home schooling
..., 1995) Home schooling also refutes the “more money equals better education” mantra of the teachers union. The average home schooling family spends approximately 10 percent of the per-pupil costs associated with government schools in achieving those academic results. (Ray, 1990) There are many different systems of home schooling. Some are distance learning or correspondence, cooperative teaching arrangements between a group of parents, commercial learning centers, and subject-specific tutors. Distance learning or correspondence learning is when the student receives materials from a certain company, and the student does the work, which is usually in the form of workbooks, and then mails the materials back in. With distance learning the parents really don’t have to do a lot because the student can call the company from which they received the materials and ask questions to the “teachers” there. Cooperative teaching arrangements are when a group of home schooling families in an area work together as a “class.” The children are taught different subjects by different parents. Some of the groups meet at different places and others stay in one place and the different teachers come in. Commercial learning centers are where the families that use a specific system of materials come together and learn from tutors and parents. This is the closest to traditional schooling that there is. Because the children all come to a set place everyday and learn together as a group. Specific tutoring is when a tutor goes into the home of the family and teaches to one family at a time. This is like the parents teaching, but it is Most home schooling systems have “home schooling support groups” that provide outings and other social activities just as you would find in traditional schooling. One group out of San Jose, California, called All Ways Learning in San Jose, is a great example of the social involvement. The group meets twice a week, once in a ...