Advantages of Home Schooling.
Home schooling allows the student greater educational and personal advantages over public school students. If you have noticed, parents have developed home schooling to have a more personal, one-to-one relationship with their children. Parents are more involved in their children's education, supervising their classes, adding a religious component to their schooling, and changing their class schedules when needed. Many parents prefer to educate their children in a more informal, comfortable place that they can create and believe their children receive a better education from home schooling. Where else can children receive a more personalized, family oriented, loving educational experience than at home?
Home school parents have a large number of different curriculum sources they can turn to for their schoolwork needs. There are three main types of educational curriculums: traditional textbook/workbook, unit studies, and classical education; each has advantages and disadvantages depending on what the parents are looking for.
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Young female students at Samangan School in Afghan...Steve Moitozo (2003) suggests that families with strong religious and philosophical convictions can include these convictions into their curriculums. Opponents to home schooling raise the point of unorganized curriculums that they believe in use by those who home school. "Schools generally have carefully planned courses of study that carefully avoid teaching things over and over again. If dinosaurs are studied in first grade, then they won't be taught again in second grade, long division won't be introduced before simple division, and so on" (Richman, 1988, p.181). Public schools have spent years and countless dollars finding the best of the best curriculums for the students in their areas and have lesson plans organized around these curriculums for the most efficient learning experience. However, the best of the best curriculum, even if it is organized for maximum learning, will not help a student who is struggling in a...