Home School Essay Research Paper When American

Home School Essay, Research Paper

When American’s think of education, they almost automatically think of public

education. Through the years it is slowly changing. Many parents’ today are

deciding to home school their children. Although most people think that a

public education is better, most statistics and facts tend to show that home

schooling is beneficial in more ways. It is estimated that parents are now

teaching over two million children at home, rather than in public or even

private schools.

Education in our public schools has been on the down slope for over twenty

years now. Public schools have lost all values and biblical morality. This

was what our country was founded on and it has been replaced with humanism.

One example of humanism in our schools is that they teach evolution, not

creationism. Some people believe that this problem is happening because of

the removal of God and prayer in public schools; the U.S. Supreme Court did

this in 1962. Beginning in 1962, SAT scores plummeted. Teen pregnancies,

teen sexual diseases, teen suicides, teen alcohol, drug abuse, pornography,

and illiteracy rates abruptly increased 200 to 300 percent (Klicka 48).

Violence is one of the main factors effecting are schools today. Rape is a

growing problem among juveniles. A juvenile commits one out of every five

rapes that occur in the United States. There is also a higher use of drugs

and alcohol among kids in public schools. Over 80 percent of public high

school students drink alcohol and

45.7 percent have used marijuana. Drugs and alcohol make most people

extremely violent. That is also why our violence and crime rates are so high.

Over hundreds of millions of dollars are spend on the security of our

nation’s public schools. In The Right Choice Home Schooling, Christopher

Klicka says, “In Washington, D.C., drugs and violence were such a problem in

one

Elementary school, that the principal banned regular recess, and the children

are only allowed to play outside in a pit enclosed by eight-foot concrete

walls, or on a small section of playground monitored by the police (Klicka

51).” The disciplinary problems of children usually start even before they

reach public school. In the last ten years, research shows that infants

raised in daycare “are more prone to behavioral problems as young children

than their home-reared cousins (Klicka 124).” If you keep your child at home

from the start, you will be able to discipline and raise your children with

the right morals.

Because so much time is spend trying to clean up and keep our schools safe, we

are more or less falling behind in our education. American’s are farther

behind in educational status than countries such as Japan, Taiwan, and China.

The teachers spend too much time on the little things and forget the real

reason why the children are there. Not only that, but the textbooks hold

inaccurate information and do not contain the whole story. Some textbooks

stated that the atomic bomb ended the Korean War (instead of World War II) and

that only 53,000, rather than 126,000 Americans, were killed in World War I

(Klicka 24 25). One book summarizes Abraham Lincoln’s and George Washington’s

life in approximately six lines each. Not only are the wrong things written

in the textbooks, they teach the children wrong values. In public school

textbooks, marriage is never mentioned as the foundation of the family, and

yet these books are supposed to be the textbooks that introduce the child to

an understanding of American society. Abortion is another issue. Mel and

Norma Gabler’s document states, “Abortion is discussed as an aspect of birth

control in biology and health and homemaking books” (Klicka 56). Not only

that, virtually all sex education textbooks used in public schools throughout

the country teach that any kind of sex is all right; such as premarital sex,

adultery, masturbation, homosexuality, and lesbianism. A lawsuit has been

filed against one Michigan school district after seventh through eleventh

graders received instruction in “Self-Pleasuring Techniques” that involved

techniques in masturbation, and descriptions of sexual fantasies involving

group and homosexual acts (Klicka 56). On the Massachusetts State Board of

Education, in October 1991, they enacted a policy to encourage local boards to

adopt a condom-distribution policy for high school students (Klicka 56). What

is this telling our children. Public schools are more or less encouraging our

child to have sex and expressing to them that it is okay. After all, they

teach our children that if it feels right, then do it.

On the other hand, when adults think about educating their children, they

often forget the option of home school. The idea of home schooling started

many years ago, but it really began to flourish in the 1970’s. For many people

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