Homeschooling

Yeah, I don't bother with restrictions. As long as the debate is fair I am fine.So bring on the rebuttals! (or however that word is spelt)Firstly you mention the money aspect. This is somewhat true that homeschooling is more expensive to the parents than public schooling is. I am going to agree with that.For the second point you made about Education, the people who are homeschooling their children should be required to stay closely to the curriculum, making sure everything that is learnt in the normal school environment is learnt. It shouldn't have to be in the same order but as long as everything which the assignment requires is taught then no harm is done. Again, homeschooling can lead to people learning faster due to learning styles and then time can be focused in homing the student's skills in an area of the student's decision when all tasks are completed.The third point is the one which I believe to be the weakest however. If a student wants to be more social, they could sign up for a club to do with something they like. They could make friends with these people and direct their life in a way which does keep friendships. Some people are very social, others are not. Those people who are not social don't need other people around. Hey, those other people around them in class can be distracting to some people. There are always those students which never want to let others learn and instead these students will disrupt the class. This can't happen with homeschooling because there's no other students to distract the learner.Okay, now to rebuttal the rebuttal! (That's not confusing at all!)Some students can adapt to other learning styles but the key word here is some. If a student has a slight advantage in being an auditory learner over the others for example, it is possible that because of the balance that student could adapt. Others (me as an example) just don't adapt to other learning styles no matter how much teachers try to force it down the student's throats. These students will continue to struggle when a different method of teaching is used which isn't their learning style (This usually affects people who are strong to one style, I am one of these people)Then you go into standardised testing. Well, this will or won't be a problem. Some qualifications such as BTECs for example don't do examinations and rather work off handing in assignments. Others such as A-levels do have examinations. Examinations are a problem for many students. For a start they target Read/Write learners. A pretty big problem. Public school can teach a few more students to be better at learning in this way but I don't think this counts for much as after the tests are done, many students forget how to, put it behind themselves and the skill will have to be relearnt at a later point. Now I will add my own argument that public schooling doesn't prepare students for life after school. There is no teaching going on to avoid the many swindles and scams out there. There isn't much teaching about how to handle money going on either. No information on how to pay taxes or how to open a savings account. There is no preparation going on for students in the areas which are REQUIRED for later life. If you're bad with money, you're screwed. It seems more like they're expected to know this without being taught at all and this is an area where homeschooling could help quite a lot because the government aren't doing anything about this.My idea is when the homeschooled student is up to date on their assignments, then the parent or tutor can teach the student how to survive in the real world. Sure public school can make you a bit more social but it is homeschooling which aims towards a wiser generation.