This is a very controversial issue for myself as I wasin 4-H while in high school and I knew a lot of home schoolers. In fact some of my good friends switched from public school to home schooling in the middle of their high school years. Some of my own opinions ondisadvantages of home schooling include the loss of cultural and economic differences, for example in most public school and many private school situations you are going to have kids of many different ethnic backgrounds. When I first learned about homeschooling, while in a public middle school I was kind of shocked at the idea and had a lot of feelings against homeschooling for example critics of homeschooling have pointed out that since homeschooled children are exposed to fewer kids, they may not learn the socialization skills that are paramount in learning to live peaceably with others. Also students that are placed in a home school environment also do not have the same reaction thattraditional school children are faced with in regards to authority. Children in traditional schools have to dealwith authority through out the day from numerousteachers and administration. Lastly and I think I feelthis way due to the fact that I am currently in theprocess of getting a teaching degree and know the amountof work involved in the whole process, public and mostprivate schools have teachers that must be certified intheir field of teaching, thus they have gone throughyears of schooling wher...
