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.
Re: Cliques
They are really prison protection gangs only in a school setting.
Gee! How does government schooling resemble prisons? Hm?....Let me count the ways.
I am in the same boat. I have the hardware, some of it still working but the magnetic media deteriorates to an unusable state after about 20 years in most cases.
I do have emulators for PC and android but it is not obviously the same. I am planning on putting together or purchasing one of the Commodore pi1541 floppy disk drive emulators and downloading some software from archive.org one of these days. I have a grandson who is interested.
Re: segregation in the government schools
You are completely correct!
Government schooling is the ****MOST***segregated institution in America. Nothing come close! And....It is fully government funded!
If a taxpayer refuses to support this government imposed segregation, they face police, court, and even prison threats. If they are resistant enough the government will **kill** them.
Please see my tag line.
Regarding curriculum:
When I was a child I had completely read all of my textbooks by the end of the second week. If I was caught reading a library book by hiding it under my desk, the nun would have an emotional and abusive meltdown directed at me. Sometimes it was physical.
THE KEY THING that home schooling does is to teach kids to be autodidactic. Which is what you do in real life in an adult job.
Conventional schools stymie and prevent this, boring kids with hour after hour of numbingly stupid indoctrination.
The homeschoolers are the pacemakers now. The conventional schools are getting their tails waxed by the kids coming out of home schooling.
And the professors etc., generally like and are impressed by the homeschooled kids.
This would be funny if it weren’t so insulting.
Each one of those 10 reasons sounds to me like somebody’s indicting the public school system not homeschooling. I’m not going to shoot down each one of them individually. It’s actually too easy.
Here’s a little thought as regards to where these criticisms originated. I would not be at the least surprised to find wackadoodle public school “teachers” trolling homeschool forums pretending to be normal parents so they can shovel this bovine excretion.
“like a good neighbor, stay over there”
I don’t have time to refute the tired old lies.
Of our homeschooled kids, one is an astronautical engineer. Guess that kills the lack of math and science.
One is a book editor
One is a nanny. The parents are hardcore liberals and they love my daughter. She also has several side gigs.
One is a trucker. Can’t get much more independent than being on the road six nights a week.
My homeschooled now adult children are a Sr. Cloud Engineer with a Fortune 500 company and a medical doctor. No lack of STEM here, either.
I would add that any public schools that teach critical thinking skills would be anathema for their woke crap.
I learned and honed my critical thinking skills here at FreeRepublic! Woot Woot Woot!!!
Most school parents have a bias against homeschoolers. It’s no different from any other kind of bias. They see what they want to see.
The irony is, all those reasons listed against homeschooling are what happens in schools.
The funniest criticisms are these: “Limited Socialization Opportunities” and “Lack of Diversity” and “Lack of Extracurricular Activities.”
LOL. Schoolkids sit in classes with the same group of kids for 12 years. THAT is “limited socialization” and “lack of diversity.”
While the schoolkids are locked up in school, homeschoolers are out doing fun things together. They can schedule their homework around sports, clubs, band, co-ops, field trips, youth groups, etc. The homeschool community is well-organized with plenty to do. They get together with schoolkids, too.
Nun shall pass....
Love it!
How can kids know which of 1,836 genders they are, without guidance from a leftist school system?
Bttt.
5.56mm
“Daniel Boone thought neighbors being some miles away and no closer was just about perfect.”
Pa Ingalls had the same mindset.
Some time ago I heard a sitcom mom describe her home as where people living in the boonies thought of as the sticks ... I thought that sounded nice.
That’s great.
Your list is great!
That pretty much says it.
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