Homeschooling today

It's been going on 12 years since I've last did a 8-10 page research paper for English 101 for Community College Public school or private school vs. homeschooling. If you would have told me that homeschooling was the best solution, I would have probably argued why public school or private school might be the best solution for kids going to elementary school, junior high, and high school. However, my views have changed in the past 10 years. First of all, public school have been like a war zone for kids. Bullies are a lot more common, gang violence is happening more in the inner cities, gun violence has been on an all-time high, suicide rates are at an all-time high, and what is being taught in the school curriculum is a whole lot worse nowadays than it was back in the 80's and 90's. Private school, once thought of as a school parents wanted to send their kids to, have become more and more like public schools in their teaching criteria. Parents want the best education for their kids and their kids are getting a watered down version of learning to where he or she can just get their passing C or D to graduate from high school and not learn a thing after they graduate. Parents who have brought up their children in a Christian home where he or she was involved in the church and church activities instill Proverbs 22:6 (KJV) which says "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." This is a constant Bible verse that my mom instilled when she was raising me and my 6 older brothers. Some of us went through challenges while others of us didn't go through as much challenges. Out of all of my brothers, I was the only one that did 2 years at a private school.

Now my attention will be focused on homeschooling. At this day and age homeschooling may very well be viewed as the best solution. Here's why, for one school is not held 5 days a week and 6 hours a day like both public school and private school. What children learn in public school or private school for all of those hours, children learn the same thing in 2 hours at home. Parents have an option of what subject or subjects that they want to talk about while homeschooling their kids and SAT's tests or any form of Aptitude tests are not focused on as much like they are in public school. The children are in their element and the parents who are teaching their children are like their children's advisers as well as their teacher. Public school or private school can be challenging for children and making friends can be tough because there are crowds. The popular crowd, the smart crowd, the thug crowd, etc. Not everyone is going to like each other and often arguments, bickering, and fighting may occur when children are in both public school and private school. Parents won't have to worry about things like that going on because they would be homeschooling their children at home. There are some knocks on homeschooling like home-schooled children could become emotionally and socially detached after they graduate from high school and decide that he or she may want to go to a Community college or a University. Also, home-schoolers are viewed as possibly being emotionally and socially detached in the workforce too. I think that may have to do with a lot of exposure that parents have going on for their children when he or she is meeting new people. In church, it's easy to fellowship and meet a lot of new people if a home-schooled child or children was brought up in the church. Another thing, you meet a lot of people traveling and going on different field trips. I think if parents are not satisfied with the education and if they feel that their children are not learning then homeschooling is not a bad idea. I think probably the biggest challenges that kids go through is being ridiculed or being made fun of in private school or public school. If a child have Autism, Down syndrome, Dyslexia, ADHD, etc., he or she is prone to being bullied because of it. Parents who home school their children with special needs or who have children with any kind of disability will feel a lot better than sending him or her to public school or private school. Public school and private school is where they label people and stereotype people. The education have been dumb down to the point that it's not worth parents sending their children to public school or private school.