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Home Education: Legal And Beneficial

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Home Education: Legal and Beneficial




Name of Student
English Composition II
April 2004

Formal Outline
Thesis: As parents, we not only have the right to educate our own children, but it is also our responsibility.
I. Introduction
II. Legality of homeschooling
1. Amendments
a. 1st
b. 14th
c. 9th
2. Cases heard in court
3. State regulations
a. teacher certification
b. public school equivalency
c. compelling state interest
d. least restrictive means
III. Benefits
1. Emotional
2. Spiritual
3. Educational
IV. SOCIALIZATION – the main opposing argument
1. Opportunities for in homeschooling
2. Negative in public (or private) schools
3. Results of testing conducted
V. Not a new fad, back to the way we were
1. Notables who were homeschooled
2. History of current homeschool movement
VI. Conclusion

Home Education: Legal and Beneficial
While the idea of schooling children at home is not new to our country, it is new to our generation. Most parents today, including myself, are a product of the school system and rarely explore all of the options for schooling our children. Due to a lack of knowledge, we place our children in a preschool, then a kindergarten, eight years of elementary, and four years of secondary school. Fourteen or fifteen years (preschool is now beginning at age three) of our children's lives are being spent away from us, and we're wondering why we've lost touch with them. Psychologists now say that it's not just quality time that we need with our kids, but quality and quantity time. How are we to give them a large amount of our time when they are away from us the majority of their waking hours? Homeschooling is the solution to this dilemma.
Because of the lack of knowledge...