Did you check out the link on the negatives of homeschooling?

Did I check it out? Yes, just now.

Accuracy? It looks to me like someone poorly rewrote stuff they found elsewhere on the net.

The grammar is terrible - almost as if it was written by someone for whom English is a second language.

*** Quote from the site:

"The concept of homeschool is based on personalized teaching for inculcating greater efficiency in a child."

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It never occurred to me that my job as homeschool teacher was to inculcate greater efficiency.

Huh? Am I missing something important about homeschooling?

I had to look up the exact definition of inculcate and here it is from the Miriam Webster online dictionary:

"to teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions"

I have been doing it all wrong!!!! We don't repeat much stuff (unless it is really fun) and I rarely feel the need to admonish my son.

It is usually fairly easy to discover the owner of a website. I did the research and whoever owns this site has hidden behind a "private registry" company so that they can remain anonymous.

Strikes me as somebody "scraping" content from other sites, poorly tweaking it and trying to make a few bucks from unsuspecting surfers.

OK... I know I'm rambling here but this is just too much!

I started looking around at other sections of this site. It literally reads like one of those "My Uncle, the late Dr. Jonasha, an Ambassador from Uguanda, has passed away and you have been recommended to me as a reliable and honest person to help claim the $100,000,000 my poor uncle placed in a U. S. bank acount. Can I trust you?

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Another great quote from this site under "curriculum":

Most of the schools have established the homeschooling curriculum to furnish a guideline to the students, even when they are at home. The homeschooling curriculum is actually an education guideline chalked out by the higher Government so as to ensure proper schooling of the children at home.

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Once again: Say what?

It is a scam - too bad there is no way to warn everyone!

***UPDATE:

If this site wasn't just so sad it would be rather funny!

Everyone be sure to NOT click on any of the "Ads by Google" links - if you do, whoever owns the site will earn money from google.

OK - with this I had to laugh - under one of the many Christian homeschooling links:

"In this increasingly commercialized world, Christian homeschooling helps you to maintain your religious identity."

What does commercialization have to do with it?

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I don't feel it's that objective or accurate.

It starts with that whole BOGUS socialization argument. I have NEVER lived in an area where there never any other children.

This TOTALLY Bogus socialization thing is aimed at a few extremists anti-social people we term xenophobes.

These people won't let their kids socialize even IN a school

Homeschoolers are shackeled to their beds. You're chained up like a dog.

And Finally IS SOMEONE TRYING TO SAY THE WHOLE POINT OF SCHOOL IS SOCIALIZATION, IT'S A SOCIAL CLUB.

Maybe that's why AMERICA is so stupid, because kids in school are too busy socializing instead of learning!

This fact has been proven when they segregated some public schools by sex. In the girls school the grades all went up by 10-20%!

Take boys away from girls and girls do better in school.

Most Parents don't teach, they supervise. Homeschool programs are designed for self learning.

And when parents DO teach it's usually on a one on one basis with no disruptions.

Most families who homeschool don't leave jobs to do it, there is a stay at home parent who stayed there before and will stay afterwards. Or there is a baby sitter.

The cost factor is somewhat true. It does cost extra to homeschool, that one can't argue with.

In even a somewhat disciplined environment there is no rushing about and no timesharing hassels.

The college education environment is drastically different from the primary and secondary school environment and lends largely to indepdent studies and research, plus a lecture hall.

Classes are not one after another. Labs are without the instructor only a grad student at the main desk. You are own yoiur own for librayr reserach and writing your papers.

College is 60% homeschool-like high school is not. You get some piddling homework that amounts to 20% of what college gives.

A homeschooler is more apt to to fell comfortable in most of the college work regimine.

Those that do virtual schools will be able to handle the lecture aspect.

I'm only on the first paragraph and I'm already lost. LOL! What is *this* supposed to mean:

**Quote - "The concept of homeschool is based on personalized teaching for inculcating greater efficiency in a child. The efficiency quotient are successfully proved by many children who being taught at homeschools has shown enormous skills and knowledge compared to the children taught at public schools."

Oh wow, this is a great sentence (my poor grammar/spelling radar is up tonight!!)..."Home schools are good substitutes for traditional schools but still some people believe that homeschooling cannot be practicable for everyone." What is "practicable"?????

Another "goodie"..."After educating your child at home school for some time, your child has to be put back in the mainstream education" SAYS WHO?????

More grammar hackles up..."Losing temper will not solve the problem but patience will."...and..."Moreover, if you act like some bore your child may lose interest in lessons."

Did someone actually post this here on Y!A as an anti-HS'ing source? Just who wrote this site, anyway????

The whole site is just a mess. I did a domain search and didn't get any information. A good site that can be referenced, will have information about the site owner, etc. I wouldn't trust the info here for anything...even w/o my grammar hackles getting up.

<<< shaking head >>>

EDITED TO ADD:

Oh, this link on the site is even *better* [sarcasm]:

http://www.homeschoolinkwell.com/cons-of-homeschoo...

I don't even want to try and refute it!

OK, I read it just now. and I have to say, I think it's full of grammatical and factual errors. Obviously not written by a homeschooler, because no homeschooler would think that socialization is an issue...it's true that some people will choose to stay home in order to homeschool, but it's by no means necessary. I know many single parents who homeschool AND work, it just takes creative thinking and planning.

And what was up with the statement over and over that you have to have an umbrella school? That is completely in error, and not required in ANY state. It is an option in several states, but never a requirement.

It's almost as if they felt that they had to put in some cons to make their site more 'realistic'.

I find those to be fluff rather then real. No, homeschooling isn't for everyone but talking about needing patience? I didn't have a lot of patience before I started but I'm learning as I go.

Edit: The more I read that site, the less I understood. Most of the site seems aimed at discouraging homeschooling rather then enouraging. I'm not sure why it's there in the first place.

Okay... you know how kids socialize before they go to school? You take them places, they have play dates with friends, the go to activities? And you know how kids socialize through the summer? They go out, they call friends, they go visiting, maybe camp or something? And you know how kids socialize after they finish school? They go out? They work, or they get into activities or call friends and go hang out? Well-- homeschooling is just like that. You can socialize everywhere with anyone. You just don't go sit in a school all day. You don't even have to limit yourself to homeschoolers. My kids friends are mostly in school. They meet them at karate class, church, or just in our apartment complex they go out and play ball or ride bikes. Invite each other over, play video games. It's not really an issue. I don't know why people think if you don't go to one specific place every day that somehow you can't meet people or go anywhere else. Just leave the house.

First of all what is Proud2beMommy talking about??????

Second the first link offering the disadvantages of homeschooling were written from a biased, presuppositional stance.

I have homeschooled for 13 years, my children do not excel in ALL subjects - I messed up along the way several times - But I would not change a thing - neither would they. The PROS far outweigh the CONS

My daughter graduated in 2006 with a 3.6

My son will graduate next year with a projected 4.0

Boy am I glad I didnt come to that site first when I was playing with the idea of home schooling! what a horrible mess! Strange how it has a 'Parents' and a 'Teachers' link at the bottom right. Did you notice it said 'pros and cons of homeschooling' but it only discusses cons. Very negative site, I was cringing after every paragraph. Oops, its 10p, time to go tuck my 14 yr old in, help him put his pajamas on and if we have time teach him some socialization. {do I even have to point out that was sarcasm?}

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