The case against homeschooling 13 Articles

by Jan Castagnaro

The case against home schooling Home schooling, when chosen for the right reasons and implemented in a correct way, can be an effective means of educating children. However, not everyone choosing to home school their ch...read more

by Ruth Woodhouse

There are many parents who are passionate about home-schooling. I am sure it has merits for some families - and that there are individual circumstances where it's overwhelmingly the best option, if not the only way to dea...read more

by Ruth Speirs

Volumes could be written to address misleading articles that have been published against the homeschool movement. Making many families, like my own, sound more like zealots interested only in religious isolationism. ...read more

by Deborah Markus

The good news about the arguments against homeschooling is that they're usually based on ignorance. Ignorance is one of the world's most curable afflictions. All it takes is a little information. Argument #1: Homesc...read more

by Laura Crolius

The case against homeschooling is a weak one. The majority of people who argue against homeschooling make stereotypical statements with no first hand experience with alternative schooling. I have heard people say that ...read more

by Laurel Santiago

If you are homeschooling because you want to control every aspect of your childrens' moral, religious, and social lives, then homeschooling is not for you. If you are using a religious curriculum because you don't want yo...read more

by Toni Doswell

Homeschooling is great! I do feel that homeschooling should be done at certain ages, however, and under certain circumstances. For instance, if parents feel they are capable of being a home school teacher or coach, the...read more

by Allison Claridge

Unfortunately, there are parents and students in every type of education that ruin the benefits for the majority that are practicing. I homeschooled my children for 10 years and they are now in the public school systems...read more

by Jen Thorpe

There are many problems that children who were home schooled face, that children who went to public or private schools avoid. We all know that there are problems with both public and private schools as well, and I am not ...read more

by T.C Leonard

In my opinion, home schooling is a very bad idea. Students spend approximately 1400 hours a year in the classroom, and in many ways school mimics the real world; one has to work in order to succeed, and unless a person ...read more

by Lesley Fuller

Imagine you are a parent. You have a child of school age who is not doing well in a regular public school. Maybe he is having trouble with the other kids; maybe he is not getting along with the teacher; maybe you have se...read more

by Andrea Chapin

Not all public schools are great, or even good. And not all of us can afford private schools, so homeschooling seems like the best answer. I'm terrified when my daughter goes to school, with how many kids get abducted your...read more

by Alice True

Why do parents think that home schooling is the answer to protecting their children? I hear parents say that they don't want to expose their children to the violence and poor behavior of the public schools. Or their chil...read more