Home-schooling. Pros and cons Home-schooling, to teach your children at home instead of sending them to a school, has been rising lately and is getting a lot of supporters that claim their right to teach their children; but Do they have this right? and Is it as beneficial as they claim? It should be highlighted that homeschoolers perform better than students from public schools. In 2009 the effective of home-schooling was researched. It measured how well homeschoolers performed relative to the public school students on the basic skills: an average of 30% better. The most important advantage of home-schooling that should be mention is the possibility to adapt based on the strengths and weaknesses of the student. If a student is learning something fast it is easily possible to move on earlier. If a student is struggling with a topic it is easily possible to spend more time on that topic to make sure the student really understands it. On the other hand, it should be clarified that there is a crucial component to public schooling that home-schooling could not even begin to address. That is social development. School is also the place where kids meet strangers, learn to converse with peers, develop a moral and ethical character, and learn how to navigate through society at large. It should be explain that home-schooling depends on familial wealth and could be unfair; The public school allows for all students to be given a fair and equal opportunity at learning what everyone else has to learn: they are given the same holistic experience. Home-schooling seems to have advantages over the public school system, but it can cause a gap in academic performance between the rich and the poor; so the educational system has to ensure fair opportunities for everybody.