If you home school your kids, why do you do it?

I am against kids being home schooled they don't get and social interactions with other kids. I would definitely send my kids when I have kids to school so they will have more friends

I felt like I had no room responding until I read the comment made by the above poster. I'm a college student, and I've gone to public school all my life. However, the whole time I WISHED I was homeschooled. Begged my Mom to homeschool me, and got a no at least a dozen times. One for every year of torture. I was shy, soft-spoken, and never had many friends at school. I've gotten eons better since graduating, but I always hated the stereotype that homeschoolers were socially inept and didn't have many friends. When I first came to college, there was even a rumor running around that I'd been homeschooled all my life. HA!!!! The most social people I know are homeschoolers. I don't know a single homeschooler I wouldn't call a social butterfly. Granted, I am working from my sample within my corner of the world, but when I say I know a lot of people who were homeschooled, I mean it. The number's way past the dozens. They're all a very smart, sociable, well-adjusted people. I think if I had been homeschooled, I would have turned out a lot more like them.

I home school my youngest child and this is our second year doing so. Why? Well originally it was because the school district we were in was a rough one. She had been in private school her first 2 years of school. When I had to close my business we decided that I would just stay home and do home schooling. It has been a wonderful experience. She gets plenty if socialization with the kids in the neighborhood. The home school kids get together twice a month on field trips fir interaction. The K-12 program is wonderful, curriculum is top notch, the send you nearly everything you need. You also have a teacher assigned to you, if your child is struggling you can schedule one on one time with the teacher. I was never an advocate for hone schooling for many of the reasons above, but after starting I never want my child in a public school again. No where will she get the kind of education she is getting now. We actually discussed public school this year, since we have moved and are in a far better school district, but with all the budget cuts, if my daughter fell behind she wouldn't get one on one help from her teacher. She wouldn't get it in a private school either. We are very pleased with the program. It affords us to be flexible also. If we want to do school from 11 to 4 today an 9 to 3 tomorrow we can. We can schedule small trips and do long as we have access to a computer we can do school wherever were at. We aren't bound to s classroom, or your typical brick and mortar school. We can sit at the picnic table or out on the lawn. I truly think that my child is getting a first class education and it doesn't cost a fortune like the private school did. The k-12 public side i free. Our tax dollars are relocated to them for all her school books and aides that she needs. We buy paper, pencils, crayons and ink everything else is included. She has art and music also. How many elementary schools still have those programs. Also in Ca most schools no longer teach cursive writing, guess what we do. Again with all the books provided.

I fully intend for us to home school any children that we eventually have. My boyfriend and I are on the same page regarding that. There are many reasons why we believe in home schooling. One of the major issues is the fact that we could provide a far better education for our children. We have the pieces of paper to back up that assertion, too. I want for our children to be able to pursue their passions and be involved in the community. The public school schedule is too stifling for the way our family will be. I have to laugh when I come across people ranting about "socialization." Our children will be far from being hermits. Unlike public school students, they will have the opportunity to interact with people of all ages and a variety of backgrounds, rather than simply be locked away in a classroom all day with children of the same age and similar background.

I don't have any children yet, but I am already thinking about home schooling them when I do have them. I am thinking about that because the schools that are near our house aren't very good, and I don't have the money to be able to send them to a private school. I know that people worry about children who are home schooled not making friends, but I would make sure that my children mixed with others and also that they joined clubs and things like that so that they would be able to meet other people who were their age; so they wouldn't miss out on anything.

honestly, I do not agree with the methods of homeschooling. On the other hand, we must teach children about the importance of community socialization, in addition we must also consider the legality of homeschooling method because we do not deny that at the world of work, the school diploma is the evidence formalities of graduation school and the school diploma also be valid as the main thing to apply for jobs at the world of work. A school diploma only be issued by institutions of formal education while, as I know in Indonesia, the institutions that organizing homeschooling methods have not been able to issue a school diplomas to their students.

From a Students Point Of view, Home school is not very social, but it all depends on how you get home schooled. Some Parents teach there kids, some use internet sites. Example Ecot which the main building is in Columbus, They have video class rooms where students and in like a chat room and there is a white board and the teacher will teach off of that. So That is a type of socializing with people in the same class and with your teacher.. but it has its downfalls on not being able to go to dances or extra stuff like yearbook staff or anything you could be apart of you cant really be apart of it when your home schooled. but it all depends on the reason for being home schooled, i was home schooled for personal reasons but if its just cause kids don't want to wake up and actually so then there is no reason to home school them.. hoping this helps. Students Point of View :)