Assignment 7-1 Weekly Blog-Home schooling

Home schooling is becoming increasingly popular today. There are advantages and disadvantages of home schooling. Home schooling has been under the microscope due to people who oppose this type of learning. In my opinion, the decision to home school requires not only a commitment of the student, but also the parents. Child development habits must also be considered because they will not experience the same type of socialization that public school children do.
Parents are given a curriculum at the beginning of each school year that outlines the various courses that must be covered over a period of time. Parents are then responsible for adopting teaching mechanisms that will help their child learn. The course curriculum that home schooling organizations offer is far more comprehensive and diverse than classes that are taught in regular school. For example, my sister is in kindergarten and is currently being taught history, simple math, reading comprehension, foreign language, science, art, and music. In comparison to kindergarten children that are taught in public schools are not expected to complete such an intensive curriculum.
Public school does introduce children to socialization as early as preschool. Children are taught social skills through interactions during class, lunch, and recess. The social skills that are acquired throughout public school prepare children handling and responding to adult situations. These situations may be related to work, relationships, friendships, and general communication. Children that are home schooled are not subject to the same socialization as those that are publicly schooled. Home schooled children are not sitting in a “typical” classroom environment. They are more commonly in their house where they complete exercises after a lesson from the parent. This is where the parental responsibility part of the equation comes in. Parents that home school their children need to also ensure that they are involved in extracurricular activities. Various charter schools have regular gatherings which assist in the lacking socialization skills.
While home schooling is becoming increasingly popular, the fundamentals instilled in public school must be preserved. The debates between which education system is better will undoubtedly continue for a long time. People must remember that the true goal of education is to instill a good foundation of knowledge and skills to help children grow into productive members of society. While home schooling has many checks and balances that monitor the progression of children in comparison to publicly schooled children, ultimately the parents are responsible for the education their children receive. This experience may prove to be either positive or negative, which relates to the individual child and their learning skills.