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right now what to do
you don't have the cash to send your
child to private school where most kids
seem to do very well in terms of
academic performance and benefit from
the sometimes lucrative relationships
made there then again the local public
school in your neighborhood doesn't feel
up to snuff the class sizes are too big
and it doesn't have a great reputation
so who's to say your child will benefit
from your own knowledge that you
secretly consider to be superior to the
average teachers but you worried not
giving their child the opportunity to
socialize with other kids might take
away an important part of growing up is
home school worth it that's what we'll
find out in this episode of the
infographic show traditional school vs.
home school first of all let's take a
look at some statistics according to the
National home Education Research
Institute and indeed any source you look
at on the subject home schooling at
least in the USA is becoming more and
more popular in the USA alone there were
2.3 million home educated students in
2015 which was up from 2 million in 2010
NHGRI tells us the increase over the
last several years has been anywhere
from 2 to 8 percent per year this
increase isn't just happening in the US
but also in the UK Australia Canada
France Japan South Korea Thailand Russia
and Kenya indeed we checked out a Kenyan
newspaper article on the benefits of
homeschooling it was very positive about
taking this educational route one
professor in Kenya was quoted as saying
home schooling focuses on learning and
mastering concepts not scoring good
grades one mother who was homeschooling
her kid said that the system limits
ability and potential because it is
geared towards passing exams many home
school advocates will insist that
traditional schooling doesn't always
roundly educate but rather teaches
students only to pass exams many
homeschool advocates will insist that
traditional schooling doesn't always
roundly educate but rather teaches
students only to do well on tests are we
teaching kids to become cogs in machines
to be good workers but lacking in
curiosity and critical acumen this is a
far cry from how famed American
philosopher John Dewey saw the best kind
of
ocation which he believed was not just
remembering things but reflecting on
them
he once said give the pupils something
to do not something to learn and the
doing is of such a nature as to demand
thinking learning naturally results in
the UK it is well known that there is a
teacher hiring crisis teachers are
leaving in droves and according to the
Guardian in 2017 around half of teachers
are thinking about leaving this is
mostly due to an intense workload based
on constant tracking of students
never-ending tests and all the extra
work that is not really about what
happens in the classroom but centered
around passing exams teachers themselves
are said to be suffering from fatigue
and mental illness while it is widely
reported in 2018 that UK students were
suffering from anxiety and depression
due to recent exams so with all that
workload and anxiety are traditionally
schooled students any more educated than
homeschooled students we looked at SAT
results for kids in 2014
take a look at the following numbers
homeschooled students scored better in
all three categories NHGRI tells us the
home educated typically score 15 to 30
percentile points above public school
students on standardized academic
achievement tests it added a 2015 study
found black homeschool students to be
scoring 23 to 42 percentile points above
black public school students often
homeschool students are in the 80th
percentile while public school kids are
in the 50th percentile just about any
resource you read will cite statistics
telling you homeschooled kids do very
well you'll hear things like Stanford
University accepted 26% of the 35 home
schoolers who applied nearly double its
overall acceptance rate such quotes of
course aren't representative with such a
small testing group there is a high
standard deviation which means it isn't
reliable but it is however interesting
why are they doing so well the main
reason is all the attention is on one
child or at most a few children but the
parent can focus on that child's
weaknesses if the parent knows what he
or she is doing the kid will more easily
get through difficulties they face
education becomes made-to-order there
are no class clowns and exterior
attractions getting in the way of study
the child can spend every day totally
focused on the subjects at hand parents
can also inculcate and ensure the
importance
self-study reading books and being
curious it's not as if the child has
many escape routes or can proffer those
dog-ate-my-homework excuses another
thing other than creating your own
course based on your child's needs is
knowing how best your child learns there
are lots of pedagogical approaches and
we all respond differently to them a
teacher in a traditional high school has
one approach for the entire class which
of course is not his or her fault but
that approach might not work for your
kid there are other benefits to
taxpayers in the u.s. pay around $12,000
per year for every pupil that goes
through public school though the cost
differs dramatically per state
you saved the people money by
homeschooling the average cost of home
schooling is said to be somewhere
between five hundred to two thousand
dollars for books and materials and if
you were thinking about private school
the costs can be oppressive think of all
the money you could save so what else
did the people say that promote home
schooling they tell us the parent-child
bond will grow stronger on top of that
some schools are not full of little
angels as we all know at home it's
unlikely your child will be skipping
classes to smoke weed behind the
basketball courts it's unlikely they'll
face bullying or get into fights within
the confines of their own home they
won't experience racism or prejudice
they won't have to undergo the stresses
of being popular all those childish
hierarchies that can be a minefield for
young folks they likely won't get a
bullet in the back delivered from a
quiet kid whose hobby was cutting the
wings off trapped birds they won't spend
the year depressed because they got
dumped by a girl in chemistry class and
they certainly won't be sneaking to the
bathroom to see if their pregnancy test
is positive well they could still get
pregnant of course but perhaps it's less
likely if they are not surrounded by the
opposite sex day after day in school the
question is is keeping your child away
from these apparent dangers in itself a
possible danger to the development of
said child after all the workplace the
rat rates the dating game they can all
be minefields - does a child need
traditional school in order to learn how
to navigate tricky social and workplace
situations it is the loss of social
interaction where most people say
homeschool finds its negative not to
mention your child might resent the hell
out of you for taking him or her away
from their friends from pulling them
from the football team the after-school
photography group high school prom and
perhaps even a first kiss will the
parent-child bond grow and flourish or
will being next to each other all day
some feelings of animosity have you ever
tried being with someone non-stop
arguments often happen only because of
the lack of space we might also ask if
the parent is cut out to be a teacher
one not only requires knowledge but also
patience if there is a lack of patience
unlike at school where the teacher is
gone when the bell rings the child is
stuck with the target of their ire then
again if you're a super cool parent and
you're fit for the job you might realize
when things are getting tough and just
say school is over for the day go out
and enjoy yourself not something that
happens in a traditional school setting
homeschooling offers flexibility there
is of course the negative of
homeschooling costing money in other
ways you must have a fair bit of cash to
do it as it means one parent can no
longer work outside the home you'll need
some relative comfort to take this on if
you have that then you also have to be
the kind of parent who fully understands
subjects such as physics chemistry
calculus the Industrial Revolution and
at the same time be able to decide for
some great works of literature or know
how to write a compelling short story
not all math gurus are creatives and
vice-versa can you even teach your kid
to swing a baseball bat do you even have
time to visit a field and help your
child work out do you understand the
rules of football and tennis can you
teach chess strategies or do you know
how search engine optimization works
your kids might not study some of these
things but during the socialization
process in traditional school much can
be learned from other kids basically you
must be damn talented if you want to
homeschool kids especially when they get
older but the statistics don't lie and
homeschooled kids do tend to do better
than traditionally schooled kids one
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great website so what do you think is
homeschool a better way to educate you
or our home schooled kids destined to be
socially awkward freaks let us know your
thoughts in the comments also be sure to
check out our other video called private
school vs. public school which is better
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