In some countries, there has been an increase in the number if parents choosing to self-educate their children at home rather than sending them to school. Do the advantages of home education outweigh the disadvantages?
In recent years, there is an increasing trend in some parts of the world that more and more families decide to educate their children at home rather than let them attend school. I am of the view that this issue has more shortcomings than benefits and in this essay I will take a closer look at this trend.
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To begin with, some parents choose home education because of the indisputable advantages that come along with home schooling. One of the merits is the relationship among family members could be enhanced due to the increased interaction between siblings and parents. Each member would have their own experiences and stories, and through lecturing as well as talking the family bond would be unbreakable. Another noticeable benefit is self- education at home could save a small to a large sum of money because educational expenses wouldn't have to be paid.
However, home schooling would lack the qualification of the knowledge and also the certification, and un qualified parents and family members. Those problems may lead to misunderstanding and wrong information for the children. Secondly, children are lectured mostly at home so the massive amount of time they just be somewhere around the house, which is also attributed to problems of social interactions; they lack communication with all their peers as well as chance to get to know others' experiences, which through that individual could learn many soft skills when they are in society. Lastly, home education could take up most of the parents' time; parents must pay full of their attention and sacrifice their past time to concentrate on lecturing their children.
In conclusion, teaching your kids at home could have both pros and cons. Personally, I believe the demerits of homeschooling outweigh the merits, which is the lack of qualified knowledge as well s social communications and constitute massive amount of parents' time.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 307, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
... will take a closer look at this trend. . To begin with, some parents choose hom...
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Line 3, column 36, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to home'
Suggestion: to home
... . To begin with, some parents choose home education because of the indisputable a...
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Line 3, column 529, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wouldn't
...m of money because educational expenses wouldnt have to be paid. However, home schoo...
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Line 5, column 714, Rule ID: PAST_TIME[1]
Message: Did you mean 'pastime'?
Suggestion: pastime
... of their attention and sacrifice their past time to concentrate on lecturing their child...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, lastly, look, may, second, secondly, so, well, in conclusion, as well as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1595.0 1615.20841683 99% => OK
No of words: 311.0 315.596192385 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12861736334 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19942759058 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88192003705 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 176.041082164 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.578778135048 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 486.9 506.74238477 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 70.299508059 49.4020404114 142% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.916666667 106.682146367 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.9166666667 20.7667163134 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.25 7.06120827912 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => 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: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.35276292825 0.244688304435 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.123276496877 0.084324248473 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.106852978033 0.0667982634062 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.195469254365 0.151304729494 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0622325225977 0.056905535591 109% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 13.0946893788 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 50.2224549098 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.3001002004 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.77 12.4159519038 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.18 8.58950901804 95% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 78.4519038076 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 9.78957915832 143% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 307, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
... will take a closer look at this trend. . To begin with, some parents choose hom...
^^
Line 3, column 36, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to home'
Suggestion: to home
... . To begin with, some parents choose home education because of the indisputable a...
^^^^
Line 3, column 529, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wouldn't
...m of money because educational expenses wouldnt have to be paid. However, home schoo...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 714, Rule ID: PAST_TIME[1]
Message: Did you mean 'pastime'?
Suggestion: pastime
... of their attention and sacrifice their past time to concentrate on lecturing their child...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, lastly, look, may, second, secondly, so, well, in conclusion, as well as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1595.0 1615.20841683 99% => OK
No of words: 311.0 315.596192385 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12861736334 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19942759058 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88192003705 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 176.041082164 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.578778135048 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 486.9 506.74238477 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 70.299508059 49.4020404114 142% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.916666667 106.682146367 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.9166666667 20.7667163134 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.25 7.06120827912 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => 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: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.35276292825 0.244688304435 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.123276496877 0.084324248473 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.106852978033 0.0667982634062 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.195469254365 0.151304729494 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0622325225977 0.056905535591 109% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 13.0946893788 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 50.2224549098 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.3001002004 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.77 12.4159519038 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.18 8.58950901804 95% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 78.4519038076 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 9.78957915832 143% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.