In some countries, parents are choosing to teach children themselves at home instead of sending them to school.
Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?
Opinions are divergent whether homeschooling benefits children or it is a counterproductive method. In spite of some particular upsides, the downside is far more significant.
Advocates of homeschooling espouse that parents can reduce educational payments to the minimum amount. This may sound reasonable because tuition fees can be dispensed with. However, laboratory apparatuses and learning materials for children to thoroughly comprehend the intrinsic nature of science subjects still need to be taken into account. These pieces of equipment would turn out to be prohibitively expensive when purchased for individual use. Furthermore, an additional cost for employing an expert to supervise experimental activities should be included. These days, most parents are occupied with work and lack specialist knowledge on certain disciplines, so they cannot assist homeschooled students carefully as they expect.
Proponents of home education also agree that children would focus more on the personalized learning setting. This could be understood as a variety of distractors are limited to facilitate a desirable learning process. Nonetheless, it often backfires. Learning in a private context means more freedom for the children; therefore, they would turn their attention to leisure and relaxation once parental supervision is unavailable. Surfing the Internet, playing video games, listening or listening to music is a typical instance of the uncontrolled homeschooled children. They, as a result, would fall into stagnation and academic results suffer in the end. Parents’ anger or even family estrangement could also be the negative outcome of the students’ laziness and self-indulgence.
In summary, the idea of students educated at home appear to positively influence them when proposed, but the drawbacks would be enormously exerted from this superficial approach.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, if, may, nonetheless, so, still, therefore, in summary, as a result, in spite of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 24.0651302605 58% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 41.998997996 71% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1608.0 1615.20841683 100% => OK
No of words: 273.0 315.596192385 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.89010989011 5.12529762239 115% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06481385082 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.26750603482 2.80592935109 116% => OK
Unique words: 184.0 176.041082164 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.673992673993 0.561755894193 120% => OK
syllable_count: 508.5 506.74238477 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.9 1.60771543086 118% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.0174791248 49.4020404114 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.5 106.682146367 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.0625 20.7667163134 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0625 7.06120827912 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0973868543285 0.244688304435 40% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0296727239551 0.084324248473 35% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0276438843675 0.0667982634062 41% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.065228453037 0.151304729494 43% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0192088442906 0.056905535591 34% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 13.0946893788 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 28.84 50.2224549098 57% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.5 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.59 12.4159519038 134% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.84 8.58950901804 126% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 78.4519038076 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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