What is better being homeschooled or public school?

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yeah i'd say public school, homeschooling is in my opinion, parents just trying to keep their kids from all the normal teenage things and overprotecting them. but im sure if it in depth enough the homeschooling would be fine

 

Home is for chilling out and having a break AFTER school. Public school is a place to go to get your education and scholarship.

 

true that

 

I don't think schooling is just about harnessing knowledge. It's about learning to apply it, and even work cooperatively as a team with others. I don't know what homeschooling is like but I certainly have been exposed to more than my fair share of the "tech age" and gleaning information off the internet. It cripples the mind, and a LOT of the information here is misdirected, intensely biased and you may not know how to deal with the nuances especially if it is material you've not encountered before.

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I'm also hesitant to ever say it "depends on the personality of a child" whether or not they be homeschooled or publicschooled. I believe in more nurture than nature. If a child is nurtured well, justly and encouragingly (lots and lots of encouragement and support) even the most timid child can grow into a politician or a great public speaker or leader.

Even though, admittedly, I do not have firsthand experience of homeschooling, there is one thing extremely glaring that I cannot ignore and nor will I choose to guinea-pig my child into experimenting with. That is keeping them at home without the competitive atmosphere and without learning or mastering a competitive edge amongst their peers, developing interpersonal skills and learning to control and discipline themselves amongst a sea of distractions.

Maybe many homeschoolers are exposed to this to a degree? I do not know. What I do know is what I have learned while in public school and the tons of opportunities that were opened up to me while I was there due to the people I was with and the atmosphere of many coming together to learn, goof off, chill out, study, whatever.

I would be afraid, frankly, to take all of the above away from my child, and very haunted or plagued if I somehow was forced to put them in this situation. I'm not attacking homeschoolers. This is my personal opinion on the matter and I would not do it if I had to fight tooth and nail as my right as a parent.

 

I was homeschooled for 4.5 years (about) I started in 3rd grade and halfway through seventh grade, then my parents sent me back to a small charter school a few blocks from our house. Enjoyed homeschooling, but I was getting bored with the fact that there was no more real learning going on only book learning. My dad is an electrician and worked all day, and, at the time, my mom was training to be a birth doula so

I hate public school. It's just sitting in a fucking desk all day.

 

^Time for work. Time for play. And it teaches/enforces discipline and endurance no matter how fucking boring. That's just my opinion.

How was it structured at your home though? I'm curious. I'm working on a thesis right now and it's all practically homeschooling, and have taken distance courses in the past also. All self-motivated so that in itself is perhaps more trying, and requires more discipline.

 

homeschooling is good if u have problems at school. my brother did it and they tried to fuck him over sayin he wasnt doin he work and shit cuz he did it on the computer. we had alot of problems with it. me for the most part i couldnt stand to be homeschooled cuz i have to accosiate with ppl daily lol it sounds funny but i do..

 

I went to school up until the end of year six (starting on to secondry school) School didn't bother me i was bored and tired of waking up so early.

My parents knew that all secondary school is aload of controlling competitive bollox,(basically bigger than primary)
so we starting home schooling
and it doesn't make you social outkast,
I have plenty of friends that Ive met at fesi's or at gigs etc. blah blah
and there all crazy free people that I enjoy being around.

I reckon if i went to 2. school i would be a bitchy chavvy idiot like a majority
of the girls, in school today. And instead of being pressured to have my GCSE'S
by 16 im taking my time until I know what the hell I want to do with myself. So fuck the system, fuck the government, fuck the phsyco teachers.
This is one head there not gonna fuck up!

Just one persons opinion

 

i went to private school for 9 years and i loved it. but if you go to private school go there until your out of high school. because after i got out of private school and went to public for the first time i went crazy... haha.. partying all the time and shit. i have fun. but my parents hate it. it just made the public school experience greater for me because id been locked up for so long... lol

 

It depends on where you live REALLY. Really poor cities have HORRIBLE public schools. Like here in New Orleans, ANY school is better than public school, it is a shame.

 

i think the main lesson public scool teaches you is communicating skills which you can't just learn sittin at home. yea, there are bullyin and stuff like that in public scools but that's a part of your social education.

 

I work with children on a daily basis and see them come from all walks of life. In my experience, homeschooled children are LESS sociable than some of the other children. HOWEVER, I've noticed private schooled children are sometimes LESS sociable than homeschooled children.

The parents are to blame in these situations, however. One instance, a 6 year old is homeschooled and she can't form words at all. She speaks a gibberish that her parents can decipher only in her body language. They talk to her like she's not even there...I don't know HOW their homeschooling works but she's a lot slower than the other children. She seems to only respond to yes or no questions.

Another instance that makes me feel strangely about parents who homeschool their children is a mother that homeschools two of her three children...one child is a boy who does not like to write, so she doesn't make him write AT ALL. I asked her if she wants him to go to college and she replied, "Absolutely." I expressed the importance of writing in college and I don't think she quite got it. Also, her other child that is homeschooled will not leave her mothers side. It's a bit disturbing, actually.

I see children in private schools very sheltered and naive....but then I see children in public schools who are growing up way too fast, IMO.

The guidance of the parent is the most important.

Personally, I was in public school...I didn't mind it...but it didn't prepare me for college, that's for sure. I will probably put my children in public schools (depending on where I'm living), simply because I think it's the lesser of the evils. Of course I will always guide them in not believing everything they read and teach them the "real" ways things are...but for the most part, I think public schools serve their purpose...real learning happens at home anyway...I think it's good to get away from parents and relatives and experience things OUTSIDE of the home...

I know homeschooling parents do this, of course...that's why a lot of hte homeschooled children come to where I work...but I definitely see stunting in their socialization compared to public schooled children.

 

Socially, I'd say public schools the best, followed by private school, and then homeschooling. I go to public school and its great. Sure, every once in a while you'll get some bullying, though its rare and in my school really mild. Besides, life's no picnic either.

Edited on: I do see why in some cases private school would be better than public. I got lucky and happen to live in a really good school district, so with the exception of pre-k and kindergarten, I've been in public school my whole life.

 

i personally think public school is best.

 

ive been to both public and private school, i would have to say i think i recieved a better education at private school. There is no teachers union and i think they seemed to care more about their students. I couldnt think of letting the same agency who cant seem to do anthing right, that being the govt, educate my kids. Thats just my experence,i lived in a crappy public school district.

 

Homeschooling is terrible and is definintly the worst of the three.

Private versus public really depends on where you live and what the schools are like. Some public schools are really good, others are terrible.

 

I have tried both of them. I went to public shool when I was 14 years old. It was a learning experience for me but I survived. I am glad I tried both of them. The public school teach one additional thing: to face the reality out there. However the personalized attention I received when I was doing homeschooling helped me to excel in certain areas such as math. Now, I am a young mother starting to think in my child's education whether to send him to school or home school him. Well, I still have some time to get more informed about it. And yes, if you are trying to switch to homeschooling, research as much as you can.

Good luck

Kim

 

the only thing i know about anything other then public school is that i learned how to read before i started kindergarten and i'm certainly glad that i did.

but other then that, i would say, i mean, wouldn't that have to depend entirely upon the school the parents and the tutors? in otherwords, the variable details that are none of them really all THAT constant within ANY of the option catigorys.

certainly everyone needs somewhat nearly as broad a ciriculum as that of public education, though i aggree with those who perceive its focus and areas of emphasis as being a little off. though not, perhapse with what most of those who do, might think it ought to be.

my feeling is that more attention needs to be paid/given to arts, sciences and tecnologies then was the case when i was in school, which was after all many many years ago. more engineering, ecology and architecture, and less emphasis on athletics, and the propiganda subjects such as economics, politics, nationalistic history of recent centuries, that sort of thing. more classess with shops and labs where you actualy learn how to do things that are fun, gratifying and actualy useful, at least potentialy.

music along with drafting and illustrating make sense as core ciriculum and not merely add ons. where as those other things i've mentioned that i think public ed overemphasisess, those i think are what needs to be more optional.

again though, it's the student's aptitudes, not their parents politics that all education, however it's delivered needs to be oriented toward and focused upon.

education is something that takes place between students and teachers and all most parents and politicians have to contribute to it is to confuse the issue and get in the way. it's the parents and politicians and administrative overhead of staff that needs to butoutski.

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ill say homeschooling..BUT you have to make sure your children have some sort of freedom!!

 

The ONLY way for kids to realize their true nature is to know Mother Nature. Everything essential in life is arises from this sacred relationship. Education in America teaches competition, capitalism and monotheism. these are taught in homes, schools AND churches. There is NO separation between government and religion in America. Monotheism defines a hierarchical bureaucracy and our government is one. Nature is taught as a resource to be owned …to be exploited. Our “I’s” are blind to our natural interdependence.

Any schools without a garden is a curse!