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Homeschooling: the Advantages and Disadvantages
Colleen Byrne
Western International University
COM112 Utilizing Information in College Writing
Amanda Bradley
March 5, 2006
Introduction
Picture a home where the children are reading books from the local library at the kitchen table, parents working diligently on a plan for their school week, the children learning from the people they trust the most, their parents. This is a normal scene from the house of a homeschooled child. Now picture a place where children attend a structured school and some stay home, sheltered from their peers and outside influenced education. This is another version of a homeschooled family. Which way is the most beneficial for the child? This is a heated question with many different responses. The purpose of this research paper is to figure out which way works for individual families.
History of Homeschooling
"Through the late 1700s and early 1800s, children continued to be either taught at home by their parents or they were taught in church schools. Wealthy children throughout the colonies were sent to tuition schools for college preparatory courses, trade or commercial schools existed which also required tuition, and finally, for the poor, there were tax-funded "charity" schools which taught the rudiments of English, mathematics and moral education. There were no public schools and there was no compulsory education or mandatory attendance of any kind until much later." (Seelhoff, 2003, pg. 33) Homeschooling is not a new trend; it was the foundation of our country's schooling system. One of the reasons for the new found interest in homeschooling is to take back the control from the government and put the control back in the hands of the parents. Homeschooling is vastly growing to nations as widespread as Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, The United Kingdom, as well...
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