what on earth does home school education mean?

Question:
Before I go deep into the theme of this forum, I would like to learn how you define "home school education"? Does it mean students would stay at home receving education from their mother or father rather than go to school and are taught by many trained teachers? Or does it mean one teacher or several teachers are invited to the student's home and teach the student there?

Answer:
-On what do you base your assumptions that 1) students oly remain at home--there are many libraries, musuems, private schools, homeschool associations, etc which provide educational activiites for children 2) mother or fathter are the only ones teaching, or that these individuals are untrained 3) simply becuase a teacher may have a degree that they are able to teach in all matters and areas.

One of the first things you need to udnerstand about your original question is that it is filled with misconvieved, fallacies about the homeschool situation. From there if you would like to disucss any questions or concerns you may have, feel free to post them.

-Your posting shows a remarkable bias against home schooling. My wife is a trained teacher. She is only a year away from her doctorate in education, has taught in public schools for ten years and has found that home schooling is far superior to public or private education. When teachers send THEIR children to private schools, it should be time to wake up and find out what is really wrong with the public school systems. My daughter was not getting the attention she needed in public school. I don't blame the teachers...though that is sometimes tempting...she was quickly becoming a failed student. She hated school. We sent her to a local private school but at $7800.00 a year, that was a very expensive proposition. She did much better in private school and learned to like school again but expenses, transportation (an hour round trip) and other issues led to my wife's decision to stay home one year and try home schooling. Parents are far more interested in results than teachers can be. A home schooling parent doesn't gloss over a child's inability to grasp something but continues to attack it until the child gains mastery of the subject. So many children in public schools fail a particular subject and NEVER learn it. A home schooling parent will not allow that to happen. Ninety percent correct is not really good enough. If your child doesn't understand something, you work with them until they do. As parents we take our children's advancement personally. Teachers do not. -I don't debate that there will be a fair share of home- schooled who will score very high on tests etc. just as there will also be a fair share of public/privately schooled who will score high as well. Those who want to really achieve will do so - and those who don't care - won't. My sister-in-law is finally giving up and putting h er 10yr old son in school, where he belongs, as she realizes she was never qualified in the first place to be his 'teacher'. Real teachers invest years of their lives getting the education it takes to be an educator themselves and I marvel at those 'laymen' who think they can give a child more than someone who is truly trained and educated for the job. I guess the 'real' teachers must be left feeling rather 'foolish' for having invested so much time/energy/money getting this education when they see how 'easy' it is to do it at home.