{"id":55,"date":"2022-08-02T15:31:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T15:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fulmoremiddleschool.org\/learning\/?p=55"},"modified":"2022-08-02T15:45:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T15:45:14","slug":"what-do-you-think-about-home-schooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fulmoremiddleschool.org\/learning\/what-do-you-think-about-home-schooling\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you think about home schooling?"},"content":{"rendered":"

tl;dr Given the research, what would you recommend as a societal approach to homeschooling? Should it be legal? Regulated? Would you consider home schooling your own children, if you could? If you were home schooled, what was your experience?<\/p>\n

_____<\/p>\n

I was home schooled all the way until college. I had a formal curriculum for the first half and somewhere in my teenage years my parents transitioned to a more un-schooling approach, so I ended up teaching myself everything.<\/p>\n

It worked out really well for me since I did really well in college and I’ve been successful since then. I’ve always had a really positive attitude towards home schooling because I felt that it prepared me well for college, even though I was frustrated that my parents had such a hands-off approach.<\/p>\n

Looking back on it though, my siblings had a really bad time. None of them have been successful academically like I have. There were four of us, so numerically I don’t think a 1 out of 4 success rate is very good.<\/p>\n

Approaching it from a more quantitative perspective, research seems to show that home schooled students have higher than average test scores: https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/15582159.2017.1395638<\/a>. I’m always worried by these, however, because home schooling parents tend to be 1. wealthier than average and 2. more likely to be involved in their children’s education (not automatic, since un-schooling is a thing). Since socio-economic level and parental involvement are the strongest indicators of children’s academic success, would these children do just as well in a public school?<\/p>\n

Since I never went to school, I don’t know how bad bullying is. But two of my siblings ended up in public school for some time and they were bullied horribly, including by teachers (my sister was verbally abused by a teacher during detention). I would be willing to accept a worse education to avoid what comes down to abuse — and if bullying is as bad nationwide as it appears to be, then it looks like most children are suffering abuse.<\/p>\n

From a societal perspective, abuse can be a problem within home schooled households as well. The more isolated a household is, the more likely family abuse is. Should home schooling be banned or regulated to avoid this in some way? How does the abuse compare to what students experience from teachers and students at school?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

tl;dr Given the research, what would you recommend as a societal approach to homeschooling? Should it be legal? Regulated? Would you consider home schooling your own children, if you could? If you were home schooled, what was your experience? _____ I was home schooled all the way until college. I had a formal curriculum for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulmoremiddleschool.org\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulmoremiddleschool.org\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulmoremiddleschool.org\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulmoremiddleschool.org\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulmoremiddleschool.org\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fulmoremiddleschool.org\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulmoremiddleschool.org\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulmoremiddleschool.org\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulmoremiddleschool.org\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulmoremiddleschool.org\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}