A Look At The Pros And Cons Of Home Schooling
Are you trying to decide if home schooling is right for you? Consider these pros and cons of home schooling to help you make your decision.
Pros And Cons Of Home Schooling: The Pros
What are the positive things about home schooling? There are so many, you could read about them for hours. But here are just a few:
Nurturing Home Environment
What can be better than having your child spend his learning time at home, in an environment that you as a parent have complete control over? Public school teachers try their best, but your children simply can't get the supervision in public schools that they get at home. Virtually every public school has its bullies. If there are bullies in the home school, they are usually the student's brothers or sisters, and you can stop the bullying before it even starts.
Children Learn Better In The Safety Of Their Homes
This is a sensitive subject to bring up, and no disrespect is meant to the families who have lost children because of violence in schools. But let's face it, there has never been a home school shooting yet, and chances are good there never will be one. Public school shootings, on the other hand, continue to happen in spite of all the safety measures.
We have to include the issue of safety when we discuss the pros and con of home schooling. With all the violence and dissonance in the world today, there are lots of weird characters out there, and some of them could end up in your child's public school.
Parents Control The Curriculum
In every discussion of the pros and cons of home schooling, this is the number one reason why parents home school their children. Parents - especially Christian parents - believe the secular public school curriculum teaches too much theoretical instruction about evolution, not enough instruction about sexual morality, and too much of a secular viewpoint about history and social studies.
Parents who home school their children integrate traditional subjects, like math and reading, with a version of other subjects - science, social studies, and history - that fits into the religious and moral beliefs of the family. Home school parents get to teach reading from The Bible.
Pros And Con Of Home Schooling: The Cons
Critics of home schooling say that home school children are not properly socialized. However, home schooling always involves schooling outside the home, where children interact with people of all different ages and diversities, as opposed to just interacting with children their own age.
