Blog #3 rhetorical analysis

The Change of educational perspective has been raising homeschooling parents in a few years. This unconventional choice are coming from the belief that they can provide what is needed for a growing child such as a piano, sewing, or gardening by spending on them as much as possible. Parents want their children not to be stressed out from an undue burden and to do whatever they are really interested.  Homeschooling parents also feel certain that their children are out in the world enough to interact with all sorts of people because of “forever style of parenting.”

 

(1) Narration : based on narrator’s experience and dialogue with concerned person, tell why urban parents are turning to DIY education and what is pros and cons

Example : Several homeschooling moms would first tell me, …
I calculated what we’d have to give up if I cut back on work (though some homeschooling moms work full time or at least occasionally—like Tera, who writes parenting articles).

(2) Dialogue & quotation : to show homeschooler’s perception of homeschooling

Example : “I had some of my closest friends and relatives telling me I was ruining my children’s lives.” Now, she says, “the parents that I meet aren’t afraid to talk about it. They’re doing this proudly,” or “My kids actually have to tell me to stop,”

(3) Contrast : contrasts between DIY education and conventional school

Example : Many of these parents feel that city schools—or any schools—don’t provide the kind of education they want for their kids. Just as much, though, their choice to homeschool is a more extreme example of a larger modern parenting ethos: that children are individuals, each deserving a uniquely curated upbringing.

(4) Symbol : listed examples show the atmosphere they have; feature of normal class, tight and enmeshed characteristic, pros and cons,

Example : rows of desks , exhausted leftovers , student-teacher ratio is 1–1.

(5) Simile : get reader meaning more easily what mundane thing is

Example : kids have learned to find an academic lesson in something as mundane as the construction of a roller-rink floor

 

Education is very sensitive matter because it will affect directly on from the near future to distant future and as technology in various field has developed, the distance between people are arising these days. So I am wondering how the homeschooling is now proceeding and what is the limitation of homeschooling. At the end of the article, the writer raises the limitation of “attachment parenting,” that is family income and homeschooler’s characteristic.