Pros+-+Introduction

Home schooling, which is learning outside of school, usually means learning at home (Roversi-Deal). Home schooling is becoming more widespread across the country every day, with a growth rate of 7-15 percent (Shaw). This growth is a result of more parents being upset with traditional schools and limits on curriculum. From this they say that they would rather handle lessons themselves (Feller 2004). Also parents gave two main reasons for picking home schooling; 31 percent expressed concerns about drugs, lack of safety and negative peer pressure: 30 percent craved the flexibility to teach religious or moral lessons. Sixteen percent claimed that they were unimpressed with the academic instruction at other schools. There are about 2 million kids current going to school at their home (Shaw). These 2 million kids represent the school-age-population, which is from ages 5-17 (Feller 2004). Home schooling is legal nationwide (Rivkin 2001), and takes place all across the world. In England, there is currently a hot debate about whether or not home schooling is right or not. “The key issue in the entire discussion is simply this: Shall the parent or the State be the overseer of the child?”(Rothbard 2006)