Essays on Public Schooling

[Due Date] Homeschooling parents are at times seen as isolated, self-centered, and reclusive. They keep their children away from the markedly valuable commonplace school, the environment where children acquire the essential knowledge and experiences that equip them with the required skills to successfully deal with civic and societal demands. Levin and Belfield (2003) report findings that “private schools produce more community service, civic skills, civic confidence, political knowledge, and political tolerance than public schools” (Ladd & Goertz, 2014, 222). However, it is incorrect to portray homeschooling as dispossession or removal of schools of their valuable purposes. It is widely known ...

LITERATURE REVIEW

Advantages of Home Schooling The first advantage of homeschooling that emerges from literature is the need for family members to bond. According to Arai (2014), keeping children at home rather than at school helps parents to have a close-knit family. Many parents regard homeschooling as an opportunity for them to learn more about their children and for the children to learn more about them. Arai (2014) notes that parents whose children have undergone homeschooling would make comments such as “we’re much stronger as a family now” or “homeschooling has brought all of us together as a family” (Arai, ...

Society is changing quickly and the usual patterns of learning are changing too. During the last decades the classroom has greatly evolved allowing more freedom of choice, introducing technological advances into the learning process and adopting more student-oriented strategies of learning. Along with modern classrooms and the creation of digital learning environment, homeschooling has also grown to more popular. Now it presents a strong alternative to public school education, and while its regulation is still under question, a lot of people have already experienced the benefits of this way of schooling. Nevertheless, generally homeschooling is not perceived positively in ...