Home Is No Place For School
Dennis L. Evans,
USA Today,
Sept 26, 2003
Brief statement of some of the major objections to home schooling. The major points: first, many parents are not qualified to teach, especially when students reach higher grade levels. And second, students that study at home miss out on the non-academic values of schools, such as socialization and citizenship. The former is at this time a good argument (on Judge Judy the other day I saw a parent who could not even pronounce words properly proudly announce that she was home-schooling her children, notwithstanding the fact that she had not attained the grades she was now purporting to teach). The latter less so, as home-schooled children they also miss out on bullying and peer pressure, among the other less savory aspects of the school system.
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