Homeschool or public school?
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1.     The first task of public education in a capitalistic society is to teach students to “respect authority.” This is done by placing a teacher or school bureaucrat in the role of the students’ parent or guardian, the authoritarian figure they are familiar with at home. Authority is imposed through a system of punishment for those who do not do what they are told and rewards for conformity. Strict adherence to stupid and trivial rules like always walking on the right side of the hallway teaches us to obey no matter how stupid the order is. We are taught that people should be able to tell us what to do. We are thereby prepared for the world of bosses, cops, politicians, and military officers ordering us around and treating us like we are stupid and inferior.   \n\n2.     The second task of public education in a capitalist society is to rob us of our individuality so that we will submit to what we are told to do and not pursue our own ideas, desires or talents. It does this by placing us in an environment with thousands of people our own age and using authority figures to label anyone who does not go along as worthy of scorn. This is the basis of what we know of as “peer pressure” which is essentially a system for teaching innocent children to value mediocrity and obedience and encourage them to harass anyone who doesn’t obey. Any deviation from society’s norm is immediately condemned, individuality becomes deviance. This makes us used to doing what everyone else does and blindly “going with the flow” for fear of stepping out of line and being persecuted. This forms the basis for the system of social control in the workplace where people submit to exploitation rather than being labeled a ‘troublemaker” and are encouraged to betray their fellow workers to the boss even if they work at a minimum wage job and can’t possibly benefit.  \n\n3.     The third task of public education in a capitalist society is regimentation. The Capitalist System looks at people as nothing more than a piece of meat: A resource whose whole purpose is to make money for them, buy their products and die in their wars. Modern industrial society is organized into work shifts which can run 24-hours per day making money for the rich. Industrial society is based on three ideas created by Fredrick Taylor, Henry Ford and Max Weber. Taylor had the idea of reducing the workers motions to that of a machine so that capitalists could maximize their profit in any given time period. Ford is credited with the assembly line so that all the workers would limit their robotic motion into a single meaningless task. Weber helped construct the modern bureaucracy in Nazi Germany to control large numbers of people with a militaristic organization. His ideas were adopted by capitalists around the world after World War II. For thousands of people to be able to work in this kind of work environment, they must be conditioned from a young age to live “by the clock.” Even in the service industry or other areas of work outside the factory these same principals of organization apply to varying degrees. The public school system conditions students to conform their desires to a strict schedule by imposing punishments for those who don’t show up at school on time, go to class on time or complete assigned tasks on time. This prepares us for a life in the factory or office where “time is money.” To maximize the degree to which students can be exploited when they enter the work force, they must be conditioned to be nervous or guilty about not showing up on time and subject to the time schedule created by those in authority.  \n\n4.     The fourth task of public education under capitalism is to discourage dissent. This begins with the system by which our performance in school is evaluated. We are repeatedly graded based on our ability to repeat facts, figures and phrases regardless of where we understand their meaning. Rote memorization robs us of our ability
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I find it very doubtful that half the children in the US are home-schooled.  Home-schooling is fine with me, as long as there are dedicated parents involved, and the children have plenty of socialization opportunities.  A big thing that you learn in school is how to interact with other people.
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I took American School. Its in illinois and is through the mail. But its a top notch school and they know what their doing. I worked at my own pase and im 16 and in college. Also, With being able to work at your own pase, you can keep your social life. Dont listen to what people say about homeschool. Most people have never given it a try and just jump to conclusions about it. Good luck finding a school to go through with!
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I like public schools because there is just alot more you can learn not just from teachers, but your peers. It teaches you life skills you may not learn otherwise at home. Public schools are like mini variations of what the real world is like. There is not only alot of pluses to public schools, there are alot of minuses as well... but so is everything else in life!
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As a public school teacher, I would actually recommend home-schooling your children if at all possible. I send my daughter to a private Christian school. Some people think it's too expensive to send their kids to Christian school, but I tell you it doesn't cost any more than daycare. Most of you probably send your kids to daycare, don't you? Also, you can't put a price on a good Christian education.  They have smaller teacher:student ratios, they focus on academics, they learn good morals, they are allowed to worship as they please (in accordance with the 1st Amendment), they score higher than the national average on tests, and they help to create productive members of society. They are not crime-and-drug ridden like so many public schools. \nA public school would be the last place I'd send my child if I could help it.\nIf, however, I did have to send here there, I would be on those teachers, principal and school board like white on rice. I would give them notes saying that they are not to teach my children evolution or any sex education (especially presented by Planned Parenthood!) or any "diversity" training (which is really just pro-gay propaganda). I will NOT have my child brainwashed by the public school system. You should be aware that the creation of a free, public school system was one of the tenets of Karl Marx's Humanist Manifesto, which was implemented by Teddy Roosevelt in this country. In fact, most of the tenets of that Manifesto were accomplished in this country in the first half of the 20th century. We have slowly become a socialist nation.\nBefore that time, children were either home-schooled or private-schooled - and some of the best, most intelligent people our country has ever produced were educated thusly.
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Yes. I attend public school, and kids can get away with murder there. (Not literally.. I hope).\n\nPrivate school is much better. More education, less of a class size, and usually stricter rules. Plus, I believe there is more parent / teacher conversation.
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Yes, your kids would be better off in public schools. Don't indoctrinate them before they have a chance to learn to think for themselves.\n\nChildren taught  in public schools have  better test scores anyway.
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Private schools are not always better than public schools.  Research both school and compare/contrast the pros and cons of attending that school.  Do what would benefit YOU the most.  Family and friends might not be there for you 20 years down the line... Education will...
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The number one advantage of public schools is SOCIALIZATION!  If you do research under that category, I guarantee that you will find many reasons to prove why home schooling isn't such a great idea.
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i hate public schooling home schoolings better
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I have taught in both here in Texas and if I had a child I would personally send them to a private school. I was in a "top" public school in the suburbs and now teach at a nationally-ranked inner city private school. However, it depends on your state. Unfortunately, Texas has so much red tape in the way that students are blocked from learning while in private school there is none. You have the support of parents, the community, and the students and you are able to challenge their thinking without having to worry about law suits, inclusion, etc. Private school cuts through the BS and gets to the learning business. All our kids have books, have the support they need, and all have the opportunity to succeed because no one is lost in the shuffle of public schools. \n\nAlso, the credibility of the private school is important. There are some pretty cruddy schools out there who lack accreditation and any type of credibility. In that case you're probably better off at a public school.
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There are good and bad points to both. I personally think home schooling is better for children until their decision making skills are matured. This would ensure that they would not be easily influences by other children who were not exposed to the same values that they were. Some other negative things about  going to school would be the child's safety in the schools, overcrowded schools, shortage of teachers and then the inadequate teachers just to name a few.\n\nBeing home schooled the parents have the option to teach them the topics that they choose (within the curriculum guidelines) The negative thing about home schooling would be lack of peer interaction, the chance to develop pubic speaking skills and exposure to more than one teacher.
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My husband and I made the choice to homeschool before we even got married. Then, when we found out our first child had autism, it just cemented our decision. Here's the reasons why we chose to homeschool.\n 1. Saw my sister successfully homeschool her kids, even caught a learning disability in her first that the school had not caught, which is typical.\n 2. All the families in our church except one homeschool, their kids are WONDERFUL, smart, funny, mature, silly, normal kids. \n 3. Too much school violence, we didn't want to have to worry about our kids making it home from school. His nephew was kidnapped on his way home from school, 15 yrs ago, they never found him.\n 4. We are Christian, there's no room for Christianity in school anymore, and we wanted ours to be the influence most of the day, not a Godless school.\n 5. We don't agree with certain things that are being taught in schools that have no place being taught in schools. Moral issues that should be taught by mom and dad, at home.\n 6. Public and private schools don't allow the student to work independently, to be behind of they don't get something, or ahead if they get it faster than the other students. That's why so many kids fail. Homeschool allows the child to be at different levels in different subjects, depending on their ability.\n 7. Too much emphasis on passing tests, working on a school schedule, instead of emphasis being on retaining what they are learning. It's only common sense that if you pick a topic, read about it, maybe watch a video on it, go on a field trip to where you're studying about, take your time learning about it, you're going to retain it better then being introduced to something on Monday, being tested on it on Friday, and never seeing it again until finals, which by then you've forgotten it. \n 8. Yes, school is a good place to socialize. Unfortunately, for most students these days, that's all they think school is for. Emphasis from the students is on things it shouldn't be on at their age, such as dating, having sex, NEGATIVE peer pressure, drugs, etc. etc. Most kids in schools these days don't care about being there to learn. We don't want that kind of socialization until our kids are mature enough to know right from wrong. I don't want my kid when he's in 1st grade asking me some explicit question about something someone from school told him about. I want to decide when he's ready to learn about life, not some kid. Our kid's socialization will come from kids at church, people they see when we go on field trips or to the store, neighbor kids that we approve of, and sports or band, if they chose that, reading groups at the library, things like that. A more positive environment.\n 9. Finally, our decision to homeschool was based on wanting our kids to grow up believing in family first, nurturing values that have died in the past few generations. I know from when I went to school, your priorities shift from family first to friends first, and that's not right. That's why, we believe, there's so much disrespect for authority, for our elders, and we want to go back to the basics and teach that. That's just not realistic, for most kids, when mom and dad only see them for 3-4 hours a day after school before they go to bed. A person is going to be influenced by those that he spends the most time with.
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I would probably write a book about education. I'd interview highly rated teachers (not Yale or such, teachers from K-12) and observe teaching methods, students' being taught, and what catches the students' attention. I would probably write one specifically for parents who homeschool, to let them know how to prepare for schooling and what works best in catching their attention while getting them to learn.
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I choose to homeschool for many reasons, but mostly to fit my children's education, tailor it to their learning style. Some kids don't learn BEST by sitting in a chair and fillout out dittos, or reading pages and pages of material.  When my kids don't 'get' a subject, we go about it a new way.  Videos from the library, brainpop.com, workbooks, manipulatives, visit a museum or similar, talk to someone who works in the field we are following.  It's great.\n\nWhile I think public school has it's serious problems, not all but some, it is good for some.  It's not for everyone.  The crime, the rules, the taking God out, the bullying, the hours themselves...a bummer to say the least.  But I homeschool because I can teach my kids better than local schools can.
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I went to public school and was generally happy there. If you live within a district of a good school system, I'd say go with that. If you live in a more questionable area but can afford a private school, go ahead.\n\nHome schooling, I feel, puts children at a disadvantage because they lose much of the interaction with others that they receive at an actual school. It also puts a new burden on you and possibly limits the child's education to what you can teach him/her.
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There's nothing necessarily wrong with homeschooling. I know a lot of homeschool programs are designed such that a few kids from different families get together and learn together, although the interaction between peers tends to be much higher in a formal school setting.\nThe biggest disadvatange in homeschooling is that most parents really are not qualified to teach the most up to date information and have not been trained to the same degree as certified teachers. You're more likely to get a biased education because you don't have as many different opinions and styles as those who are taught by many different teachers throughout their educational careers. The educational rigor tends to be lower, but that is not always the case.\nThe greatest advantages are that you get much more individualized attention, can learn at your own pace, and if you have religious needs that are not served by public institutions, then learning in the home is a viable alternative (especially if there are no private religious schools in the area that cater to your beliefs or if they are too expensive)