Home School or Normal School

United States
June 26, 2009 9:49pm CST
In case you do not know about it: "Homeschooling or home school (also called home education or home learning) is the education of children at home, typically by parents but sometimes by tutors, rather than in a public or private school. Although prior to the introduction of compulsory school attendance laws, most childhood education occurred within the family or community, homeschooling in the modern sense is an alternative in developed countries to formal education. Would you rather be taught at home, or would you prefer going to a normal school? I will post my views after a few replies.
2 responses
lynnemg
@lynnemg (4529)
• United States
27 Jun 09
I went to public school growing up and I enjoyed it. I would not have wanted to be home-schooled even if my parents had had the time or ability to do it. I think that home schooling is a good option for some, but definately not all. I have the ability to teach my kids at home, but I would rather them go to public school where they not only get book education, but also a social education.
SK8URDEAD
@SK8URDEAD (9)
• United States
27 Jun 09
While i believe homeschooling has the potential to provide a quality education, i am not certain there are good enough reasons to keep a kid from his peers during the most crucial ages of social development. The lack of social contact among home schooled kids, in my experience, is very harmful. (but not always!) turns them into social misfits. What are the arguments for home schooling anyway? better education? no dice - parents can just supplement a proper public education if they want to. I think more often than not, parents who home school their kids are either afraid to send their kids out in the world, in which case they are not very good parents, or their kids are social misfits already, in which case again, the parents are probably to blame.
geniustiger
@geniustiger (1694)
• Philippines
27 Jun 09
I will prefer normal school to have it formal . It is likely the same but if it is at home I think this is just a preparatory or not particularly the same with normal school. You have to spent more on it because you have to pay for the tutor and then required to take that primary steps in normal school. So its better to have the normal school to be specific at all.