If you think you can be good enough to teach them all the material you need to know. The trouble with that thinking is, you will eventually get to a point where you won’t be able to teach a child everything he needs to know. Think about it: most teachers teach only one-two classes, since they have multiple sections of the same class. They know a ton about the subject that they are teaching. You get stuck teaching your child like 6-7 subjects, so if you want to make sure your child is getting a good education, you have to make 6-7 lesson plans. Also, it’s hard for a parent to be knowledged in all of the middle school and high school math, science, English, history, and foreign language information that his child needs to know. This is true even if the parent is exceptionally bright. So the quality of the child’s education will suffer if you home-school, especially in the higher levels. It’s better just to let your child have multiple teachers.

You might be able to pull off doing home school on the elementary level, particularly with the math and English areas, but it will hurt your child in the end if you continue to home-school him/her. But even in the elementary school level, the kid might miss out on socialization skills if you home-school him/her.

There might be a few exceptions, like perhaps if your child is getting beaten up in school, or if the school district is failing miserably. But generally, you shoudln’t home-school a child.

It depends on a lot of factors, including how good or bad the area is, how good or bad the schools in the area are.

The parents ability to supervise and get the job done. The ability to pay for the materials to get the job done.

There are also other aspects of schooling that need to be supplimented. For example, all schools teach music, generally choir and they do plays.

Now, if you’re religious the Church can solve that problem as many of them do plays now and then and have choirs.

Otherwise you’re going to have to do things like put them into dance classes or Karate classes or soccer and softball when they are old enough (6 or 7) to get used to team and coordination efforts.

This also fullfills sports and PE or Gym

Going to the park.

Going on field trips.

Buying equipment as well as books and programs.

Elementary schools often have modestly equipped science labs for demonstrations. You need to either do a few demonstrations at home or go on field trips where the child can see and even do hands on at a museum.

LAter on many schools offer “shops” for electronics, plastics, fibre glass, metal, etc.

You have to buy tools and supplies to help cover this area.

Edmunds Scientific and Radio Shack sell some kits for electronics.

Hobbies shops have other supplies.

If you homeschool correctly and don’t follow a summer vacation plan but do provide time off, lesiure, travels and social time on weekends and evenings it is possible to get a kid college ready by age 15

Right now studies show that homeschoolers are 2-3 grade head of those in the same age level.

Hence 15-16 year olds have basically compelted high school.

It is a good idea to pay for testing periodically. Say every 3 years. You find a center that administers a standards test, such as the Stanford-Binet (schools do it for free to school students homeschoolers must pay, around $200+) and then have the results explained to you.

The test shows the national average and where you child ranks. The idea is to be one or two numbers beyond the STanine or at minimum AT the stanine.

To get an idea of where Public Schools are, some rural schools are doing above the stanine. Los Angeles is doing far below the stanine. In the New York state schools three years ago they almost threw out the Regents Math exam because next to no one passed it. That is the state of brick and mortar schools.

But when the Parents don’t care and the Child doesn’t care then the program doesn’t work.

The net result is will you know less because in a school you are exposed to it, like it or not. In school you have to sit there day after day and listen and you will absorbe something.

It’s not a matter of right or wrong; it’s a matter of whether it’s in the child’s best interest to be home schooled or not. Personally, I don’t believe that home schooling is the best choice for a kid unless that kid’s some sort of celebrity whose got to be on the road all the time. Then, there’s not much of a choice.

Public/private school is the best bet for a child because not only does the child get an adequate education (versus being schooled by a parent who may or may not be qualified to teach his/her own kids at home), but one of the most crucial pluses of attending a school is that the child is given the opportunity to partake in SOCIAL INTERACTION. These kids need to be able to get along with other children and learn from an early age that not everyone grows up with their specific situation and that all people are different. Attending a school with other kids is a way for a child to develop the necessary social skills to excel and become successful in the real world. Home schooling does not provide such an opportunity.

…..it all depends on child and his or her parents.

If the child isn’t doing well in school for one reason or another, then the parents pulling him or her out and homeschooling them would be acceptable.

On the flip side, if a child is doing well in school and the parents only want to pull them out because they think the child would benefit more from homeschooling, then I don’t think homeschooling is appropriate. Why? Because even though the child may in fact do better, you’re depriving them of the real world experience- i.e., college. The very same things that homeschooling parents claim are the reasons why they homeschool are the very same things that come into play in college.

Theres no right or wrong way for a child to learn but I wouldn’t home school my child because I think that having the right social skill far outways the good grades you might get from the one on one attention. But if it suits you and your child then I can’t argue about it.

depends if the child wants to get homeschooled and if the parents want to.

Yes, if you can afford to stay home and do it yourself, why not? It’s your child, not the States!…Public School will give your child an education in sex, drugs, and how to “hate” America!….It’s nothing more than a baby-sitter for parents who have to work to keep up their payments on all the TOYS they can’t live without….So, they farm out the kids and have no clue what is going on with them…..Why have kids if you can’t take care of them yourself…..!!!……If you don’t like this answer, than do something about it…..When was the last time you went to school and talked to the teachers about our child, or went to school to hang out with them…I dare you to go “hang-out” with your kid at school~…Oh, they will be so embarrassed? Or will it be you that’s embarrassed?…Either way, not being able to associate with your child and their peers is proof of the “distance” school places between parent and student…..Just because you can see them at dinner and on weekends does not mean you have a good relationship..Try to stay home and teach your child, make three meals a day for them, and do everything with them.!!!..I dare you!

not really to me because then the child wont have any good social skills when he/she grows up

but it may give a better education because there wont be anyone around to distract the child