Thought on Home Schooling.
November 1st, 2009 by Owen JonesHome schooling or homeschooling, if you want (in deed, you even see it hyphenated, as in home-schooling) has been popular for about 30 years now, although, of course it was all pupils had before state involvement in education. Out of the way thinly-populated places in huge countries like the USA, Canada and Australia still have to rely on home schooling to a large degree, although it is easier now with the popularization of radio, television and the Internet. Video packages also have an essential role, as do books still.
Nevertheless, home schooling has become very much in demand in the cities as an alternative to urban public schools, which are frequently seen as hotbeds of upheaval, violence and narcotics, especially by the middle classes and not without some valid cause, to be fair. Nonetheless, there are also other good reasons for choosing home schooling, which we will go into at a later stage.
First, it must be pointed out that the decision to go for home schooling has to be a family one. This is because it will turn "normal family life" on its head and place an added monetary strain on the family purse. For instance, one parent will have to cease working. This cannot be allowed to be a cause of resentment, or both parents could take part-time employment and share the children's educational time. Whichever way you decide, you will not have two full-time incomes any longer. Working from home on the Internet could be a partial solution here.
Home schooling will also disrupt everyone's social life. So, the parents' social life is restricted by not seeing work colleagues every day, but so is little Johnny's, particularly if he has already spent some time in a normal classroom. He won't see his pals from class as much and they may drift away from him or even be angry with him.
On the positive side is that the family will become much more solid as a unit by studying together at home schooling. Both parents will have a thorough knowledge of what their child is learning and will be learning. While following a broad-spectrum education, you may however opt to focus on aspects of, say, history or science, that especially interest your child. It gives you the freedom to tailor your child's education to his or her particular interests, something that state education cannot do well with over-sized classes. Your child will also come less under the influence of the bawdier pupils in school and be able to concentrate more on studying.
A note of caution may be useful at this point. Do not be tempted to compel your child to learn too rapidly. It is tempting for a non-professional teacher-cum-proud parent in home schooling to push the child much harder than he can go. Remember that most people are only average. You must be on look out for signs of burn-out and bad feeling at all times.
Once you decide to go for home schooling, you will need to choose a basic curriculum, run through it yourself to familiarize yourself with it, buy or locate in the library any supplementary books, videos and software, write a lot of notes and stock up on pens and paper, folders, binders and filing cabinets and you're ready for your first term at home schooling.
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