Which is better: Being Homeschooled or Regular School?
Answer:
regular school
I believe regular school helps prepare children for the real world.
If not for anything else I believe regular is better cause it teaches kids how to interact with others and learn valuable social lessons which you can't learn in home school.
Regular, it helps social skills along with education and getting out of the house.
I think it depends. Some people have the kind of personality where they're less social but really excel when they work by themselves. Others need to be in that social environment in order to focus. I've been in public school and I've been homeschooled and personally, I think that public school gives you more life experience. If you're homeschooled, you're kind of just pushed into the world and have to learn to deal with everything once you start college or your job.
Regular school, homeschooling has many problems attached to it...
Yea, like emmy said, regular school prepares you for the world. Homeschooling is kind of like an easier way to graduating. Less stress, no being judged or making as much choices on your own, but it's better if you just want the faster way to education.
Education wise, I think both are equal to eachother, it just really depends on how you're being taught.
For example, you could be homeschooled, but distracted by TV and games, and end up not learning as much, but the same thing can happen in regular school, you can get bored, or you can feel stressful enough to be distracted.
I've done both, and in my opinion, I prefer regular school; it prepares you for the world more. You get to make more choices on your own and develop your personality more.
Regular school
emmy is right !
I personally think homwschooled is fine it helps kids be more intelligent and probably will learn more because all the attention is just for them. But kids will be missing all the FUN that kids have at school with all the friends and shows and even the classes are fun .. I would not homeschooled my kids I don't want for them to miss all the things that happend since they are in elementary through high school ! I think they can learn the same and be intelligent by helping them with homework !! Like I said again this is just my personal opinion!
Home school of coures! I was home schooled when I was a kid and I was smarter got done with school earlier I think home school hope it help!
regular! school is not for learning in class, it is primarily for learning how to interract with your peers! you cant do that stuck at home alone.
id definitely have to say regular school, b/c it gives children the chance to interact w/ other kids and learn more about the outside world around them.
i definitely think regular schooling is the best choice for kids mainly because it teaches them to socialize with other kids and also because when kids are home schooled, they don't have as much friends ans kids who are in public or private schools.
Well this is my opinion. I'm sure it will offend some people but that is not my intentions. We have done the public, home school, and private. We were in public school for 4 years home school for 1 year and private for 2 years. We are at a christian private school at this time and they love it. It all boiled down to my children's safety.Homeschooling was fine for a year but soon missed being with their peers. " Children are products of their enviroments" and most of the public schools today are not the type of enviroment i felt was suitable for my child or anyone elses child. I'm not saying all public schools are this way. Do a little research on the public schools in your area. Check the average I.Q for your childs grade level. Trust me thats the level she will be taught on. Location is also a big factor concerning SAFETY. Hope this helps. Homeschooling takes a lot and I mean a lot if discipline.
Home schooled kids are much better behaved in public. and home schooled kids do much better in college. i am in dual enrolment at the community college 2 years early. and some homeschooled kids go to college before they are 16. have you heard of the movie eragon? it was written by a kid who finshed highschool at 15 and was homeschooled. i also want to point out that i had more freinds when i was homeschooled than i do now that i am going to the community college. i am very social, more so than most public school kids i know. i can go into any room and talk to people my grandparents age just as easly as i can talk to people my age. i know many public schooled kids who would never even think about talking to some one more than 2 years older than they are. i have no problems at all.
another thing. i was rarly at home when i was home schooled. i was often seen at museums, or out learning about this, that, and any thing. if you are in a home school group that works together like i was then you get to go on feild trips, meet pilots of air crafts and realy talk to them (not like when you go with a class and he has to speak to every one, i meen talk to them and get to know them) of to become very close freinds with the founder of a museum (small town museum, but still...). i have had more life expirence than my freinds in public school, my test scores are much higher, and i have better social skills. people who say that home schooling keeps you locked up from the real world, they dont know what they are talking about. home schooling rocks!
home schooling is kinda better because you learn more because in public school they make u hurry to learn and edspected you to remember as for home schooling u can take your time and if u get a F u can keep doing it till u get a a+
It really depends on your own goals. Homeschooling takes tons of effort on the parent's part. People say that publicly schooled kids are more social, which may be but they forget that there are meetings and events for homeschooled children. I am publicly schooled and love it, but it depends on your opinion.
The home schooled kids I know are very bright, well behaved, and socialized. Mind you, it's more of an effort on the part of the parent(s) to make sure their child is socialized, but what is more "real world"? Getting your child into the community to volunteer with people of all ages or subjecting them to the cruelty of their peers, who were all born within a year of your child?
There are up-sides to both.
If you are home-schooled you:
Get to spend more time with your parents and vice versa You are not exposed to some of the bad things in the world (this could be a bad thing... it depends on how you look at it.)
If you go to regular school:
You make more friends
Have more opportunities to be social
You will be prepared for the "real world"
I think regular school. It is more real-world, and has many more resources that you will never have at home--including people who are certified to teach what they are teaching, along with science labs, gym equipment, proper music and art instruction, textbooks (more than one on the same subject), and much more.
i think regular school is good for a child.it help them be able to socailize with other kids and learn how the world works.they need to learn how to handle situation that homeschooled children rarely see.
Personally I think Regular public school is better. I know someone who was homeschooled for awhile and then went to regular school. I think like Emmy says it really does prepare you for the real world. Maybe kids are smarter or more well-behaved but really if you homeschool a kid its like ripping them of there childhood. I just don't believe in homeschooling. I can't see myself being schooled by my mother or father it would just be a nightmare.
I also would like to say it is just your personal preferance some people think homeschool works better and that is really great for them and I praise them. This is just my view on this and I know there are deffinitly many other views on this subject. I hope no one who is homeschooled takes offense in any way to my answer.
Look..Home-school, regular, private....It TOTALLY depends on the child, the parent, and the community! Where I live homeschooling is very big so the community has programs that do field trips and classroom labs and so forth for these kids. They socialize, they go to school labs, and experience ALOT kids in reg. or priv, don't. Private is also good if your child has certain personality traits of needing a small classroom with individual attention but you don't want to home-school. Reg is great for socializing your child but it is also good and bad...these teachers have so many kids they get lost in the shuffle so to speak.....You can not make a decision with out ALL the facts. They are all great, it depends on the individual
I have hs'ed for 9 years now, so of course I am very biased, but I will share why we hs...
First I will say that hsing is not for everyone. Many people have not taught their kids the basics of proper behavior, and thus are unable to homeschool them. If you have not taught your 2 yo to come when he is called, then I can tell you that you will not be able to teach him to read when he is 5 - he will not listen to you. Some people are too disorganized to homeschool, and many many many are not willing to make the sacrifices of time and money needed to homeschool properly.
1. We homeschool because we are able to provide an exceptional education. When my kids finished grades 6 and 7 they took the Iowa test and tested at 12.3 and 12.9. My husband and I are both geniuses and I have not found a school that could equal what we are able to do at home with the kids.
2. We homeschool because of socialization. If you have taught your kids to obey and be respectful and kind, and they are thrown together day after day with kids who talk in ways we don't, watch trash on tv, are not truly concerned with learning, have no work ethic, are mean and vindictive - is this going to add anything positive to their lives? For years now when a ps kid has invited mine to a b-day party we have gone. At every single party we have attended for a ps kid, there have been TWO other kids besides mine and the bday kid, and this was for kids who had invited their entire classes. When my kids made bday party lists [when they were younger and we did those kinds of things] it was so hard for them to narrow their list down to 16 kids, and all the kids came. Many kids who go to school only have a few friends, and do not interact much with those who are not their ages.
3. We homeschool because we have decided that our kids are worth it. We enjoy being with them and sharing their lives in this way.
4. We hs because we can do so many educational extras - field trips, service activities, MANY extra subjects, and going more in-depth into subjects than they'd do in school.
5. We do not worry about our kids being affected by school shootings or teachers who molest.
6. We hs because we know so many kids in junior high in ps who read on what we'd consider a 2nd grade level, and so many kids in grades 4 or 5 that don't read enough for us to tell what level they are on, and so many teens at work that can't count out money. Would my kids benefit from being in classrooms with these kids? Doubtful. Are these kids being prepared for real life? Maybe if they plan to work in fastfood restaurants.
Well...I could go on and on...it's a lot of work but we have a very happy family. I will say that I also know hs'ers who are not doing much educationally and who are not attending to their kids' social needs, but there are many more who are very involved in every aspect of seeing that their children are prepared for adulthood.
I would go with regular kids can play together and it will help your child develop better social skills.
regular school is better because kids will know how to to challenge the real world and its a good chance to meet new people
I think if a parent is willing to work hard teaching their children, develop a routine which works for them and the child, and exercise self-discipline in teaching their child, home schooling is a possibility. I personally feel, however, that many of the lessons learned in regular school (like sharing, taking turns, self-discipline) and many of the "extras" are not taught as well at home. My children are public school students, and we wouldn't have it any other way!
Homeschool is best if the parent knows how to discipline and is willing to take the time to prepare and spend the extra money. It's best if you want your kids to be smarter, better behaved, able to interact with people of all ages.
Public school is best if the child is extremely gifted in a sport, as it is hard for homeschoolers to get sports scholorships. It's kind of sad that sports is the only reason to send your kids to public school! Public schoolers are falling far behind academically. Public schooled kids generally socialize with people their own age, race, and gender.
There is a lot of research out there that contains FACTS about public and homeschool differences.
Regular school.
Everyone has something good to say, but I have something else to add.
I remember when I was in grade school. A kid who had finished 1st grade was held back. Why? His mom thought he didn't learn enough that year. He lost all of his friends and everyone was making fun of him. He was then home schooled for several years, then came back from middle school. He was still 1 year behind, and still lacking social contact.
Regular schooling is better, kids need social contact, and homeschooling will cause kids to spend WAY too much time with parents (Yes, it is possible!) or WAY too much time with a strange tutor.
I believe that a regular school is better for the child. In a regular school the child faces people that are mean. Children need to know how to handle the real world where people can say anything.
Short Answer: It depends on the child. - It depends on the parent.
Long Answer:
Our two children have done both - gone to public school and have been homeschooled.
The older (a girl) was a natural "public-school" oriented student - loved bookwork, tests, grading and everything organized. She excelled in public school,(grades 1-5 & 9) and in homeschool. We moved a number of times in her school life and homeschool was definitely easier during those years. She completed highschool with a homeschool correspondence course at 16, entered college, graduated and is now working with the deaf at 22 years old. She's happy with who she is... (and isn't that what we want for our kids?)
Our second child (a boy) attended public school for grades pre-K, Kindergarten, and grade 1. We homeschooled beginning grade 2. He didn't read proficiently until he was 12 years old (yup, you read that right... twelve) We tried every reading method, and I continued reading to him (out loud) until then. Had he been in public school he would have been labelled... " " or " ". I read many homeschool books and anecdotal stories about how some boys just aren't ready physically to read until later than girls. Regardless, I was worried. Four months before his 12th birthday, it was as though a switch was turned in his brain - he went from struggling with phonics and single sentence page books, to reading chapter books, and onto four-inch thick science fiction/fantasy books. Later, he chose to go to grade 9 public school and excelled - received numerous academic awards (including English!). After grade 9, I would have been content if he wanted to continue in public school. He had fun, made friends, etc. But he wanted to return to homeschooling. He finished highschool at home, has begun his first term at college. He has an average of 4.0... Who knows where he would be if he'd stayed in public grade school and been labelled and demoralized by a system that requires all children to progress academically at a regimented rate?
So. As a parent, I devoted my time and energy the last 10+ years to teaching my children. It's a sacrifice I woud do again. Gladly. Both children are becoming capable adults with great social skills, who can make friends and excell in their chosen fields.
Which is better? Homeschool or Regular School? It depends.
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