This article provides a counter argument for my paper. George Shepard expresses the harm homeschooling can cause for public schools. He explains homeschooling and private schools provide a choice for children educations causing public school education to decline. He states, “students learned best when they learned together in public schools that taught a common core of civic values: that government-run and government-funded schools were the path towards social equality and the creation of a good citizen” (Shepard 5). Homeschooling values and goals are opposite of public schools; homeschooling promoting independence and intelligence, not equality and socially acceptable. Shepard talks about the diversity public school provide to encourage a
