away behind a fence for hours and hours on end with the same people day in and day out and when school is done it is done. There is not 6 hours of homework to be done at night to get ready for the next day and I will never have to teach to a test the way that so many public school teachers are forced to. My children learn what they need to know and much more on their own time and at their own pace. If they finish in one hour that is great, if it takes them a week that is great too. Not only do they learn what they have to learn but they also learn what they choose to learn and they learn everything completely and often very in depth. They can learn as much about a subject as they choose because I'm not limited to what is in the book and I don't have to rush to the next objective.