Home Schooling
Homeschooling is taken for many reasons, including religious beliefs, meeting the needs of special children, and school violence and bullying. In colonial America, homeschooling was the primary choice for schooling in the absence of public education (Chittom). I agree on the topic of home schooling for certain people’s needs or preferences. People can have varying opinions on home schooling but it’s actually a very credible type of schooling for the people that prefer it.
When prayer and bible were removed from the public school curriculum in 1962, many Christian families began questioning the public school environment and started looking for alternate means of education (Chittom). Some families could not afford the gigantic expense of religious private schools so they started considering the possibility of home schooling (Chittom). After Christian families started moving their children out of public schools, the ideas of homeschooling seemed to have gotten more spread out and more accepted.
Home Schooling can really benefit meeting the needs of special children when, in a public school a student with special needs could have a fidgety behavior that makes it hard for them to learn much. It offers a one-to-one, teacher-student ratio, and the attention provided by a parent rather than an overextended teacher can allow a child to blossom (Driscoll). A parent that is only dealing with just one child may not feel the limitations a teacher might when working with a classroom of physically challenged students (Wagner). Students that also might have things that do with music, acting, modeling, or anything that involves traveling excessively would also benefit to being homeschooled so they aren’t missing too much of public school and they can