Public school is better for developing life skills than Home Schooling

I enjoyed this debate too. :)Your arument is all about saying that my soucrecs studies are false, due to the selection. Well you imply that only the smart kids go do the tests, which is a logical fallacy. You say since a parent selects if their kid does the tests, than only smart kids do it, which is not the case. Most of the kids are average intellegence, as are the public school ones, yet the homeschoolers get better scores. Also my studies are correct because 16,000 home schoolers are used, and the same amout as the public recorded, so it is valid. You say that since it is not th ewhole than its not accurite, but ALL studies do not use every single per the U.S. yet they are consdered valid. ANd being used in those tests is OPTIONAL. So the otional argument is false, it is fairly accurite (not exact) but is close. So your lomeans that all studies are false, which is not the case. "Most take ERB's or EXPLORE tests? I didn't find anything that said homeschooled children take this test."Those are private school tests, but home schoolers have the option of taking the ones in the study, or these. the ones above are harder) "If a baseball team has 25 players, with the highest paid player making $30 million, the next highest player making $20 million, and the other 23 players each making $500,000, the average is $2,460,000. But since 23 of the players make only $500,000, that can be misleading."I answered this above, that is a bad example as well. the rich (or in the case of home schooling smart) would be counted, but since there are more average intelegence kids in a home school enviroment (in this case 500,000) then many of them will have choosen to be in that survey. So the studies are not exact, but they are close. And once again, your logic is all against the se;on, but in ALL STUDIES YOU DECIDE, so for the la time, your logic means that all studies are false, which is not the case. "Actually, I'm only showing you that the qualifications for homeschooling your child is very low and that if every parent decided to homeschool their kids then the end result would be bad. I would think kids from rich families would have a better social life, lol, their rich!"1. You have no sources proving that the rich teach the homesholling, and being risnt help a social life. Also many rich kids do terrible socially and when they are adults. So even if only rich people were homeschooled, which is false, then your argument would still be null and void. 2. Tutors are usally ined with home schooling (they have good credentials)3. If my studies are correct (which they probably not to far off) then even though they have low credentials, they make up for it by teaching their kids better, allowing them to have better standerdised test scoures. "I never said smart homeschoolers get "forced" to do anything. Don't be silly. I merely showed that parents with kids that do exceptionally well are more inclined to let their children take these tests "You say only enthusiastic people take the tests, but you have no proof to verify these claims. Also the kid may hate taking tests, but the parent is enthusiastic. So a b kid could be forced by his parents to take the tests. So this argument is flawed too. (not to be mean, but this is gonna be a DDO tip, if you want to make an outrageous/hard to belive claim, have a link that goes along with it to make it ightly more credible)"Taxes will be paid whether it's for a child going to school or a man going to prison. And you did not argue that it is only cheaper to the parent that is homeschooling the child depending on the methods they choose to use to educate that child, so it could turn out MORE expensive " I feel like Richard Nixon in his debate for congress, "you are now traped!". Here's the key d you said "could cost more" well yes it could, a honda could cost more than ferrari (unlikely just like your claim), on average homeschooling is cheaper, by about 1000 dollars the fact you pay for it in taxes, aka not free. So yes, anything could inherintly cost more, but usally one is less than the other. I will explain this a second time, widifferent source than before:Home schooling is much cheaper than public school education. If government is looking for ways to reduce costs, active encouragement of home schooling as a serious option ought to be promoted and encouraged. If most children were home-schooled, then many schools could become public parks or libraries, and all the fossil fuels used to drive children to school, to heat, light, and air condition schools, and other activities that are anathema to environmentalists could be avoided. Public schools could always be the option for parents who, for whatever reason, cannot home-school their children or send their children to private schools, but the public policy of promoting private instruction of students could solve many problems that government currently and clumsily tries to solve through the expenditure of vast government resources and the hyper-regulation of education in many states. [1]Now I will add on to my points:This is a new one:Your rich statements are al false because many minorities opt to homeschool:Minority children home-schooled also do better than their counterparts in public schools. [1]So minorites that opt to homeschool do better, and to be racist, but minorities are less wealthon average. Also your claims are flase because common logic disproves that, rural comunities have lless access to public schooling, so many of them homeschool. And people in thounities are usally lower classes. So common logic also helps diminish that argument of yoursThe tests:The stigma of home schooling is gradually diminishing. Home-schooled children outperform students in public schools on standardized tests. [1]Still more of the sameDr. Brian Ray, was recently published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Academic Leadership. Among other things, the study revealed above-average academic achievement by home-educated students and no relationship between the degree of state control of home-based education and homeschool students’ test scores. [2]So a perr review stuas you all is more viable than others, so this study is viable, are the others that I posted. Cost:Look at my last rebutal under the bold. ^Also student to teacher ratioKids learn better in smaller groups or in private les usally, that is pretty much non disputable, so homesching is better in that case too. The “student pupil ratio,” held in such grand esteem by those who disdain home schooling, is much lower for children taught by their parents than by harried teachers in public schools. Skipping homework, also, is much more difficult for home-schooled students than for students in public schools. [1]Conclusion:So in homeschooling you get tought better (the MAIN REASON FOR SCHOOL, and the most impertant part of this debate), it costs less on average, and is infact better than public schoolingr many other reasons not stated in this conclusion, btated in the previous rounds. Vote CON! :)And thank you too for the debatehttp://thenewamerican.com... [1]http://www.nheri.org... [2]