Home Schooling

[Kilroy_x]

Originally Posted by Equs

But if your child plans on higher education, they really should be attending a public school, simply for the sake of the academic experience. I still have horrible professors even at university, so I don't think you're ever going to get an all around perfect experience. Doing it all at home is great if you're dedicated to learning...but let's face it, most people arn't. Most people don't learn much at all when being homeschooled and are not prepared for higher education.

Let me fix a couple things for you.

Originally Posted by Equs

But if your child plans on higher education, they really should be attending a public school, simply for the sake of learning to work the system by playing to factors within this particular type of social system in a beneficial way. I still have horrible professors even at university, so I don't think you're ever going to get an all around perfect experience. Doing it all at home is great if you're dedicated to learning...but let's face it, most people arn't. Most people don't learn much at all anywhere and are not prepared for higher education.

At least at the public school you know what people are being fed. At home children can be taught any type on nonsense and become very closed from the world. Of course this isn't going to happen in the case of a good parent but not all parents are competent either.

So what you're saying is you'd rather have everyone be wrong in exactly the same way than have difference in understanding at any point? As silly as that is, I sadly have to inform you that education is not anywhere near as standardized as you seem to think. Outside of standardized testing and a handful of other things, there are virtually no federal guidelines for curriculum. Sure, some states, districts, etc. impose their own standards, but this is rare and it's also hardly unifying.

Attending a good public school can really make a difference, I think. However, due to the severely imbalanced public education system this can often be quite difficult to achieve.

I honestly don't think you could find any real difference.