Getting rid of home schooling in America

My opponent claims homeschooling is more convenient: That’s distorting my words a bit. I’m not saying it’s more convenient for everybody. I said MAY be more convenient. Which I think is an undisputable fact. This asserts that moving schools is a great inconvenience-it is a minor inconvenience I have moved a total of three times in my life (from America to Cape town South Africa, from Cape town to Johannesburg SA, and from Jo’burg to Maryland). And like I said I have been homeschooled my whole life. It is actually a great convenience to be homeschooled. When I moved to America from South Africa we were so busy, it really helped for us to be home schooled. What about schools, people have committed suicide because they were bullied and made fun of so much. So you can’t just point out all the problems of home schooling, when there are also many problems with going to a real school. Problems are unavoidable "Firstly, the idea that children who have social, mental or physical problems.." What about bullying. Are their special schools for those who get treated badly? If home schooling is legal than parents have more choices about their childrens education. If home schooling were illegal than parents would have to send their kids to a school even if home schooling would fit their life style better. The government does make sure we're doing what we're supposed to. When the end of the school year comes we will have to have an evaluator come to our house and make sure we have done everything according to the laws of home schooling that have been set out. My work has to get checked at the end of every school year. We must fill out forms, show grades, You are arguing that regular schooling should be the only form of schooling. I’m saying home schooling and regular schooling should both be legal. There are conveniences and inconvenience for both of them. But if only regular schooling is legal that can cause inconveniences. More flexibility the family has much more flexibly in meeting theirs and their kids needs if they have both of these choices set out. It’s much more expensive to homeschool a child than send them to a private school. Homeschooling requires one parent to give up their job Most parents don’t each have a job. And in times like this I think many mom's wouldn't be able to. this is a massive financial blow Furthermore, it requires parents to buy teaching books, an added cost. We have a simple way of helping that problem. We just reuse text books, and you still have to buy books for a regular school. And it’s not like text books are expensive. “if a kid thinks he is not meeting enough other kids…He can simply stop being home schooled and go to a school.” My opponent assumes that socialization is a highly objective measure; that you wake up one morning and realise you aren’t socialized. It’s not like parents are anti schooling. At one point in my life I told my parents I wanted to go to a school the next year, they were perfectly fine with that. I never ended up going to school though as I changed my mind. My opponent never argued any right for parents to homeschool their children, but in any case, it is the government's role in our society to ensure that all children get a decent level of education; I wasn’t saying I got good grades. A’s and B’s are about average at my co-op. Experience does give my an advantage as I have been home schooled my whole life  Parents who homeschool their children aren't qualified teachers. Teachers need to go through a system of tertiary education, both in their own subject and in teaching as a whole, to become teachers; parents who homeschool their children don't have these qualifications, and thus won't be able to do the job as well. This a common miss understanding. The home school curriculums are made so that the student is able to do most of the work on his own. So that you don’t need a teacher. For example, for my Algebra I watch a video every day. Then I have to work out problems, then after my problems are checked I watch another video that explains all the problems so that I can see what I did wrong. Parents have to take on a big responsibility when they decide to home school. They will take it seriously.  Part of learning at school is the exposure to different opinions; not only because it is something students will have to get used to when they enter society, but also because it helps them to develop their own beliefs. When homeschooled, only one view will ever be taken into account. Consider, for example, the teaching of evolution; while at a public school evolution and creationism may both be put forward, a homeschooled student is likely to be exposed to only one side. That isn’t true. I think home schooled parents make sure their kids have knowledge of other ideas. I just took a course that concentrated almost completely on other religions, And I’m taking one next year too. In some subjects like science, knowledge has changed drastically from when parents were at school; ideas like evolution or continental drift were only accepted into scientific knowledge recently. Parents are unlikely to understand these ideas. That shows the common lake of understanding of home schoolers. Like I said my parents don’t even teach that much. I can ask them for help but the material is all in the books (which are continually being updated) all I have to do is go back to previous chapters. Home schooling is a right. I see from your profile that your for abortion (even late term). Why should woman have the right to get their babies killed. But parents not have the right to home school their kids? Missionaries. If you’re a missionary to another country when you visit America how are you going to school your children? There are countless reasons why a parent might not want their child to go to a school because of beliefs. Most home schoolers go to more events then a regular school boy. Thus they meet more kids their age, ad socialize .