Home-schooling can be a safe alternative to normative schooling. For decades, across the country, there is an abundance of statistical data demonstrating that national averages including tests scores, frequency of student suspension, and occurrence of school violence are all on the rise. While it is true that not all schools are prone to or experience excessive violence, it can be argued that overall, the school environment is less safe and demonstrates less clarity or alignment with clear codes of ethics and morals. My Attitude:

When choosing to pursue home-schooling over that of the normative educational experience, parents take back a substantial amount of responsibility in the raising of their children. Children spend a great deal of their young lives in school. Therefore the experiences and the lessons they have during school weigh heavily upon the type of people they grow into. When children are home-schooled, those experiences and impressions can be more centered in the home, family, religion, and spirituality. If parents in pairs or in groups, have the opportunity to home school their children, it is an optimal choice.

My Purpose:

To demonstrate that with home-schooling there is an element of spirituality that permeates throughout the entire experience of education, and not just as a topic or subject in school. Spirituality then become ingrained throughout the entire education experience, with a deeper influence or impact upon the children's lives. In these ways, home-schooled children are not exposed to as much false doctrine and lead lives that are grounded in Christian doctrine.

How much does my audience know about my subject?
The audience is not illiterate, but the audience probably only has a layman's knowledge regarding home-school's existence and home-school practices.

2. Age? Gender? Race? Social Status? Location? Religion?

The audience likely consists of young adults to adults that were still within appropriate age to rear children. The audience may also include older adults such as grandparents or older aunts, uncles, and godparents who have to take secondary custody of school-aged children.

3. Where does my audience stand on the issue; are they Opposed or Neutral?

I would think that the portion of the audience has little knowledge on the subject and therefore little opinion, making them neutral and open to discussion. There would also likely be a significant portion of the audience that would be opposed because the classroom experience is the normative, mainstream experience. Therefore, there should be a significant portion of the audience that had has the very experience that the paper opposes, making them in…