The Case Against Home Schooling

Home schooling, when chosen for the right reasons and implemented in a correct way, can be an effective means of educating children. However, not everyone choosing to home school their children should embark on this route. Let's face it, just like there are some parents that should never have had kids, well, there are some parents that should not home school their children. These types of parents do not have the skills or understanding in order to give their children a full and effective educational experience.

Not every parent is qualified to be an educational teacher, and this is when the choice for home schooling is an often selfish one, and the child's best interest is not first and foremost. There are numerous tools available for parents that choose to home school, but if the parent themselves are void in some or all the curriculum realms, they will be fast tracking their child to a lack of knowledge. Should we not want our children to excel and surpass our own skills and experiences, is that not what we are supposed to strive for, giving our children access to the best education possible? So, if you yourself of void educationally, how can you expect to guide the best education possible for your children?

Some choosing to home school are doing so for religious convictions and want to only expose their children to a religious sensitive curriculum, while some others are paranoid and protective. They fear the big evil world out there will expose their child to common sense reasoning that they want to stifle and protect them from. Its plain paranoia and it can cause a child's development to be delayed on many levels. Again, it all goes back to some parents not being qualified to take on the role of educational teacher. Some parents can be an effective teacher, while some are selfishly choosing to home school when they cannot fulfill the requirements of ensuring that their child will excel academically, and only care that they excel religiously and are sheltered away from all bad in society.