English Assignment

Home Schooling

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Home Schooling

Introduction

Homeschooling refers to the teaching of children at home instead of taking them to the public schools for training. The system is accompanied by numerous advantages as well as the disadvantages. It is, however, important to consider both sides of the system and benefits to the child both currently and in the future. The primary purpose of the Paper is to highlight both the advantages and the disadvantages of taking the child through the homeschooling system (Redford, 2016). I believe that homeschooling provides more solutions than the problems facing the students in public schools.

First, homeschooling very flexible and therefore providing for the need to teach the students according to their abilities. It is important to note that different children are characterized by unique learning abilities. The child who grasps concepts quickly can save the time at being taught faster so that they can concentrate on other things and enabling them to specialize early enough. Also, the slow learner can be taught slowly by their tutors and thus provide then with enough time to grasp the content. Additionally, after the child saves time by concentrating on the class work for a very short time, they might consume the rest of the time in their talents and thus develop the child all round without draining their talents and thus become all round. The public schooling mixes all the students in the same class without considering their difference in the abilities and thus demoralizing other while some part of the class feel their time is wasted (Ray, 2015).

Homeschooling is a short cut since the parent can have enough time with the children. The child’s development is highly based on the quality of parenting they receive at their early age of development. In this case, the parents have enough time and therefore, the ability to show their children more love, and train them in the way they want to be in the next generation. It is important also to note that, most parents send their children to public schools, but they still want to follow up and get involved in the education of the child which becomes hectic on the side of the trainers. For example, not all schools are Christian, and the parent would wish the child on the Christian ways, which is then possible only in homeschooling (Phillips, 2014). Additionally, if the child is good in mathematics but poor in English, he is encouraged to major in mathematics and drop the weaker subjects and thus saving time.

In homeschooling, the parent can prepare own time table. It is important to teach the child at the times when they can grasp more (Wenkart, 2014). Additionally, you do not require following the national timetable or the curriculum. The parent has time to observe the child to realize the best time that they can learn for example, from 3 pm to 6 pm, and thus they can fix the lesson at the same time. The rest of the time, the child can concentrate on the things that they love doing. Additionally, the parents can follow the national timetable while training the child later in the days if they wish they enroll to the IGCSE or A level later. But again it will have saved the child the involvement in the many exams along the way. Most of the examinations the children are involved with are not helpful in the long run, but just frustrating.

Conclusion

The advantage of homeschooling is way much as compared to the disadvantages, and in any case, if a parent needs to choose, they must first consider the future and the ambitions of the child. Most of the parents feel the children are passed through a lot of examinations before the age of 15 and therefore, children can be homeschooled and then later, enroll to public schools when they are grown.

References

Phillips, D. C. (2014). Encyclopedia of educational theory and philosophy (Vol. 1). Sage.

Ray, B. D. (2015). Research Facts on Homeschooling. National Home Education Research Institute.

Redford, J. B. (2016). Homeschooling in the United States: 2012. NCES 2016-096. National Center for Education Statistics.

Wenkart, M. (2014). Homeschooling: Useful alternative or damaging deviation. BoD–Books on Demand.