I'm not a particularly big fan of homeschooling. School is for learning, yes, but students learn far more from being in school than from the teacher's teaching them. Children learn to socialize outside of their family within school. School is where children have to learn to work with people that aren't friends or family. It's the time when they learn how to deal with authority figures who aren't family. It's when they learn the appropriateness of things at certain times. This manner of socializing our children is extremely important to their development. It's not something a parent or a private tutor can teach alone. As children grow, their social systems complicate. If a child misses the early developments of this it can become extremely hard for them to get back into it. It's like teaching a child addition for 4 years and then putting them in a calculus class. They're so far behind that it's nearly impossible to catch them up. Parents often overlook the social development of a child in favor of a purely informational education. However, social skills are exceedingly important in life and in many cases can be more important than what you know. And of course, this is not even to mention the pitfalls parents can fall into trying to get a proper curriculum without pushing their own personal beliefs onto their children.

Hi, as a teacher I think that homeschooling works for people with very large families if a parent is able to follow a syllabus or if a child has been bullied at school. There are many homeschooling groups who meet for excursions and social reasons in Australia. The disadvantage of course is not being with other peers during the day and therefore missing out on making contacts for later in life. Others would be a lack of access to technology for some subjects and a lack of time management skills for some students.

advantage is you can brainwash your own children, rather than allow them to be brainwashed by others.

Hi... and also children need to meet the real authority!

Hi... yes I think it is a temporary position or must be mixed with the traditional school... a big disadvantage would be the social side of it!