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Home schooling; providing a child's main education program at home. Home schooling takes the place of full-time public education.

The argument over the best methods for teaching has raged for a long time. With each new generation come new arguments and ideas of what is best for our children. This is a complicated subject with valid points to be made by both sides of the education aisle.

Home schooling vs. Public schooling, it sounds like two heavyweight boxing champs squaring off for a big fight and that is exactly what it is. In one corner we have years of teaching experience with the public school teachers and faculty and some of the best resources for our children that money can buy. To the tune of six-thousand dollars on average per-student.

In the other corner we have dedicated parents that have for whatever reason found fault and dissatisfaction with the public school system and are fed up with what they feel to be a catalyzed approach to addressing their concerns about what is going on in the schools. To get a true picture of these two champions of education we must consider all the facts. Take into account the way we are dealing with the future of these children. We can't lose sight of this fact, once we do and the politics of education and money takeover we've reduced the children to nothing more than pawns in a bad divorce.

In fact, dissatisfaction with academic instruction makes up sixteen percent of home schooled students (N. C. Statistics). While others for religious reasons have chosen to avoid the system altogether and teach their children in a setting that supports their beliefs without ridicule. Religious reasons making up thirty percent of home schooled students. (N. C. Statistics, 1.1 Million Home schooled Students in the United States in 2003)
With others cited being concerns about the environment of the schools, thirty one percent. Physical and mental health problems at seven percent. Other reasons at nine percent and special needs children at seven percent. I must note that home schooling is legal in all fifty states, not attempting to educate your children is not. Keeping children home for the sake of having available labor on the farm is illegal without a foundation of education. In some cases, parents under the suspicion of neglect pull their children out of public schools under the falsehood of home schooling. Away from the prying eyes of the school authorities without ever intending to educate their children. Knowing or having suspicions

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