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  • Essay / Homeschooling: freedom or neglect? - 1754

    Homeschooling benefits children more in their socialization skills than public school. Along with socialization, homeschooled students have a higher academic education than public school students. Homeschooling bypasses the middleman (i.e. the teacher). In a public school, a teacher teaches a subject to his or her students. When departure time approaches, the student goes home to do his homework; but often the student forgets how to solve the problems taught in class. The parent then sits with the child for the rest of the night, trying to reteach the child the lesson, only to find out the next day that the teacher taught the student in another way. In homeschooling, the parent becomes the teacher. The parent will have the student's textbook and workbook. The parent will know how to teach the student, thus avoiding long, frustrated evenings at home. Homeschoolers receive individual attention from the teacher, unlike public school students. When a student receives individual attention, their grades automatically increase due to their understanding of their studies. Quoted in The