Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents are the best teachers. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

These days, homeschooling is becoming a more and more popular alternative to traditional learning methods and many

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believe that they can do a better job than professional educators. Personally, though, I do not feel that

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are the best

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. I feel

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way for two reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.

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of all,

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are biased when it comes to their own

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. To be specific, most

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think that their

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are the smartest kids in the world.

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, they often teach them at an inappropriately quick pace and mistakenly assume that they will be able to keep up. Over the course of an entire

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can have serious consequences. An old friend of mine is a compelling example of

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. Rather than attending his local public

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, my friend was taught at home by his mother. His mother had good intentions, but she failed completely at teaching him math. She made the assumption that her

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was able to grasp basic concepts right away and moved on immediately to advanced lessons that were above what he would have been learning at the public

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. When it came time for my friend to take the annual state-mandated competency tests, he was wholly unprepared and he shocked his mom by earning a failing grade.

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example demonstrates that

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are not always the best

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.

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,

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are not aware of modern teaching methods, and

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use antiquated and ineffective methods to educate their

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.

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have

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at increasingly advanced ages nowadays and when it comes time to teach them, they have been out of

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for ten or twenty years. Professional

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, have time for professional development every year of their careers and work in a collaborative environment where older

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are kept up to date by their younger colleagues.

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means that trained

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excel at teaching youngsters of all backgrounds, while

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struggle to educate even their own

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. While my friend’s mother eventually overcame her difficulty teaching math to her

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year she had a lot of trouble motivating him to keep up with his language lessons. She was proactive, though, and sought help from her local

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board. The officials at the board put her in touch with a young teacher from a nearby elementary

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. He showed her how to use the Internet to help her

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find foreign-language resources more suited to his specific interests. Until she got help from that young teacher, she had no idea that the Internet included a wealth of videos, music and games that she could utilize with her

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. In conclusion, I strongly disagree with the idea that

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are the best

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.

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is because

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are biased when it comes to their kids and because professional

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benefit from modern techniques and training.