Would Children be Prepared for the Real World by going to School or being Unschooled

As you can see, my opponent is yes, obviously better than me at debating, for he is probably more experienced, and older, whilst this is my first ever debate. I shall try to attempt to be better at this current round. First, I shall address my survey I have conducted, or to say, conducting. This survey is still on. If you have not yet inferred, I am still in the age of school. I am part of a military family, so have been to many different schools through out my life. From the grade of second (2nd) to my current grade (a grade in which I have the right not to say), I have been collecting data on children (for clarification, ages 7-16), those who like/dislike math. In simplified terms, the outcome was a ratio of, as I said, 1:6, those who like to those who don't. Also, I will admit that arguments 1 and 2 are truthful, yet the third may be argued, yet as I said, I'm new at this, so I would not be sure of arguing that at this time would be for or against the standardized debating rules. Now, time to rebuttal! First off, I shall refute my opponent's argument that " Common skills not typically taught in a formal education are cooking, dish-washing, laundry, social skills, how to fill tax forms, how to eat and stay healthy..." This can be proven false. The definition of typical is " Having the distinctive qualities of a particular type of person or thing" (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com...). This would mean that (in the case of this argument) not all schools would teach these qualities, but some would. Most would, actually. As I said, I am part of a military family, so I have been to Texas, Germany,Virginia, and New York. As I went through each school, there was never a year when I didn't learn about common skills. I took two quarters of health in NY, a subject my opponent states is ..." not typically taught..." Many schools have home economy classes, in which students DID learn how to use basic cooking materials (post, pans, knives, stove, oven, etc..." and learned how to properly use both a washer and a dryer. In mathematics, students did learn about taxes, about money taxes, and how to write checks (http://www.ixl.com...). My opponent also states that children mus-int learn "everything". But they should learn a majority. Again, I use math as an example. Students, for the most part, ask teachers multiple time "when will we ever use THIS in the real world". Well, most to all of math is important. From being a dress designer to simply a waitress, math is always needed. My evidence for this is this website, http://weusemath.org.... Also, history is needed. If we were to stop teaching history, errors from the past could be made in the future. It wouldn't happen over night, but after a few years, in government and in the use of the military and even in things occupations such as construction, errors can be made if children aren't taught what things not to do in the future. Next, I shall argue that parents are not always basis of education. If unschooling allows children freedom of what to learn, how would a parent be a grounds of education if that person doesn't even have the knowledge of the subject? If the child wants to be a rock star, or an architect, how would the parent help if they are not an architect or have no musical knowledge (counting in time, playing the instrument, musical notation, etc...)? Sure, they can teach them somethings needed to do some occupations, but at one point, they will have to go to a university or college to learn further. Another things I might add, your definition of unschooling comes from a webpage clearly devoted to the subject. The actual definition for the term would be a home-school education with the child taking the primary responsibility instead of a parent or teacher; also called child-directed learning, self-learning (http://dictionary.reference.com...) Thus, the parent would have little responsibility in the child's learning, fro the child takes on primary responsibility. Just another, the term unschooled has the definition: Not educated at or made to attend school: unschooled children (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com...) I now end my argument for round 3.