Week 8: Checkpoint - Improving Clarity

Original:  The parental involvement even goes much deeper than as Romanowski noted above "that is the essence of home schooling" because home schooling fundamentally alters the parental role.

Revised:  The parental involvement even goes much deeper because home schooling fundamentally alters the parental role.

Original:  It makes the parent much more active, and thus greatly intertwined in the parents personal goals and priorities, that cannot be equally outside of the home.

Revised:  Home schooling gets the parent much more personally involved in the child's education that is simply not possible within the traditional educational system.

Original:  Traditional education focuses on raw memorization and learning of facts through primarily a very structured text based curriculum.

Revised:  Traditional education focuses on raw memorization and learning of facts primarily through a very structured, text based curriculum.

Original:  Furthermore, do the lack of a set structure in the home school system is allows for the teacher and student to pursue additional interests.

Revised:  Furthermore, the lack of a strict structure within the home school system allows the student to pursue additional interests.

Original:  Ultimately it is that type of focus on education that is destructive long term, and impedes a pushing to do something that they really enjoy.

Revised:  Ultimately the grades based success damages the student as it rewards them for pursuing what is easy rather than what they truly enjoy.


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