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I hate to deprive kids out of their rights as individuals. I am against home schooling even though it creates a good and clean environment for the kids.
posted by
Chuck_E_Ibrahim
on May 15, 2015 at 9:51 AM
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Home's the word love.
posted by
BC-A
on May 15, 2015 at 8:54 AM
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I can't recall anyone in my family being home schooled. I would definitely think the
disadvantage of it would be the lack of social skills developed. But it seems a lot of
parents are homeschooling today to avoid the problems that are plaguing the school
systems such as, shootings, bullying, bad influences....
posted by
Vermont01
on May 15, 2015 at 7:26 AM
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Brilliant post. Kind, correct and to the point.
The only socialization I got, the most useful training for getting along with others, came at school. I learned there about the wickedness of gossip, the need to form alliances, and that my mother wasn't so bad after all.
posted by
Pat_B
on May 15, 2015 at 4:06 AM
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One trouble with home schooling
is that kids don't get as much exposure to other adults and ideas, than their own parents' and consequently get the embedded sense that home holds all truth.
posted by
Ciel
on May 15, 2015 at 2:15 AM
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Re: Annicita
I can picture you being a very good teacher. 
posted by
TAPS.
on May 14, 2015 at 5:30 PM
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3 of mine were homeschooled at least for a few years...the oldest and youngest were in the navy and the middle one opened his own business...maybe because they weren't home schooled for their entire education
posted by
Annicita
on May 14, 2015 at 5:22 PM
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No one to my knowledge has been homeschooled in my family...I can see the benefits and the disadvantages...As for me, I would send my kids to school due to social reasons.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on May 14, 2015 at 4:51 PM
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TAPS
I think there's an upside and a downside. The upside: If the parent are well educated and know their stuff (and that's a big 'if'), the child will learn more. The downside: All the many intangibles the child learns in interacting with his/her peers in the course of spending years in school with others are falling by the wayside! At best, you end up with a kid who knows more but has poor social skills; if the parents don't know what they're doing, you end up with a kid who knows little and has poor social skills. I am for having the kid go to school, but with heavy parental involvement! 
posted by
Nautikos
on May 14, 2015 at 3:11 PM
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your damned if you do and damned if you don't! for and against. No one was ever home schooled in my family...well one male cousin at times because he was a sickly kid. My eldest I have often felt may have been helped with home schooling if I hadn't been his Mum...(Lack of patience) he was bullied at school yet he is the highest achiever as an adult and the highest earner and a terrific family man...so who knows.
posted by
Kabu
on May 14, 2015 at 2:55 PM
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