Final Reflection

My topic throughout the semester had definitely changed. At first I can honestly say I was pretty against homeschooling your child. The more I researched the more I changed my mind and thought that the only thing needing change is the regulations for the parents. Some parents are already doing a great job because little did I know, most homeschool children are pretty smart. Another myth that I thought to be true was the social aspect of it. I thought that if you were in a homeschool that you were socially slow. Most studies show that it was not true. The parents have found other ways to get their kids involved socially. So after all of the research going into the exploratory essay, I decided that it was not necessarily a bad thing to homeschool your child as long as the parent was dedicated and good at teaching. I found that not every parent really knew what they were doing. I then found that it was because parents did not need anything to homeschool their child. There is absolutely no prerequisite or training needed to do it. They do not even need to graduate high school. You can not honestly expect a parent to teach their kid through high school if they did not even graduate themselves. It is absurd. So I proposed as my final solution that parents did need to have an Associate’s degree and some kind of certification of training to teach their children. This solution should be a federal law so that every state must abide. From there I think it would be helpful for there to be communities that help each other out. So from the beginning, I went from hating the idea of homeschool to wanting to help them out. I am not proposing full control of it, just regulations to help guide it. No child should fall behind as a result of homeschool.