Home Schooling
Essay IV Home Schooling Ramona Peterson doesn’t have to worry about her kids running into any kind of “violence” at school because they’re at home gathered in their living room (CNN 1). Ramona says she decided to home school because her kids had “different learning needs” (CNN 1). ... 2 million students are now being taught at home, more students than are enrolled in the entire New York City public school system. Most of these parents are choosing to home school because of religious guidelines, the desire to spend more time with their children, a better education, the concern about morals taught at school, and the violence. There is nothing new or “un-American” about home schooling. Parents who are choosing to home school are breaking a pattern that has been established since colonial times (Pride 59).