home schooling..good or bad?

Question

home schooling..good or bad?

Answer 1

I'm sure there will be others who agree, but I'm not one of them. Homeschoolers are not shielded from the real world; they actually have a lot more contact with the real world because they're not in school all day. Most homeschoolers do very well academically speaking so I think your theory about the standard of education dropping is a little flawed, and social skills are only poor in the rare case that a family basically stays home all the time and doesn't socialize. I and most of the homeschoolers I know had a lot of social experience, much of it that we would have missed out on if we had had to go to school.

Answer 2

You are making a very illogical assumption that from *one* family on *one* REALITY show (which isn't - it's totally twisted by the networK) that "all children are shielded from the real world....."



You need to spend time researching this issue, and at the very least, read some Q&A's from this Y!A category.



I have a good friend who was invited to be on Wife Swap. You know what they wanted her to do before the cameras showed up? NOT clean her house for TWO weeks. Hmm, doesn't sound like reality to me. For some reason they wanted to spin it that HS moms (and SAHM's) are lazy and messy and HS'ed kids live in messy, cluttered, dirty homes. After the interview at their home, the family opted not to participate even though they really could have used the money. They were not willing to give HS'ing (and their family) a bad name for the sake of ratings.



I've been the subject of media stories a LOT (actually my DD) and there is *always* a spin!!!!



Okay, I've said this over and over here. My son is NOT sheltered. He has MORE time in the community than any of his B&M (brick & mortar) peers. How much real world can you get than being out at doctor appointments discussing anatomy with the RN or doctor, or at a physical therapy appointment discussing why the PT is doing something, or talking with the museum docent at length, or actually going to the art museum to appreciate the art and discuss it, rather than just have a "yeah, no school" field trip like the PS kids? What more real world do you want than volunteering for many organizations???



My son's standard of education is excellent because he is free to go at his own pace, which currently in math is 5 grades ahead. His social skills are off the charts and he consistently is complimented everywhere we go. Adults know there is something *different* about his behavior - in a great, respectful way. He is not in a box with 25 other kids his own age (so artificial and not "real world") told all sorts of rules (walk two tiles from the wall down the hall), only allowed to speak to other kids at the 20 minute recess, etc.



So, no, I absolutely do NOT agree with you!



I agree with another poster - if you're trying to make a point for public education and cannot spell or use basic punctuation, then perhaps you should re-think posting. You're a prime example of a public school student that didn't learn the basics that my son learned in 1st-3rd grade!

Answer 3

In some cases yes, but if you create a community it could be very good. Sheltering children to a certain point is a good thing, as long as they realize that the world isn't all peaches and cream. I've thought about homeschooling when my children are ready to start the first few years. I'd want them in public school afterwards, but those first few years are so important to get them off on the right foot. I would want a class of about ten students tough so I'd have to get some friends or other people in on it.

Public schools can turn your kids in to really bad students, I've seen it happen.

Answer 4

It can't be much worse than public school. So many kids hate public school, so I don't think home-scholars miss much. Do an internet search for I hate school or even Yahoo Answers search and you'll see what I'm talking about. Also, if a kid has no friends at school maybe they're not really getting the socialization they need at school anyways.

Answer 5

I don't agree. I think that the parents should help their children to get along and interact with others by perhaps involving them in extra-activities such as a tennis or art club etc. Home schooled children do not necessarily have to become completely shut off from the world. In fact, as parents, we are our children's primary teachers and i cannot imagine who better to learn from than your own parent. It also helps parents who wish for their children to have some sort of religious education, as this is not allowed in many schools around the world in this day and age. Your children get individual attention, unlike in a school where a teacher has to focus her attention on 25+ students.

The standard of education of a homeschooled child certainly does not drop. Many homeschoolers graduate before their peers. Venus and Serena Williams, Dakota Fanning, Evan Rachel Wood were all homeschooled. Several US presidents, US Chief Justices of the Supreme Court, Artists and Composers were homeschooled, all who require social skills and a degree of intelligence.

Answer 6

I absolutely disagree.



Fact:

Home schooling has proved itself to be a high quality alternative to conventional education.

I know many home school families who would break the mold of this stereo typical belief about home schooled children, and young adults.



Many, (most) home schooled children are either in college; some as young as 14 -16; the military, work, or upon graduation work in the family business, or own their own businesses.

They are active, productive members of their communities.



TV shows, really?

Take a good look at these type of shows!, they are solely for entertainment, they will show two complete opposites, not to mention over the hill extremes.

I could not take anything that I would see on these shows serious.



Many home school moms, and dads have repeatedly tried to provide factual information on the educational, and socialization myth attributed to homeschooling, including the "real world" argument.

The real world is what our children are part of 24/7, they are learning to participate in daily life, naturally.

They volunteer, are active in churches, work, take college classes, are members of clubs, play sports, and so on.



Fact:

Socialization is the ability to get a long, work with, and talk to; meaning, holding an intelligent conversation; with people of all walks of life, and age groups, not just your peers.



I think most people who are against home schooling do not fully understand it, do not, or are not willing to educate themselves on the subject before passing judgment, or debating it.

They feel uncomfortable about it because it is different from the "main stream" , or maybe some feel threatened because it shows you do not need a college, or teaching degree to make the education of your children a success.

Answer 7

We actually home school our son, 15, since we've done this his work has improved dramatically, less pressure for us all, no more phone calls from the school, and he enjoys getting up at about 9.00, has breakfast and starts work @ 10.00-12.00, then lunch and starts again @ 1.00- 3.00 but we are also flexible in this depends how he is. Home ed is all about helping our child be a resposible, well rounded young person. He plays in the local football club and is very bright , holds good converstion and is a thinker..most times!

Education is important, but lets not leave everything to the schools, we've more input into his education now and we spend more time together.

Answer 8

Were they chained to the bed or something? That's abuse!



I have been OUT and ABOUT since I was 9 years old and had a bicycle.



I never KNEW a college library existed until I got into college



I never KNEW anyone can walk into a PUBLIC college or University libary until I was in college



I never knew a COLLEGE library had hours 7 am to 11 pm 7 days a week until I went to college



Does that mean my high school years were sheltered!



I never knew there was a reference other than the Encylopedia until I got out of High School



My mother, who put me into public and private and religious schools and NEVER homeschooled me, took me to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago and Adler Planetaerium.



Do you go nowhere.



Do you have NO LIFE



I feel sorry for you



You've NEVER been to a McDonald's restaraunt.



You've never been to Chuckie Cheese



You've NEVER been to the MALL



God, maybe YOU should be put back into school!



If YOU don't know where the ART MUSEUM IS, if YOU don't know where the ZOO is, THEN YOU have had a sheltered life!



You telling me your kids have NEVER been to the MOVIES!



Gosh,darn!



They've NEVER been inside a K MART or WALMART or TARGET



Gees!



They've NEVER been to the park and swung on swings!



My gosh!

Answer 9

I have been on Yahoo Answers for about a week now and have read many posted questions, and answers, about home schooling.. pro and con.



And one of the things I have been amazed about is the opponents of homeschooling, those that think children need to go to public school because they will have 'a social life and better education' and the amount of grammatical and punctuation errors in many of their posts and answers (other than those that obviously write what they say wrong) and the amount of correctness in the writing of the proponents of and the children that are home schooled.



I am not saying this to attack anyone, the way someone wants to write is their own business, but I am highly offended that anyone would write like this and then tell me my children need to go to public school.



If one wants to argue FOR public school that isn't the way to do it.

Answer 10

I hope you don't base a lot of your opinions on something you see on TV. Hollywood is going to take extreme cases of anything because it sells. If I would agree to be on the show as a home schooling family, they would want us to be "weird" or they wouldn't take us. They would never put on the show what home schooling really looks like in the majority of cases.

I don't know of any families in our group that totally "shelter" a child from the real world. What we do though is bring them up to be able to face the challenges with good moral judgment. I have been through those hard conversations with both my girls; they know what’s out there. The difference is, they aren’t left to there own devices to figure it out, or worse yet, turning to a peer group consisting of a bunch of kids their own age who don’t have a clue. They are close with their siblings and parents and not "peer dependent" and rebellious.

As far as education goes, in the cases I know of, most of the kids in our group dual enroll at a local college and end up graduating high school with an AA degree. Not to shabby I believe!

If you have any other questions, please email. Turn off the TV and do real research. Look up articles on socialization and Home schooling. Larry Shyers did a wonderful study and actually was against home schooling until he researched it, now he is an advocate.

Answer 11

Please, please, please do NOT use Wife Swap as something to judge homeschoolers on. Would you use the public school parents as a means for judging all public school parents?????????



My children are NOT shielded from the real world. Nor are the many homeschooled children, ranging from birth to having graduated, I've met over the years. They are, for the most part, not naive and not spoiled. The standard of education is NOT bound to drop--if that were the case, homeschoolers would not be doing so well on SAT's and would not be graduating at 16 as many do. Their social skills are NOT poor because we actually interact with each other and other people. (Would you lock your child up at home if you homeschooled and never allow him to talk to anybody? Come on!)



I'm a former school teacher. I did not want my children in school because of the poor quality of social skills (I'd like my children to learn from people who have decent social skills, not from kids who are as immature as they are) and because of the rigid academics which often cause children's education to drop (a child who is behind will not have the education he deserves because the teacher MUST move on; the child who is ahead has their education suffer because they are not being challenged).



Homeschooling can be good when done well. Wife Swap picks the most outrageous families. Please do NOT judge us by something you've seen on TV.

Answer 12

It can be a little of both actually. Children need to interact with others. It builds social skills that help them the rest of their lives. I am actually in favor of home schooling but believe that if you do home school your children-you need specific days/outings during the week where they can interact with others. This could be field trips to museums, factories, etc. They just need to have interaction.



I have had friends that were home schooled and got accepted to the best universities in the country. Harvard and Yale look for kids that have been home schooled. Matter of fact, I think there was an article about it last year.

Answer 13

Wife swap shows the most extreme examples of homeschooling. I mean, they are trying to make money by getting their ratings up.

Of course, there are going to be a few bad examples of homeschooling (those are the ones that are publicized). There are more bad examples in the public school system.

And actually, Columbia University conducted a study that showed that homeschoolers scored higher on college entrance exams than other students.

Homeschoolers get plenty of socialization. There are groups for homeschoolers that provide field trips, dances, extracurriculars, etc.

Most are not spoiled or naive. And most of us are not shielded from the real world.

If you are going to bash something, do some research on it.

Answer 14

Wow! Did you form your whole opinion of homeschooling by what you saw on (skewed) reality television? WOW! Why didn't I think of that? (I shouldn't be so sarcastic, but questions like this just get to me) That said, homeschooling is just fine. The standard of education is higher than in regular school because the children can get one on one care and attention. The parents (in the majority of cases) have more education than is required of a teacher. And in MOST cases the children are part of numerous social groups that regular school kids don't even have time for. So, before you begin to think that reality TV is real life (it's sooooo not), do some research and learn some true facts. I don't know a SINGLE sheltered homeschooled child. And I know many homeschooled children, including my own. And as for that "cyber" guy that answered, yeah. School is something one never forgets. I have never forgotten getting beat down at least 3 times in middle school. And I have never forgotten that a teacher wouldn't let me go to the restroom, causing me to pee in my pants and forever being known as "peepee girl" because of it. Yeah, you never forget that kind of stuff....

Answer 15

Why and how would the standard of education drop? Also how would they get spoilt?



In school you do not get one to one attention and also the gifted children are not always challenged due to reasons like class sizes, resources etc. If you are ahead you normally have to get bored and wait for the others to catch up.



My kids are home schooled and in Maths, Science and English they are ahead of their friends & older cousins.

They also do other subjects as they would in school including languages.



They go to classes outside for swimming, martial arts, football, piano and chess club where they meet and play with other children.



FACT: more and more teachers in the UK are home schooling their children.



FACT: Home schooled children are better behaved and well mannered.

Answer 16

well ive been home schooled since christmas and i dont agree with what your saying , i mean i have a social life as i have a really big family and have lots of cousins that i go shopping with etc. plus from when i did go to school i have friends from there and go cinema , shopping etc.And yeh the education drops a little bit but at the school i went to we didnt do home echonomics , cooking and some more things and now i learn these at home along with science , english , maths and all the rest!! it just depends on the family.

Answer 17

So, you are on here telling us that you use "wife swap" as your guide to truth in the world?

You seriously need a reality check, pumpkin.

I would question people if they said they absolutely believed everything they heard on the national news.

But wife swap????? OMGosh!

If public schools (and parents) can't put any more discernment in children than that, I will continue homeschooling, thank you very much.

What's the next question going to be?

"I was watching King of the Hill the other day, and I saw...."

It's too pathetic to be lol.

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Answer 19

I have worked in the public schools. The standards of education have dropped and that is only one of the reasons we decided to home school.

The other reason was that we wanted our son to be a part of the real world. He now can interact with people of different age groups, social groups, and in different environments rather than the semi-protected class room.

It is working for us and statistics show that it is working for many people. Do some research. You will be amazed at what you can learn. (smile)

Answer 20

I definitely have to disagree with you.



I was homeschooled for 6 years while growing up, I have to say, I preferred homeschooled, and actually believe I got a BETTER education. I had plenty of friends, socialization was never a problem... I had plenty of hobbies, learned so much... had friend who were in public schools and who were homeschooled. When I went into public school at the age of 15, I was ahead of my "graduating class" but 2 grade levels. I graduated at 16 with a 4.0 gpa. :)



There are pros and cons to both... and I don't believe that parents should homeschool if they don't have the patience for it, if they are incapable of helping their children learn (or unable to learn right along with their children!), and if they are going to "shelter" their children from the world too much. Homeschooling usually enables parents to be closer to their children, gives them a broader education, and they are better able to mold their children into the type of citizens/individuals they should become...



At the same time, public school education can be sub-standard, schools can be dangerous, and children can learn bad habits and wrong information from their peers and teachers in public school.



The list goes on....

However, that is every family's personal choice... and there is not "right" or "wrong" answer for any family... That is an extremely personal choice, and it isn't fair to "generalize" based on one instance.



There are definitely homeschooling families who "shelter" or "isolate" their children too much, there are those who can't provide their children with even an adequate education...

But, on the flip side, there are families whose children are in public school, whose children can't even spell or do basic addition and subtraction, parents who are far too "permissive" with their children, and who are teaching them no morals or common values.



So, there is no, "one size fits all" answer here...

Answer 21

personally home schooling depends on parents and how they can improve their child for example a working parent is more suited to a school whereas a non working mother could simply study and do the routines of her housework!

Answer 22

i think it is good to go to school. people learn from experiences, good or bad. in schools you learn so much better, i find it easier to learn if i am with other people. also a parent cant expect to give the same level of knowledge as teachers. also secondary school teachers have their own subject that they are qualified to teach.

Answer 23

home schooling is good for people like me sensitive and quiet for spoilt brats that like attention probally not

i would love to be home taught and be away from all the people at school that make you sad and stressed out!

Answer 24

You are forming your opinion on what you saw on Wife Swap? Oh Puuhleeze!



Why don't you actaully research it for yourself, find out all the pros and cons and make an educated decision for your self.

Answer 25

A higher percentage of home schooled children earn national merit scholarships than their public school counterparts.



Home schooled students tend to score higher on college entrance exams.



Social activity / real world.

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This year, my home schooled son (8th grade) visited 5 college campuses (two Ivy League - one of which was by invitation), Washington D. C., several Civil War battle grounds including Gettysburg, several life and science museums, one world class art museum and carried on an intelligent discussion with the docent (look it up), has already taken the ACT and has scored well enough to be accepted to most state colleges, has opportunities for skating parties, laser tag, field trips to newspapers, factories, radio and television stations - the list of social opportunities is incredibly long. The problem is not finding social activities it is choosing among so many.



My son can hold his own in philisophical discussions / debates with most adults.



Can anyone say polynomial?

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In public school, right before we started homeschooling, my son was having trouble with math (Algebra 2 in the 8th grade). After a couple of weeks of homeschooling I discovered that up until then he had always been able to get the right answer in his head but had never been taught how to actually obtain the right answer. The problems were getting to the point that knowing the method was necessary. I had to spend weeks re-teaching him how to correctly and methodically do math. What is worse, in public school they were getting ready to wean the students off of their own brains and moving on to $150 calculators. If he had remained in public school he would never have learned how to do math.



Expectations?

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In public school he was in the gifted program and his gifted-ed teacher bragged at the end of the year that the gifted students had learned ten new vocabulary words. Wow! This last year with homeschooling my son has studied Greek and Latin roots and has learned 3 or more new SAT vocabulary words every day.



He spends about an hour every day studying for the PSAT and SAT.



He took a sample 8th grade end-of-year standardized test a few weeks ago and afterwards asked if the material was really 8th grade. He could not believe how easy it was.



Real world again

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My son has created and maintains a commercial (yes he earns money) website for fun. His site includes a bookstore, candy store and toy store.



He creates 3D computer animations for fun.



He creates 3D computer video games for fun.



He writes for fun. In fact, he is working on a book - a real book to be published.



He is considering starting and funding a scholarship for underpriveledged kids and he has the interest of one of the aforementioned Ivy League schools.



Now, many of you might call my son a geek. Go right ahead. That would put him in good company in terms of people who are successful and make a difference in their profession, community and the world.



My son learns about the real world from the real world and not from television.



Someone from public school: provide a comparable list for 1 year of school.



I'll add some more stuff just to be safe in case someone takes me up on the above challenge.



Completed 9th grade physical science textbook (cover to cover)

Entered (but did not win) and inventors contest.

Completed 3 algebra textbooks / workbooks (algebra I, algebra II and geometry)

Wrote more than a dozen short stories (with correct grammar)

Wrote a couple of poems

Has submitted a non-fiction piece for publication to a scholarly foundation (we are waiting to hear about acceptance of the article)

Created comparison charts of the world's major religions, major governments and types of intellectual property.

Has read more than a dozen above-grade-level books AND has kept a correctly formated bibliography for each book he read.

Has started preparing for American History and English CLEP exams.

Created more than 300 flash cards for himself in all the core subjects plus others.

He has visited his state representative.

He has met his U. S. Representative and Congressman.

He has led the Pledge of Allegiance (by invitation) at political rallies.



We have clear and doable plans for completing high school concurrently with a 2 year college degree.



I could go on but I imagine I'm pretty safe at this point.

Answer 26

No i am homeschooled and i am socil and have tons of freinds who go to public school.

Answer 27

I'm home-schooled and I personally don't like it. I'm a social butterfly and I'm alone all day! It sucks!

Answer 28

I agree with you. My niece home schools her 4 kids and I think they need more interaction with other kids.

Answer 29

I think it's very important to be socialized in a formal school setting. I do know people who homeschool their daughter - and she's very shielded from what goes on in everyday America. SOME home school settings work for some families... but I think the vast majority should stick to the real world!

Answer 30

no i strongly oppose children being home-schooled



it's not rite. school is the first place where children go out and see the world

learn new things. meet new people. make new friends

they learn about the world . they learn abt colours.

they learn to talk properly



by home schooling we are depriving the children of all the fun, knowledge, exposure, friends which he would get and has the right to get



schooling is that part of a human's life which he or she never forgets



so we must ensure that every child gets educated in a school



cheers

Answer 31

i don't think it should be allowed. children need to learn how to react to other people. Experience different relationships, make friends and realise that everyone is different. Also they need time away from their parents, i think i would feel suffocated by them. Plus your right the standard of education would drop, what parent is skilled in every subject their lying to themselves if they think they are.

Answer 32

well i think u shouldgo on and off, like 1 semester homeschool and 1 semester norm, that way yr kid will grow up just fine, and a tip if ur kid is getting bullied, step in but be anonymous or else the bulliing is just gonna get worse...

Answer 33

Home schooling should be done as a social (community) experience. The HS group I am connected with has many community events every month. Everything from visits to the capital, to skating.



These facts speak for themselves.



Home schooled students are 13 times more likely to volunteer at a political campaign.

Home schoolers consistantly rank in the top 1/3 of college enterance exams.



Homegrown success

By Robert Stacy McCain

Published October 23, 2003

Washington Post



Home-schoolers are more likely to attend college

and be more politically active

than their peers, a study says. The survey of more

than 7,300 adults who were

home-schooled found that among those ages 18 to 24, 74

percent had taken college

courses, compared with 46 percent in the same age

group among the general

population. About 12 percent of the polled

home-schoolers had received bachelor's

degrees, compared with about 8 percent of their peers.

The study, by the Oregon-based National Home

Education Research Institute

(NHERI), showed higher levels of political involvement

for home-schoolers in several

categories. The poll shows home-schoolers are more

likely than their peers to vote

(74 percent versus 29 percent), to make political

contributions (9 percent versus 3

percent) or to work for a political cause, party or

candidate (13 percent versus 1

percent).

Some of the findings were not surprising, given

earlier studies showing high

levels of academic achievement by home-schooled

students, said Tom Washburne,

director of the Virginia-based National Center for

Home Education.

"We expected to find that they were getting good

jobs, going on to college at a

high rate, that they were involved in their

communities - all of those come as no

surprise to a home-schooling parent," Mr. Washburne

said.

"However, we are excited by the findings about the

civic involvement of the

graduates. Their voting and their involvement with

campaigns and political parties

is astounding compared with the general public."

The idea for the study "had been percolating in my

mind for at least a decade,"

said NHERI President Brian D. Ray. A proposal for the

study was turned down 10 years

ago, he said. But noting the growth in home education,

he said, "Now we have a much

larger population [of home-schooling alumni] from

which to draw, [so] maybe it was

good to wait."

NHERI estimates that more than 1.7 million U.S.

children are home-schooled.

The new study "is one of the few attempts, maybe

the only attempt, to get at the

question of what do home-schoolers look like after the

home-schooling process," said

James Carper, professor of educational psychology at

the University of South

Carolina, who reviewed Mr. Ray's findings. "On most

measures, they look better than

the general public."

Home schooling has been criticized by the

country's largest teachers union, the

National Education Association (NEA), which passed a

resolution at its national

convention declaring that "home-schooling programs

cannot provide the student with a

comprehensive education experience."

An NEA spokesman yesterday said the organization

had no comment on the NHERI

study.

Mr. Ray said critics "have claimed that adults who

are home-schooled would be

social isolates, disengaged from civic life and

perhaps uncaring about the world

around them. The findings of this study, however,

indicate just the opposite in

terms of these adults' behaviors."

Among the study's findings:

.About half (49 percent) of home-schoolers ages 18

to 24 were full-time

students. In that age group, 50.2 percent had "some

college but no degree," compared

with 34 percent of the same age group in the general

population. In that group, 8.7

percent of home-schoolers had two-year associate

degrees (compared with 4.1 percent

in the general population) and 11.8 percent had

bachelor's degrees (compared with

7.6 percent in the general population).

.Among various measures of community activity,

home-educated adults were more

likely than their peers to have read a book in the

past six months (98.5 percent

compared with 69 percent), participated in community

service such as volunteering or

coaching youth sports teams (71.1 percent compared

with 37 percent), and attended

religious services at least once a month (93.3 percent

compared with 41 percent).

.Asked whether they agreed with the statement that

"politics and government are

too complicated to understand," 4.2 percent of

home-schooled adults agreed, compared

with 35 percent of the general population.

.In six measures of civic involvement,

home-schooled adults consistently ranked

higher than the general U.S. population.

.Home-schoolers also ranked higher on measures of

personal satisfaction and

psychological health, reporting more contentment on

the job and with their families'

financial situations. Asked about happiness, 58.9

percent of home-schoolers reported

they were "very happy," compared with 27.6 percent of

the general public.

.Home-schoolers differed significantly in their

responses to the question: "Some

people say that people get ahead by their own hard

work; others say lucky breaks or

help from people are more important. Which do you

think is most important?" More

than 85 percent of home-schoolers said "hard work,"

compared with 68 percent of the

general population.

.About 74 percent of the home-schooled adults with

children said they were home

schooling their own children.

The thousands of home-schooled adults who

participated in the survey were found

through "a highly connected network of home-schooling

organizations," Mr. Ray said.

Their responses were compared with data for the

general U.S. population from the

Census Bureau, the Department of Education and the

National Opinion Research Center.

The study did not compare incomes of adults who

had been home-schooled with the

general population, Mr. Ray said, because of a

shortage of age-based income data

plus the fact that the average age of the

home-schooling alumni in the survey was 21

and nearly half were full-time students.

"If we can come back to a substantial portion of

this sample in five to 10

years, we'll get a much better idea of comparative

data regarding occupation, income

and completed level of education," he said.

The study rebuts one of the most persistent

criticisms of home schooling, Mr.

Washburne said.

"Home-schooling parents have known for years that

home schooling works," he

said. "What we always knew to be a myth regarding

socialization has turned out to be

just that, a myth. Home-schoolers appear to be active,

engaged, happy adults."

Answer 34

there is nuthing rong with home skooling



i have bin home skooled and i njoy it





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