Homeschooling VS Public School

I ASK ALL VOTERS TO DECREASE HIS POINTS FOR USING WIKEPEDIA AS A SOURCE. WIKEPEDIA IS NOT A RELIABLE SOURCE AND ANY INFORMATION TAKEN FROM IT WILL BE COMPLETELY IGNORED. Back to the argument: 1. You are missing the point. At these co-ops, the students are pretty much allowed to act as they would in a normal school. There are dress codes, etc and yes, there is highschool drama. I went to highschool for my sophomore year and then moved back to homeschooling. The highschool was way less organized, the classes were twice as easy (I got 98%-100% in all classes but one and that was a 94%) and no, it wasn't cause the teachers were good it was the opposite. They sucked and gave us the easiest assignments I had ever seen. It was by far the worse teaching I had ever received. The social life there was almost identical to what i got at co-ops. Boyfriends, girlfriends, kids who argued with the teachers (by teachers I am talking about supervisors as we had to do school there but it was pretty much just a succession of study halls), class clowns, a**holes in the hallways, etc. There was very little difference in the social life. 2. The curriculums are almost all designed so that students can teach themselves if need be. That is what my brother did for Calculus and he ended up going on to Mechanical Engineering on a full ride (same one I mentioned before). I would like to point out that you didn't attacking homeschooling at all. You didn't, in fact, support your arguement that the schooling was worse in any way. 3. I'm not saying it is indicative of universal success but it is an example that yes, kids can succeed. My brothers best friend went on to get a Bepko along with 2 other people from our co-op. It is just an example of how homeschoolers can never be counted out as competent (not saying you did but some do) just because they never went to a "better" school (that isn't better). 4. Well. I'm gonna go ahead and say that my family isn't at all financially secure. We live in, not a slum, but in the more poor area in town and we are very much so middle class. Homeschooling isn't for everyone. I'm not arguing that it should be implemented as the national way of education. My argument is that, for the moment, it is, in fact, better than public schooling. You are making assumptions. You are saying that homeschooling families aren't normal. We are very much normal. I go to service camps, I go to youth camps (all attended by a majority of public schoolers) and not a single person has ever once guessed that I was homeschooled. TO them, I was another public schooler. We are very much normal. I am comparing that homeschooling is better. If you want to say that my argument is invalid cause they aren't at all the same situations, then you shouldn't have taken this debate. This is a comparison of which is better. Homeschooling statistics are better and until you find some statistics to say other wise, mine are standing. The tests that I got my statistics all ensured (as far as I can tell and I know at least 2 are) that the students came from the same background, same community, close to the same income, but that they were only really different in how they were schooled. You posted very little facts in this. Your middleschool.org website is intriguing but makes generalizations. I don't have a track I can run on. I just run around the neighborhood after having measured it and found it to be a mile distance. I just go to the park to practice cross country. What homeschoolers don't have, we make up for. If we want to go to a gym, we go to a gym. We want to swim, we find a place to swim. One of the disadvantages was patience but that isn't a problem with homeschooling, that is a character issue with the parent. You can't count that against us. I at this point, have a little over 100 characters so: Conclusion: I have shown that homeschooling is better. That our grades are good AND we can uphold a social life similar to that of a public schooler's life.