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Originally Posted by cockerpunk  my point is that homeschool first off, doesn't teach your kids jack as far as values. |
Values come from all sorts of places. If one goes to a public school, then yes, one would probably adopt some values from that environment. Is that good or bad? I don’t know. I don’t think being home schooled means children are sitting at home being preached to by mom and dad all day long (although I do believe that most of us get most of our values and morals from the people we live with). Being home schooled in today’s society isn’t like living in an Amish commune, isolated from the rest of society.
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Originally Posted by cockerpunk second, lowers the quality of your students education. |
Do you have statistics on this? Most of the people I’ve met have come across at being better educated (or maybe just more intelligent, although that would be a weird coincidence). There’s merit in striving to do more research on your own instead of copying from the kid in the desk beside you.
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Originally Posted by cockerpunk public school doesn't teach your kid values, |
See above. Values come from many places, including your experiences in whatever school system you are in.
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Originally Posted by cockerpunk and finally, homeschooling leaves your children totally unprepared for the world outside of there childhood support structure. |
Home schooled kids don’t have friends? Don’t play sports? I’ve met many home schooled adults that are quite well rounded and quite prepared for the “real” world (which they have been living in since birth).
I am not against the public education system. My current litter of kids are both enrolled in public education as were my two sons, now grown. I do believe though that for my sons, and also for myself (I went through the public school system as well), the public school system actually hurt their education. The school system seems to be set at a pace designed for slightly handicapped kids, meaning that those at or above normal intelligence are held back. Both my sons and myself were bored in school. It is very frustrating to sit through 2 or 3 days of a math concept that one grasped in a matter of a few minutes for example. I think many people will relate to the fact that school was boring. I went from being a straight “A” student up to grade 7 to graduating high school with “B’s” and “C’s” and only the occasional “A” because I was trained to be lazy. My sons were both similar. That is not a good value to learn, anywhere.
I didn’t know much about home schooling when my kids were young, but I really like the idea of letting kids go at their own pace and finding the resources to complete their projects on their own (with guidance from parents or available instructors if needed). That way they can be rewarded for working hard with free time to learn more about the rest of the world while their public school counterparts are listening to their teacher ramble on over and over again concepts that are of little interest or already learned.