Read this very short article
According to the article posted above, the general displeasure and mistrust towards the American Public School system is driving more students into alternate methods of education- mainly homeschooling.
The article itself makes some good establishing arguments towards the promotion of homeschooling, yet I still have some personal reservation on the matter.
One major problem I have is that parents are not certified and may not have the educational experience to teach some things to their children effectively. Teachers are good for teaching students, and while I understand parent's dislike for the current state of the public school system, I cannot let the value of teachers, who have spent years in college training to do what they do, be completely undermined by it.
Not only that, but the article states that homeschooling is void of the achievement gaps through race, income levels, or gender with no true supporting evidence. However, I feel shaky on this too, especially when it comes to income levels, because a child coming from a low-income family (and also coming from a low-income or poverty stricken area) is most likely to receive poorer educational opportunities than those from high-income areas. And obviously, the child's parents may have been likely subjected to the similar or identical educational experiences and therefore would not be able to provide their child with any better quality education than the schools.
I'm not completely hammering down on the idea of homeschooling and saying that the house is not a classroom; I believe it can have it's positive aspects as well as negative. But the point is, the nature of education is changing and in a drastic way and we need to make ourselves aware of this and educated about it to be better prepared for the future.
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