ENHANCING REGULATIONS OF HOME SCHOOL PROGRAMS 1 Enhancing Regulations of Home School Programs Machly Destin ENG 215 Research And Writing Dr. Saraswathi Lakshmanan May 11, 2015 ENHANCING REGULATIONS OF HOME SCHOOL PROGRAMS Enhancing Regulations of Home School Programs The contemporary society has been characterized by a growing acceptance and preference for home schooling, which has led to the diversification of the view towards home schooling as a means of ensuring more effective educational programs. Although tutors and parents have been carrying out teaching practices for a long time in the past, more enhanced home schooling has been adopted as a countercultural and radical change from the usual public education system. In the process of adopting home schooling as an alternative to the formal education system, advocacy groups have called for the enactment of legislations that establish national uniform guidelines that will make the education system legitimate. Such regulations have been adopted in a wide range of states with the aim of controlling home schooling and making it more effective to a level that is justified as compared to the formal educational system. However, different stakeholders in the education sector have been advocating increased regulations on the home schooling programs, especially in the name of enhanced accountability. Given the rising popularity of home schooling and the ineffectiveness of the system as a result of reduced regulation, it would be important to change the regulations for homeschools in an attempt to make home schooling programs as more effective and viable as the formalized, as well as public educational programs. Carrying out the teaching practice in homes was a program that was adopted in the late 1960s and 1970s when a political movement emerged and adopted the program as a radical critique of the cultural public education system (Imber & Geel, 2010). Advocates of home schools had the notion that public schools were supported the conservative conformity that all children were supposed to attend school. By the early 1990s, advocates of home schooling had their way, and most states had adopted laws that supported the practice. The subsequent periods have been followed by advocacy groups of home schooling have continued pushing for the adoption of both state and federal laws that dictate uniformity between home schools and public schools (Angelis, 2008). However, different states have adopted home schooling programs in different measures and thus, the operation of home schools falls under state laws, where such laws vary widely across different states. As a result, there are different shortcomings in home schooling regulations including the probability of the absence of restrictions on home scholars, low-quality education, as well as inadequate academic benefits to the participants in comparison with the formal educational programs. The probability of absence of restrictions on home schoo ...

1. ENHANCING REGULATIONS OF HOME SCHOOL
PROGRAMS 1
Enhancing Regulations of Home School Programs
Machly Destin
ENG 215 Research And Writing
Dr. Saraswathi Lakshmanan
May 11, 2015
ENHANCING REGULATIONS OF HOME SCHOOL
PROGRAMS
Enhancing Regulations of Home School Programs
The contemporary society has been characterized by a growing
acceptance and preference for home schooling, which has led to
the diversification of the view towards home schooling as a
means of ensuring more effective educational programs.
Although tutors and parents have been carrying out teaching
practices for a long time in the past, more enhanced home
schooling has been adopted as a countercultural and radical
change from the usual public education system. In the process
of adopting home schooling as an alternative to the formal
education system, advocacy groups have called for the
enactment of legislations that establish national uniform
guidelines that will make the education system legitimate. Such
regulations have been adopted in a wide range of states with the
aim of controlling home schooling and making it more effective
to a level that is justified as compared to the formal educational

2. system. However, different stakeholders in the education sector
have been advocating increased regulations on the home
schooling programs, especially in the name of enhanced
accountability. Given the rising popularity of home schooling
and the ineffectiveness of the system as a result of reduced
regulation, it would be important to change the regulations for
homeschools in an attempt to make home schooling programs as
more effective and viable as the formalized, as well as public
educational programs.
Carrying out the teaching practice in homes was a program
that was adopted in the late 1960s and 1970s when a political
movement emerged and adopted the program as a radical
critique of the cultural public education system (Imber & Geel,
2010). Advocates of home schools had the notion that public
schools were supported the conservative conformity that all
children were supposed to attend school. By the early 1990s,
advocates of home schooling had their way, and most states had
adopted laws that supported the practice. The subsequent
periods have been followed by advocacy groups of home
schooling have continued pushing for the adoption of both state
and federal laws that dictate uniformity between home schools
and public schools (Angelis, 2008). However, different states
have adopted home schooling programs in different measures
and thus, the operation of home schools falls under state laws,
where such laws vary widely across different states. As a result,
there are different shortcomings in home schooling regulations
including the probability of the absence of restrictions on home
scholars, low-quality education, as well as inadequate academic
benefits to the participants in comparison with the formal
educational programs.
The probability of absence of restrictions on home
schooling is high, which in turn may lead to malpractices such
as mistreatment of children in home schools (Angelis, 2008). As
a result, most of the educational objectives that are meant for
the scholars may not be met. It would be important for the
government to enact regulations that will require state

3. notifications, which will build a specific force to enhance
responsible home education. Such regulations will mainly
involve setting requirements for parents to provide regular
notifications regarding their intent and preference to home
schools. Such a notice would include minimum requirements
such as children’s personal details, grade levels, as well as the
details concerning the contacts of such families (Angelis, 2008).
Such notifications will enable the state governments to control
the operations of home schools and further ensure that all
children are accorded the right treatment by their home school
teachers.
In addition, regulations are supposed to enhance measures
to ensure that the education services provided by home schools
are beneficial to the children in the system. In some cases, those
involved in home-school teaching may not be adequately
qualified and experienced to cover the existing curriculum,
which leads to the risk of low-quality education services to the
students (Edwards, 2004). Such an occurrence is mainly as a
result of the absence of adequate regulations to provide a level
of skills and experiences that teachers in home schools should
attain in order to qualify for such programs. In order to solve
such a problem, regulations should be changed to ensure that
parents that are providing primary instructions in home schools
have a minimum requirement of a high school diploma.
In some instances, the subject matter covered in home
schools may not be necessary to the child’s academic
achievement, which reduces their academic know-how as
compared to those in the public education system (Edwards,
2004). Home schools mainly involve teaching students the
subjects that involve real life situations, as opposed to the
standard subjects, such as English, Math, History, and Science,
which are covered in other systems of education. In order to
solve such a problem, it is important to change existing
regulations to ensure that enacted legislations require parents in
home schools to facilitate learning in the same subjects that are
covered in public schools. Although such parents may not be

4. required to use the same curriculum, such regulations would set
out a framework upon which children would learn these subject
matters.
The rising popularity of home schooling has led to a
situation were more parents and guardians to prefer home
schools as an alternative to the conservative public school
system. As such, states have come up with regulations to
enhance the effective use of home schools in educating
children. However, issues related to home schools have come up
including the reduced control of such an education system by
the government, which may lead to malpractices such as
mistreatment of children. In addition, low-quality education
may be provided in home school, especially in situations where
the parents that teach do not have the academic qualifications
required for such positions. Regulations should be changed to
require that parents should provide the state authorities with
regular notifications on the welfare of the child participants in
the programs, as well as ensure that the subjects covered are
similar to the ones covered in the public school education
system.

5. References
Angelis, K. (2008). Home Schooling: Are Partnerships
Possible? Maryland: ProQuest.
Edwards, R. (2004). Children, Home, and School: Regulation,
Autonomy Or Connection? New York: Routledge.
Imber, M., & Geel, T. (2010). Education Law. Cambridge:
Routledge.
Your paper meets all assignment requirements. It has a specific
title, a
defensible thesis, a brief history of the issue and problems of
what is wrong in
the current scenario of home schools. Good.
My only concern is the style of the paper; it kind of sounds
puffedup/
inflated.
Take, for example, this sentence: "Although tutors and parents
have been carrying
out teaching practices for a long time in the past, more
enhanced home schooling has
been adopted as a countercultural and radical change from the
usual public education
system."
You have provided in text and reference citations; however,
there are no quotation
marks. Are they all paraphrases? Please make sure all info
borrowed verbatim
is enclosed within quotations and both quotations and
paraphrases
have in text and corresponding reference citations.
If info borrowed word for word from a source is enclosed within

6. quotation marks, turnitin won't highlight it as plagiarized. Just
making
sure you've got this right as Assign 5 has a turnitin submission.