Posted on 04/27/2023 7:31:24 AM PDT by DoodleBob
Homeschooling is a popular alternative to traditional education for parents who want more control over their children’s education. However, it has been debated for many years, with some people looking down on homeschooling parents and students. After a mother asked an online parenting forum for honest reasons, these are what people confessed.
1. Limited Socialization Opportunities
According to several thread contributors, homeschooled children may not have as many opportunities to socialize with their peers. For example, a parent stressed the importance of socialization and pointed out that it’s much more challenging to make friends if children aren’t around other kids during the day.
A second suggested that socializing is essential to a child’s learning and development and that homeschooling may not be the right environment to foster those traits.
2. Lack Of Diversity
Limited exposure to diversity is another reason people look down on homeschooling. Homeschooling parents may not have the resources or the inclination to expose their children to people from different backgrounds and cultures.
An individual sarcastically commented that homeschooling is excellent for parents who want their children to grow up in a bubble without real-world experience.
3. Poor Quality Of Education
The quality of education that homeschooled children receive garnered concern. For example, somebody revealed that many homeschooled children they have met “severely lack” basic science and math skills.
Another noted that homeschooling parents might not have the expertise or resources to teach specific subjects effectively.
4. Lack Of Accountability
Homeschooling is often subject to less oversight than traditional schooling. As a result, concerned parents expressed that homeschooling parents may not be held accountable for the quality of education their children receive. One such person asked, who ensures the kids learn what they need to know?
5. Sheltered Upbringing
Homeschooled children may not be exposed to certain aspects of the world that traditional schooling provides. Several worried that this sheltered upbringing could limit a child’s perspective and leave them unprepared for the real world. One even suggested that homeschooling can create sheltered, naive, and socially awkward individuals.
6. Religious Indoctrination
Often, homeschooling parents choose to teach their children from a religious perspective. While this is a personal choice, several users expressed concern that it can lead to religious indoctrination.
Many in the thread implied that homeschooling could be used to indoctrinate children with religious beliefs that may not be based in reality.
7. Lack Of Extracurricular Activities
Extracurricular activities are essential to education, but homeschooling may not provide the same opportunities as traditional schooling. Many people worry that homeschooled children might miss important activities like sports teams, music programs, and drama clubs.
8. Lack Of Critical Thinking Skills
Have you met someone who lacked critical thinking skills? One believed homeschooling might be great for rote memorization but will not necessarily teach children to think critically. Others agreed, stating that critical thinking is essential for success in many areas of life.
9. Overprotective Parenting
Do you think that homeschooling may be a sign of overprotective parenting? Many do. One alleged that homeschooling is often done by parents who intend to shelter their children from the world as a means of control. Another added that sheltering could limit a child’s ability to grow and develop independently.
10 Lack Of Preparedness For The Real World
Finally, several thread contributors suggested that homeschooled children may be unprepared for the real world. They believe that homeschooled children can struggle to adapt to the demands of college or the workplace.
Others chimed in, stating that traditional schooling provides children with the skills and experiences they need to be successful in the real world.
1. Inability to Control Socialization
2. Lack Of Forced Diversity
3. Inability to Dumb Down Education
4. Lack Of Governmental Meddling
5. Protective and Loving Upbringing
6. Atheism is Blocked
7. The Jocks and Cheerleaders Won't Have Anyone to Bully
8. Blocked from Becoming Malleable
9. Forestalled Annihilation of the Family
10 Lack Of Preparedness to Become a Sheep
Ping of interest
Absolutely.
And to all this I would add that pride may get in the way, for how dare THOSE people do what I don’t do!
Lack of critical thinking = Homeschoolers won’t uncritically ingest LGBTQI
My public school isn't what encouraged me to start learning to program my small home computer when I was 14. Quite the opposite. Even with a lot less woke mess back when I was in school, there was still this push to conform to the system of focusing on classwork and assignments that were pretty much useless. By spending time doing those worthless assignments, I had less time to devote to studying the two main things that forever improved my life: 1) reading the Bible and getting to know God more, and 2) reading books and magazines on how to program my Commodore 64 (I just showed my age). I'm not saying my public school education had zero value. I'm just saying in the two main life changing things I was learning at the time (my new faith in Christ, and the skills I'd one day make a career out of), my high school public education was probably more of a distraction than home schooling would have been.
“4. Lack Of Accountability”
LOL!! Oh my God, they can’t be serious!!!!!!
really. alot of folks on this forum are exactly like that, if they don’t do it, neither should anybody else.
Everybody minding their own beeswax is a good thing.
I’m roughly the same age.
Even when we were kids schools were about babysitting. Pity they weren’t honest about it so kids would realize that they should rely on something besides the curriculum,
I am a bit of a collector. I still have the first Commodore 64 that I purchased... it still works. I have quite a few other computers from the same time period. The challenge is getting the disk drives to work, and after sitting for about 40 years most of the floppies tend to be unreadable even if you are able to get the drives going.
I recall hearing that Daniel Boone thought neighbors being some miles away and no closer was just about perfect.
Your list is more realistic.
A couple of decades ago I was the head of a college school of architecture with about 500 students at all levels. It was my routine to greet the incoming first-year students and to teach the introductory “survey” class. Even then, I could pick out the students who were homeschooled easily. They were the students who were polite, focused on their education, had excellent study skills, and communicated as adults in complete thoughts. By contrast, we had to design remedial programs in that first year for the products public school education just to get them up to e level of competence where we could expect written and verbal lessons to be understood. The homeschooled students needed no such assistance.
You nailed it!
I don’t get the “Limited Socialization”. My 2 home schooled children have several outside group activities every week with many different clubs. In the fair weather seasons there are more than we could possibly attend so we pick and choose what is most interesting to them. They have their BFFs but I am amazed at their ability to meet/make new friends at any club we go to instead of just forming cliques. Also, we don’t have to watch them when with the well behaved home school kids like we do when around public school kids.
It’s clear that Krystal Devall doesn’t approve of school choice. She sounds like someone who believes that children belong to the state.
Of course each of those same things happens in public schools. The claims about "diversity" are ridiculous, many public schools in the United States are overwhelmingly populated by people of one race, or ethnic group, and are not in the least bit "diverse".
It is important to remember that each and every one of these supposed problems were not a problem when the teachers did not want to go to school and teach classes in person. During the pandemic education at home was just fine, and all of the pro government school spokespeople were saying how well education at home was working, and that it was not harming the kids.
I’d put the absence of cliques near the top of reasons to homeschool.
Jews really are evil.
Blacks really are subhuman.
Whites really are racist haters.
How do your respond to complete idiocy other than laughing.
HA!!!
Move along, like a steamroller, slow and steady, crushing its way.
Homeschoolers have a joke:
If institutionally schooled children fail their standardized testing, should they be forced to homeschooled?
And regarding ***accountability*** you are completely correct. They can’t be serious!
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