Home Schooling Persuasive Speeches

I first watched the home schooling pro video from chapter 15. I was surprised by the reasoning behind this speech. She said that public school is like a “prison” and is a place of violence that many people choose to keep their kids away from. I think these arguments may be a little exaggerated. The speaker used appeals to logic and emotion. She gave statistics that talked about how many more hours home school students actually spend learning in a single year. She used example of safety needs for her emotional appeal. The speaker connected with the audience because the topic is something that we all are familiar with. We all went to school. But she is asking you to consider a different option than the one many of us had. She had a good use of facts and statistics that could be helpful in my speech. In the home schooling con video, I was a more in agreement with what the speaker was saying. Something that I found helpful in this speech was that he would ask a question to the audience and then immediately give a reasonable answer to it. This was effective. He used appeals to emotion and to logic also. He talked about how we do not have the tools necessary at home to provide an adequate education. For an emotional appeal, he talked about how students need the classroom setting for self-actualization.