Public School Versus Homeschooling: Which is Better?
Emerging Trends in Public School and Homeschooling
However, millions of Americans enroll their children in public schools. The main reason is "public schools are free." Parents think their options are limited. Private school's tuition fees are not affordable. Along side with this fact, education is viewed by many Americans from the narrow perspective of "academics". Parents do not feel confident enough to teach their own children. Public schools are the only economic viable solution to educate their children considering the financial hardships of many Americans today.
Education has many facets. Education is also about character formation. If we delegate children's character formation to parents who spends only 3 to 4 hours meaningful hours after school each day, then who is raising your children?
Your children's peers are raising your sons and daughters. Your children's peers in public school are forming the conscience of your children. Your children spend 8 hours of their lives with their peers. It is becoming a common scenario for parents to wonder why their teens have rejected their faith and their family's core moral values.
According to the author Mary Kay Clark, founder of the Seton Home Study, "The United States is currently the 49th among the nations of the world in educational achievement, 39th in literacy. One out of every four students will never reach high school; one out of every four who reaches high school will never graduate. The US Department of Education, estimated in 1993 that between 40 and 44 million adults in the US are functionally illiterate." A federal program, such as the "No Child Left Behind Act" , is a proof that public school has failed the American society.
The current public school agenda conditions our children to accept all kinds of sexual information that have no moral basis. Thus, the current norm of acceptable behaviors among public school students is very skewed. Public school students are known to champion immoral lifestyles and lewd behaviors. Parents just accept this as "normal" behaviors of the new generation.
On the other spectrum, the homeschooled student operates under the framework of a stable family unit. The homeschooler acts like their mother or father. Homeschoolers perceive their parents as their role models. Homeschooling strengthens the family relationship. The family is a social unit of society. Considering the multiplier effect, a new generation of Americans homeschooling their children though still minor, is emerging. This is a new breed of Americans that will hopefully neutralize the ill effects of public school education on our children and the future generation.
Public school is continually failing our nation. Its failures are increasingly exposed. America needs a wake up call. Or have our moral values been too decayed that it has made us deaf?
Sources:
"Catholic Homeschooling, A Handbook of Parents", Mary Kay Clark
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4 Comments
Post a CommentWhile I found your article to be extremely informative, I don't agree with the author that teens have lost faith in their religion, nor do they loose direction in their family core moral values. I was both in the public school system, home schooled, then returned to a public school. In-between those years I had two very good experiences attending religious schools as well. I benefit from my parents, (my mother), who home schooled me. It wasn't based on taking me out because of how sex ed would be taught to me, or about the questionable courses about civil unions and homosexuality as "the norm". It had more to do with the failure rate of academics and teachers who lacked the fundamentals to acting teach and get through to students to help them succeed. I don't think home schooling should ever be outlawed. I think that they need to teach students honestly since we live in a different society nowadays as opposed to several years ago when topics like teen sex and homosexuality were taboo.
Outlawed? Really? Tell that to my homeschooled child on her way to college, on merit scholarships. Most of us homeschool precisely because we want our children to receive a non-politicized education, focused on things like books, not on the cultural-doctrinal flavor du jour.
As an atheist, I must whole-heartedly agree! Just as you don't want your kids hearing that "children are a burden" and crap such as that, neither do I. When I have children, they will be raised by my partner and myself, with minimal obstruction from outside pressures. Spot on!
Just guessing, but after reading the article I wonder if basic grammar is something covered? This, among many other things, help to illustrate why homeschooling should be outlawed. It's time to stop spreading fear of homosexuality and other nonsensical concerns and actually educate kids. The current state of education in America has as much to do with attacks on it from the right (funding, classes, religion, etc) as it does anything else.