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Is there any difference between online schools and traditional homeschooling? And if it is, does it really matter?
A recent phenomenon is the number of high school students who do not categorize themselves as homeschoolers. . The thinking, as described is that they have just chosen another way to earn a high school diploma, and in some cases even to use public schools to do it
Several reasons for this could be:
- Students only by traditional public school their high school level. Thus, no experience homeschooler within categories.
- For many homeschoolers, there is a strong conservative flavor to the educational experience. The perception among some can be the homeschooling movement is a conservative movement. If students and their parents do not self-identify with conservatism, they may not see themselves as traditional homeschoolers.
- The online school students just do not make that connection. They are simply going to college.
question for homeschoolers is whether this is good policy or not. It is difficult to know. The large number of students going online can be helpful in making the case for homeschooling (because so many people are doing it). However, these are not students, in general, that will help the argument. They do not self-identify and homeschoolers and some would be shocked to learn that someone classified as such. So these families online high school unlikely to support a political agenda behind homeschooling.
How will this all end? It is difficult to know. Ultimately, I think it helps increase homeschooling laws in the short term. Finally, though, I think the future is that the number of online high school student who do not themselves as homeschoolers will grow. Must be a bad thing? I admit that I have no earthly idea.
What do you think?
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