Advantages of Home Schooling over Public Schooling
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Homeschooling has gone from relatively nothing in the 1970s to around two million homeschoolers in 2009. With this increase in children being taught at home there has been an increase in scrutiny on whether these children are receiving an education that is comparable with those that attend public/private schools. The biggest debates involve social interactions and whether the parents are qualified to teach their children at a reasonable academic level.
Dr. Brian D. Ray of the National Home Education Research surveyed 11,739 homeschooling students and their families from all 50 states through 15 independent testing services during 2008-2009, these studies have shown some startling results.
In all subjects the children outperformed their public school counterparts, in reading, math, language, science, and social studies for the public schools the scores where in the 50 percentile, while for homeschooled students they ranked in the 84 to 89 percentile.
