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Home Schooling In Missouri

Connie Thomeczek

University of Phoenix

MTE/516

01-10-2023
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Home Schooling in Missouri

The decision to homeschool usually comes after a negative experience in another

educational environment or due to medical issues and the decision to bring the child home to

learn is not always an easy one. Some of the benefits of home schooling would be no bullying

and less likely to be subjected to some of the harsh bullying that is occurring in schools. It can

also bring the family together more and Leo less likely to be faced with sensitive or mature

topics they may be exposed to in public school. Flexibility is also a great benefit if you are a

traveling family as this lets you make your own schedule.

Qualifications

The primary qualifications for a career as a homeschool teacher are a valid state license and

an expertise in the subjects you plan to teach if not elementary. Homeschool teachers must

frequently pass a criminal background investigation. Homeschool teachers rarely work with

more than one or two students at a time and don't have to follow a classroom schedule, which

makes it easier to adjust lesson plans and provide personal attention to a student's unique needs.

Occasionally, homeschool teachers work with students who have unique or individual needs

such as disabilities.

Funding and History

Education is today largely paid for and almost entirely administered by governmental

bodies or non-profit institutions. The same instance goes for home schooling. Modern

homeschooling began in the 1970s with a dual impetus, one group “fervently religious and …

the rest might best be characterized as the philosophical heirs of Jean-Jacques Rousseau”

(Guterson, 1992). 2 Based on fieldwork, sociologists Van Galen (1991) and Stevens (2001)

distinguished between these groups. The essential motive for “fervently religious” evangelical
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Protestants (frequently Baptists or Pentecostals) is a belief that local schools teach a curriculum

objectionable to their fundamentalist religion. I feel that the public view of home schooling is

based more on the religious type, such as people that have different views from theirs. While

religion is a big part of why most homeschool started, this is not the only reason. Other factors

could range from disability or the idea that the curriculum being taught is not to their beliefs.

Numerous people home school for different reasons. I was faced with this decision this year and

it is a very hard one to make. 

Accountability

   Home schooling is held accountable in numerous ways such as keeping track of work

samples of the child, keeping a record of periodic assessments and having documentation

showing a thousand hours of instruction during the school term that you set. with those 1000

hours, 600 of them have to be in core subjects such as math, reading and writing, while the other

400 can be in the electives. The law does require some documentation of that so the best

practice would be to keep a daily log of the child’s curriculum. 

Technology. Home schooling is very much into technology as it is based on computer

work now so everything is a digital footprint. While records are still kept most of the curriculum

is done online and tracked by progress in the end. This is not much different than our public

school as they do electronic work but not fully like home schooling.

Conclusion

While all schools rather it be public, home, charter, private or online, they all benefit

greatly to different needs of the student. Rather it was a bad experience or the flexibility of the

schedule, all these schools will help your child in different ways. Technology is based in all
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types of schooling and having the world at your fingertips can be a great benefit. 
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References

The homeschool environment. (2022).

https://www.calverteducation.com/should-i-homeschool/the-homeschool-environment-is-it-right-
for-your-child

Omoniyi, Shanxi (2022, July). Midwest parent educators. Understanding homeschool laws in
missouri, (), . https://midwesthomeschoolers.org/homeschool-laws-missouri/

Van Galen, J. A. (1988). Ideology, curriculum, and pedagogy in home education. Education and
urban society, 21(1), 52-68.

Isenberg, E. J. (2007). What have we learned about homeschooling?. Peabody Journal of

Education, 82(2-3), 387-409.