After reading this chapter, I learned a lot that I didn’t know about other ways people are learning. I never realized how many students are home schooled. I do believe that students who are home schooled score significantly better on standardized tests. When you are home schooled, you are usually only one of a couple who may be home schooled, depending on if you have siblings who are also home schooled. This means that you aren’t in a class with 20 or more other students and you can move at your own pace. In middle school, I had a friend that was home schooled and she actually graduated 3 years earlier than students her same age.
I think a lot of these new ways of learning are very important. As adults, we should always continue to learn and keep our brains active and working. Adult education, distance learning, and workplace learning are all a great way for adults to learn something new and something that interests them. Schools may not be able to allow everyone to learn just what they are interested in, but these other ways of learning can allow you to do that when the timing is right for the individual. I don't feel that these new seeds of learning will hurt public schools and their intentions, I think they are here to strengthen citizens and allow them more opportunities to learn and allow individuals to learn in a way that works best for them and what interests them.
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