Annotation 3

Homeschooling doesn't work

The supporter of homeschooling promote that homeschooling is surely beneficial for the relationship between parents and children and even help children live more happily and healthy.

However, behind the perfect ideal of homeschooling, it conceals the appalling truth in the reality. The serious problems of homeschooling are revealed continually recently such as the fierce conflict between parents and children and also the problem of the abusing. According to the Coalition for responsible of Home Schooling, there were 94 cases of fatalities in homeschooling of America from 2000 to the present due to” the abusing of physical, verbal and emotional, confinement and food deprivation , isolation and totalistic families, sexual, adoption and special needs, medical neglect and identity abuse, trafficking and missing children.”  

Lately, there was a case of abusing of physical. According to the Homeschooling's Invisible Children (Rachel, 2014), which is based on the documents of newspapers,

on February 6, 2014, Horn Lake, Mississippi “11-year-old Tyler Raines was found dead in his home, covered with bruises and malnourished.” Tyler was homeschooled by his father and stepmother for two years; he was not allowed to go outside and also been exhibited from relatives and biological mother. Their parents were accused of “the capital murder and felonious child abuse and neglect.”

From the report of medical neglect abusing (clmccracken, 2014), on January 12, 2014, North Dakota” Aidan Edward Bossingham, age 13, was starved to death by his mother, Jessica Lee Jensen. He weighed 21 pounds when he died.” Aidan was a homeschooling child, diagnosed with a human growth hormone deficiency, but his mother did not give him the medical care or bring him to see doctor. Finally, the mother was accused of the murder.”

The abusing affair was not only happened on American but also happened on Taiwanese. According to Pound Pup Legacy (Kerry and Niels, 2009), on February, 11, 2009, a 16 year old boy who was educated at home was adopted by his “biological aunt Tai-Ling (Han) Gigliottiat at age 4 in Taiwan” was founded that he was beaten to his arm broken and also covered with “bruises and lacerations” for three years in Spring Hill, Florida, United States

From the abusing of cases of homeschooling, the reports uncover the truth of homeschooling, presenting the problem of homeschooling in the reality. Homeschooling may become a great danger for child, since children may have no access to the outside world for help. However, the fact of serious problems in homeschooling of reality seems to remind and promote the government and institute to face and cope with the truth so that homeschooling may not continually turn out to be the tool of committing sins for any adults.   

Reference

Coalition for responsible of Home Schooling ,Shining a Light on Abuse and Neglect in Homeschooling Environments. Retrieved from Homeschooling's Invisible Children: http://hsinvisiblechildren.org/fatalities/

Rachel, (2,15,2014) ).  Homeschooling's Invisible Children. (C. f. Education, Editor) Retrieved from Homeschooling's Invisible Children:  http://hsinvisiblechildren.org/?s=Tyler+Raines&submit=Search 

clmccracken. (3, 25,2014). Homeschooling's Invisible Children. (C. f. Education, Editor) Retrieved from Homeschooling's Invisible Children: http://hsinvisiblechildren.org/2014/03/25/aidan-edward-bossingham-and-2-siblings/

Kerry and Niels. (2, 11,2009). Pound Pup Legacy. Retrieved from Pound Pup Legacy: http://poundpuplegacy.org/about

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  Rachel, (2,15,2014) ).  Homeschooling's Invisible Children. (C. f. Education, Editor) Retrieved from Homeschooling's Invisible Children:  http://hsinvisiblechildren.org/?s=Tyler+Raines&submit=Search 

Reflection 1

               

Reflection 1 (Teacher and student first conference)

The first conference with the teacher makes me rethink about my essay further. I lack of a sense of broaden insight to face challenges of difficulties beyond the perfect ideal of homeschooling. Although it seems to be wonderful to persuade people to accept the varieties of benefits, there still exist the serious problems in homeschooling such as the fierce conflict between parents and children, abusing of verbal or body toward children or financial problems. There are many important aspects of homeschooling waiting for revealing and discussion, and I shall turn my way to focus on “homeschooling doesn't work.”

The two opposite sides of homeschooling in the article shall be more powerful and makes people feel both reasonable but hard to make the decision; at the end, I shall make the resolution and compare them in order. I need to stand at the opposite side of homeschooling to get the viewpoints and to respond toward the supportive side of homeschooling by using side by side or point by point; otherwise, my essay will just write the knowledge that people have already known. What I need to do is to uncover the real truth beyond the idealism and perfection of homeschooling and find out the reason to deal with the difficulties and set up the new strategy.

Besides, I can provide some new information of the new way of homeschooling such as learning together with the other family of homeschooling in community (collective homeschooling community)or learning online with the innovative technology at home with parents; not only telling people the traditional fashion of homeschooling but also the present and the future condition and expectation. Thanks to the peer comments, I will discuss more part of socialization(overprotect parents) and economic (double-incomes) problems of home education; I will also try to find out the examples of Taiwanese and compare western and oriental (especially in Taiwan )homeschooling. In addition, the books of suggestion are beneficial for me to read and learn from them. As for my essay construction, I will notice about the coherence between example and issue and also the forms of the quotations and references. 

In conclusion, I get the significant point and key to write a good professional essay; that is, I shall own the deep and wide vision to observe the questions and key points rather than using my stereotype and emotion to judge or ignore the other opinion. I shall stand on the high place to see whole the world thoroughly instead of staying at my narrow and inadequate knowledge to represent the globe. No matter in writing essay or being the wisdom leader or a researcher, I shall value the benefits in the both majority and individuals, and use the objective way to view the issue instead of following the trend of sight.