Тема: домашнее образование (home schooling).
Today there are more
and more options for a child to get education. Gone are the days when all
children were taught in a four-walled classroom with desks and the blackboard. Educational
techniques, methods, and strategies have been discovered after
experimentations, observations, and studies made by professionals in this field
all over the world. With the advanced curriculum, new inventions and
innovations to education, there is a need for an alternate way to get these
across to children. In addition, the society today has evolved into producing
some obstacles for a normal education; hence, parents are afraid to send their
kids to a normal school. However, there are still advantages to normal
schooling, leaving way to standard educational programmes.
Home schooling
can technically be the same as distance learning where both processes of
acquiring knowledge foresee the students are situated in their homes, not in a
school setting. However, there’s a significant difference between those. Otherwise
known as home education or home learning, this system is defined as the
education of children in the home by parents. History tells us that before the
law on compulsory school attendance was mandated, the majority of early
education happened within the family. Those who can afford to send their kids
to a special school or hire private tutors or governesses experience how other
people are teaching it. However, as years progressed up to the present most of
the children are sent to school and get a formal education in either a public
school or private educational institutions.
In developed and
developing countries, home schooling is now an option for parents who do not
want to send their children to school but would want them to be educated using
a different way away from schools. Parents have their own personal reasons for
deciding such. It could be dissatisfaction with school instructions, avoiding
the chances of their kids to be bullied or hurt in school that makes parents
lead their kids away from schools. Another reason for non-attendance in school
for some children is the distance of the school from their homes as in the case
of some rural and mountainous areas. In addition, parent and guardians decide
to educate their children home-based style for many reasons rather than those
already mentioned:
Parents
believe children are better educated at home,
For
religious reasons, parents do not want to mix their children with
different beliefs,
Some
schools have low standard environment or it is not conducive for learning,
Child
has special need or disability thus curtailing or making it difficult for
him to move about.
There are a lot
of misconceptions around home schooling. First, parents think that they have to
be professionals like having a degree to be able to teach their children in a
home school setting. There is really no mandated requirement for parents to
have a formal education to be able to assist children in home schooling.
However, parents or guardians must show their all-out support and willingness
to go through the rigors and challenges of home schooling.
Basically, the
social impact of home schooling seems to be used by the government education
system to stop kids from leaving school. Monetary budget will obviously be lost
to them. On the other hand, not all kids and parents would want home schooling
for some reasons aside from academic. Financial status is a significant element
to consider as well.
In the end, it
is still the decision of the family, particularly the parents and the
school-age child whether home schooling is a better alternative. Communication
is still the best tool since parents must not force home schooling to their
kids.
Taking time to
persuade and talk to children would be necessary. Listening to children's ideas
would show them how much you value their education. Still, getting an education
is what this is all about. No matter what kind of instruction and the manner of
how it is administered, educational instruction must be present. The important
thing is the willingness of the children to learn by means that would benefit
them, the family, and the society as a whole.