My opinion on home schooling vs school based schooling is that it is the parents choice if they choose to home school. however I do think it is important that the children do have regular socialization in the world even if in a home schooling environment. I also feel that the children who are home schooled should be required to meet some basic academic reqirements as set out by the governing body in the region they reside in. In other words parents who choose to home school their kids should be praised for this undertaking... however ... they do still need to be accountable for teaching their children what their society deems appropriate for the child's age and grade level, afterall, all children, home schooled or public schooled do need to be properly eqipped to live in society. It is the entire sociey we live in who is responsible to make sure all children are properly educated and have all the rights, responsibilities and advantages that school based schooling is based on, whether it is completely successful at this or not, public schooling at least is accountable to someone. Home schooling should be as accountable to certain levels of learning just as school based is.
I also want to say something in regards to the parents on the show today who are raising their children by the do only what you want method of rearing children. Where in society do they think this will apply? if the child goes to university with this thinking it will not apply, if the child plays on a soccer team this will not apply, if the child makes friends this will not apply, as a neighbor this does not apply, as a citizen this does not apply, if everyone does just as they want and only works on their own time frame the society would be in utter caos, our entire world works on the premise of schedules and cooperation. What of laws, do these people understand when they are teaching their children that it is solely their feelings and wishes that matter that also means they can do whatever they like in the real world as well, which could mean breaking laws. ( actually the psychological definition of someone who only thinks of their own feelings and wishes, and lives without consequences is a sociopath )
There will be real consequences in the real world for children, whether parents properly equip them for the consequences or not. These parents are giving their children the biggest dissadvantage they can by not teaching them responsibility and consequences for actions, these parents are making their children totally dependent on them because no in the real world can relate to anyone who cannot fit in with other peoples wishes. These parents need to grow up and accept they are parents here, and they need to learn that rights come with responsibility, if a kid messes up his room it is in fact his responsibility to clean it, and a kid is quite capable of cleaning up after themself and any mother who thinks teaching a child to clean up after themself or lets kid s eat whatever they like whenever they like is not teaching her children a thing about responsibility or the real world and shes only kidding herself if she thinks otherwise.
The reasons parents make their children follow simple rules or guidelines is not because we feel our children are less valuable humans than we are but because we value them more and we want them to succeed in life, we want them to learn to be responsible for themselves and others and to not always need us to do everything for them, we want them to value other relationships and people besides ourselves and we also want them to learn thru their struggles. Unfotrunately this mother and father have opted to raise their children with no accountability whatsoever and to me that is the risk of homeschooling, because in this case, the parents by home schooling have completely segregated their kids from normal human development, and altho they say the kids are in other areas, when the kids cant function in the sports because they dont like the rules or guidelines, it will be ok to these parents to let the kids just quit ,because after all they are the ones who get to decide everything, and they wont ever decide to triumph thru their struggles when they are always encouraged to avoid the struggles in life.
Parents want the best for their children, but what’s the best way to educate them? Dr. Phil’s guests face off in a debate about whether to school, homeschool or unschool. Dana and her husband, Joe, call themselves radical unschoolers. They say education happens as a side effect of life, and they don’t believe in tests, curriculums or grades. Are their three kids learning what they need to know? Then, RaeAnn says public schools are death traps and wants to homeschool her children. Her husband, Steve, says their kids are safer at school than they are at home. Can this couple reach a compromise? Plus, Nicole feels like an outcast at 26. She says she hated being homeschooled, and couldn’t relate to other kids. Share your thoughts here.
