Disadvantages Of Homeschooling

Families that choose to homeschool their children believe home is the safest environment for their children to learn in. Children that homeschool don’t have to deal with peer pressure or trying to fit in with the popular kids. When there is no social aspect to school the child is given the opportunity to focus in on their studies. The reason homeschooling can be a safer environment is because parents can monitor the environment on a day to day basis. The parents choose what the environment should look like. This aspect of homeschooling can be a big positive however, it doesn’t prepare the child for the big world. In life we are faced with numerous different environments that we have to learn to adjust to. Children can only learn how to overcome …show more content…
Parents that homeschool their children get to decide to some degree the curriculum their children study. When a child is homeschooled they can go at their own pace. This aspect to homeschooling can be looked at as both bad and good. When a child learns at their own pace they can thrive because they can really understand the information before moving on and they can also move faster if they understand the section. However, it can be bad when children are not pushed to their full potential. When children go at their own pace they can fall into the bad habit of moving slow because they get lazy. As previously stated above public schools base their curriculum on state standards. There is usually a lot of students and not a lot of time to cover material in depth, but students are exposed to an extensive range of concepts. Jennifer Courtney says, “Homes curriculum usually takes fewer ideas to a deeper level, while school curriculum usually takes more ideas and tries to connect them with one another, hoping to show the students the big picture” (Courtney). Those are the main differences in the curriculum in which students will learn in public school and in …show more content…
However, it takes a lot of investment and discipline from both the parents and the children. In many cases it is done wrong which leads to children being unprepared when they enter into the real world. There are only a few selected families that can take on this big investment and have a positive rewarding outcome. It takes a child with motivation and self determination to succeed in homeschooling. When a child is forced into homeschooling that is not motivated that is when the outcome can In many cases, students bounce back and forth from public school to home school. This I the worst choice for a child educationally and emotionally. It makes it difficult for schools to assess where the child is at academically. Therefore, the child may have to retake classes previously passed. When a child is passed back and forth between schools they also have to leave the many bonds they have made with their peers and