Home Schooling about to end?

[Detector]

So I hear home schooling is being threatened by the school system. As more and more concerned parents are pulling their children out of the school system, the schools are starting to feel the pinch. Now they want parents of home schooled children to have teaching credentials.

Schools are just not what they used to be thanks in park to our production line education process. Also called No Child Left Behind. Heard'em in, move'm out. Now the school system wants home schooling banned forcing these kids into the production line.

When faced with all the studies showing home schooled kids are on average 2 grades ahead of production line students, their reply was "It's irrelevant." Seeing all those lost funding dollars ever increasing has them upset.

Some links about home schooled children

Home-schooled speller wins slugfest
Home-schooled speller wins slugfest | IndyStar.com

HOME-SCHOOLING SHOULD BE EMULATED, NOT ELIMINATED
ReviewJournal.com - Opinion - FROM OUR READERS: HOME-SCHOOLING SHOULD BE EMULATED, NOT ELIMINATED

[K C Muffin]

I don't think you're far off the mark, D. The people that are crying for elimination of home schooling did not benefit from it, so they don't know what they're talking about. I would never have tried to home-school, simply because I know my limits - I can't put up with the kids 24X7. Some people can and they're very bright individuals. To force those kids into the system isn't doing anybody any good.

[Bandit]

I can kind of see both sides of this argument. The main benefits of home-schooing are the one-on-one attention and the fact they don't have to dumb it down for the kids who don't care. My wife teaches 8th grade here in Wichita, and it is amazing how many kids don't care and how many of those kids' parents don't care. If a kid is home-schooled, you know the parents care about their education. However, a lot of these home-schooled kids are just weird with no social skills whatsoever. I think some are doing a better job now though of getting them more involved in social activities, such as band and athletics for home-schooled kids so that they can interact with other people.

[Gypsy]

There are parents who do an excellent job of home schooling and make arrangements to make sure their children have social experiences with their peers on a regular basis. There are also parents who like the idea of home schooling but do not do the work to make sure it fulfills the needs of their children and consequently because of laziness or lack of knowledge hurt their children's education and social growth. I don't think the baby should be thrown out with the bath water but if home schooling is allowed it must also be actively monitored. Personally, I believe in public education primarily because children grow into adults and will eventually have to have the skills and judgment to deal with all the diferent kinds of people that make up our society and I would like to be part of that learning experience for my children.

[pootsy]

I see both sides as well. Home school children sometimes are way over the edge in thier social skills or way below. They either are way too wild or way too unsocialable. Sometimes this can be bad because they do not know how people can be in the real world. I also think that kids ought to be around other kids besides their own family. I do not think that the government needs to ban home schooling though. I think the Government has done enough of taking our rights away slowly but surely. The Government needs to slow down.

[Detector]

if home schooling is allowed it must also be actively monitored.

It is. Probably a lot close than the progress of kids in school is monitored.

Most parents that choose to home school are tied of their kids being held back for the sake of No Kid Left Behind, and kids who slow the class because they don't speak English well.

[Made in the USA]

I wish they would have had "Home Schooling" back in my younger days. Man, what an excuse to skip school-------just never let either side know which school you are going to!

[wordsmythe]

Most of the homeschoolers I know wanted theri children to have a good Christian schooling.

Of course that brings a completely different angle to the teacher - student sex scandles.

[Army_of_One]

I feel one of the problems with home schooling is that there are so many different programs out there. Some of them are credible and some of them aren't.

Some people don't choose to put their kids in the horrific public school system for the RIGHT reasons...then there are those that have a kid that got in trouble or whatever so they pull their kid out to do their homeschooling and imo probably hurt the kid.

I think homeschooling is a good thing. As a recruiter the HS kid I've dealt with are way ahead both socially and mentally of the kids coming out of the public school system

The schools want your money because every head counts. Obviously they don't care about how educated your child turns out as long as they get their dollar. The gov't schools dumb kids down so they will stay dumb. Our school systems are BROKEN from beginning to end. The unions have a lot to do with this.

[wordsmythe]

Unfortunatley, the dumb kids and the problem kids aren't going to be home schooled because their parents just want them out of the house.

In most cases the parents are the problem more than the kids.