| Home schooling has a growing number of | | | | making friends. Even when the opportunities come |
| supporters, but it would be unwise to ignore the | | | | their way, they often have little in common with |
| many home school disadvantages, not just of the | | | | the majority of children who attend regular |
| children but also for the parents. | | | | schools and so have nothing to talk about or |
| Home schooling requires a lot of sacrifice on the | | | | activities they can indulge in together. Many |
| part of the parents in physical, financial and | | | | communities have home school support groups |
| emotional and social terms. Parents have to | | | | but these are artificial social units and the children |
| devote time to learning the matter they will be | | | | associate only with families with the same values |
| teaching, teach it, organize future schedules, | | | | and beliefs. They are deprived of the opportunity |
| arrange for field trips and other outside activities | | | | to meet with children of varied backgrounds and |
| and then arrange for some social inter action for | | | | beliefs. While such interactions may sometimes be |
| their children with their peers. That's a full day job. | | | | painful and lead to arguments and fights, it is an |
| Another of the many home school disadvantages | | | | essential part of the growing up process that |
| is the cost when the expense of all the inputs | | | | enables a child to be able to function in a varied |
| required for home schooling are weighed against | | | | and culturally complex society. |
| that of sending a child to a public school. | | | | One of the home school disadvantages that many |
| Additionally one parent may have given up a | | | | home schooling parents also recognize is that their |
| lucrative job to stay at home and this loss of | | | | children cannot take part in extra curricular |
| income should be treated as an expense, | | | | activities and sports. Things like debating, |
| especially for families that were used to a double | | | | dramatics, camping, school excursions and sports |
| income. | | | | are important to developing a child's character and |
| Home schooling means that parents are | | | | self confidence. |
| constantly with their children and have not time to | | | | Sports are not just about physical exercise but |
| themselves which can be emotionally demanding | | | | about understanding and working with a team. |
| and may cause emotional traumas in the family. | | | | Home school parents often feel that their family is |
| Another of the many home school disadvantages | | | | a team and if their children can work with this |
| is that parents' social circles are often made up of | | | | team they are fine. What they overlook is that |
| their children's' friends parents. Home school | | | | the family is a team with strong emotional bonds. |
| parents are cut off from this and, especially if | | | | What the children are being deprived of is the |
| there are no support groups available, get trapped | | | | ability to learn how to function in a team where |
| into an inward looking lifestyle. | | | | people will have different priorities, attitudes and |
| There are many home school disadvantages for | | | | goals. |
| the children, the chief among them being limited or | | | | Home school disadvantages for children are not in |
| no opportunities to develop social skills. Home | | | | the quality of the education they receive, but in |
| schooled children are often awkward in social | | | | their social development and ability to function |
| situations and have limited opportunities for | | | | effectively in a complex society. |