Difference between revisions of "Essay:Differences Between Homeschoolers and Public Schoolers"

Latest revision as of 17:05, March 27, 2017

There are some fundamental differences of significance between homeschoolers and public schoolers:

1. Homeschoolers are consistently more proficient in mathematics, science, writing, and language.^[1]
2. Homeschoolers do not stop learning upon receipt of a diploma; most public schoolers do not try to learn outside of school
3. Homeschoolers vote at three times the rate of public schoolers, when they become of voting age
4. Homeschoolers engage in less deceit than public schoolers, and are less easily amused by it
5. Homeschoolers form fewer cliques and gangs than public schoolers
6. Homeschoolers are less amused by profanity, and rarely have the compulsive profanity common to public schoolers
7. Homeschoolers are more able to be self-employed or self-disciplined without requiring constant supervision.
8. Homeschoolers are more likely to embrace faith and have a close relationship with God.
9. Homeschoolers pray more often than students in public school, where prayer is censored.
10. Homeschoolers perform better on average on all standardized test that are not infested with liberal bias (and even some that are)
11. Homeschoolers attain higher literacy rates and reading competence, due to an absence of anti-intellectual peer pressure.^[2]
12. Homeschoolers have much lower teen pregnancy rates, and abortion is almost unknown among homeschoolers.

(a start; please improve)

References

1. ↑ Dr. Brian Ray, A Nationwide Study of Home Education: Family Characteristics, Legal Matters, and Student Achievement, National Home Education Research Institute, Seattle, WA, 1990, p. 53-54.
2. ↑ Dr. Brian Ray, A Nationwide Study of Home Education: Family Characteristics, Legal Matters, and Student Achievement, National Home Education Research Institute, Seattle, WA, 1990, p. 53-54.