There are many academic benefits and disadvantages of homeschooling. This article will help you determine what the positive and negative aspects of homeschooling are.
What are
the Advantages and Disadvantages of Homeschooling?
Homeschooling has many benefits such as flexibility in schedule,
freedom in the curriculum, physical and emotional safety, and educational
efficiency, and opportunities, etc.
There are also some downsides to homeschooling such as Time-consuming, the
lack of resources, lack of socialization with peers, and a lack of parental
patience.
If you want
to know the pros and cons of homeschooling, this article is just for you.
What is Homeschooling?
Homeschooling is educating a child outside
of the public or private school environment.
Homeschooling is very simply a curriculum for the child at home without
having to go to school.
Homeschooling
is legal in several parts of the world, including the United Kingdom, the
United States, and other countries.
The
countries that recognize homeschool laws and requirements for home learners to
obtain certificates that would later qualify them for university education, by
conducting standard tests for home learners determined by the educational
authorities concerned.
Before
the public education system began, people were often taught at home by parents
or professional teachers.
Public
schools and private schools have become the norm these days, but there are
still people who prefer homeschooling to the modern education system.
Initially,
homeschooling was considered a good way of learning for children with
disabilities and health problems, but now more and more parents are choosing
this type of education for their healthy children. In "homeschooling"
there are a number of advantages and disadvantages.
Benefits
and Disadvantages of Homeschooling for Students
Educating
a child at home has become a popular thing nowadays. Due to the development of
the Internet and the emergence of a variety of electronic benefits, homeschooling
can be compared in terms of quality with the school, although it has advantages
and disadvantages.
What are the Advantages of Homeschooling?
There are many advantages of homeschooling such as flexibility in
schedule, freedom in the curriculum, efficient and effective learning, physical
and emotional safety, saving money and living a unique lifestyle, etc.
Believe it or not, although homeschooling is considered an alternative
form of education, it is one of the oldest forms of education in the world.
Benefits of Homeschooling
The
benefits of homeschooling can be explained according to the following
illustration:
Homeschooling
is characterized by great academic flexibility that traditional schools lack in
terms of the flexibility of the teaching style, the flexibility of time, and
curriculum adaptation to the student's abilities and preferences.
If your child goes to public school, you definitely need an early alarm every day! There
is a race against time every morning to try to get your child to school in time.
In the midst of this mess, a child may sometimes miss breakfast, which is the
most important meal of the day.
You can
choose to homeschool, and you won't have to run into the crazy morning ritual. Mornings
will be more relaxing, and you will be able to change study or playtimes
according to your child or your comfort.
However,
it is recommended that you have a daily schedule that you try to adhere to
teach your child discipline. You can change schedules weekly, biweekly, or
monthly.
Homeschooling
allows a child to spend more time with his family, to get to know each other
better.
Spending
quality time with your child is also one of the best ways to teach him ethics,
social or general behaviors, and personal boundaries.
The
child's presence in his natural and familiar environment enhances his natural
and innate desire to gain new experiences.
Homeschooling
helps protect your child from harmful social elements to some extent. Besides,
it helps you avoid the anxiety of sending your child to school on bad weather
days.
Homeschooling
reduces the chances of children entering into bad friendships and acquiring
deviant behaviors and it helps parents to give their children the necessary
knowledge about sensitive matters such as gender, religion, or others without
their ideas being contaminated with the prevailing myths that teachers transmit
to students or students to each other.
Homeschooling
protects children from bullying, abuse, and delinquency, as well as protects
them from violence practiced by teachers verbally and physically and provides
them with a real human environment.
Children who go to school need good grades to transfer to higher grades.
The competition encourages them to perform better than others in order to get more
grades to reach the leading universities. However, while students learn the
lesson, the learning may not be sufficiently knowledge-oriented.
In the
case of homeschooling, the absence of competition encourages the child and the
parent to focus on learning for the sake of knowledge and application.
Self-education
is based on understanding, experimentation, and testing, of course, and is based
on enhancing the educational experience through constant observation, while
traditional schools make the learning process an experience linked to school
attendance and homework.
Parents
can, through homeschooling, notice their children's cognitive development and
growth more, and parents also have the opportunity to build the value system
for their children in a planned manner.
Homeschooling
makes social choices for children better, because they deal with different
levels and styles of people in terms of age groups or personalities, while
school education imposes an environment of one color.
Homeschooling
enhances children's self-confidence and develops in them a sense of responsibility
and a self-desire to learn.
In many
countries, a good education in a good school is very expensive and learning in
free or semi-free schools can be a bad option.
Disadvantages of Homeschooling for Students
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Homeschooling may be better than the public school in some ways, but it is not the same for everyone. There are many negatives to homeschooling that you have to consider.
Time-consuming: The education of school-aged children at home requires allocating a long time that parents spend with their children. Much commitment is required from a parent as one has to spend a lot of time planning the curriculum and schedule.
Therefore, this may be challenging if there are multiple children in the family or if it is a working parent who takes the responsibility of educating the child at home.
We
do not exaggerate if we say that many parents are happy that their children are
absent from home for a few hours in school.
Not every parent is able to homeschool: the choice of homeschooling is not an ordinary option, it is a fateful decision that must be made by parents who are able to shoulder its responsibility.
If the parents are not able to satisfy
their child's curiosity, give him the necessary sciences and organize his life
according to the home education plan,, it is better to send him to school.
Financial restrictions: Homeschooling
carries an additional cost for parents in terms of securing various educational
means, including books, stationery, and others, which schools may provide at a
lower cost, and giving the child more time may affect the family's income
significantly.
Legal
challenges: In the United States of America, homeschooling is recognized
in all states, and a student who has not entered school can enter the
university through standardized tests, but in other countries, those who
received home education are considered by virtue of a school dropout and are
not entitled to obtain recognized academic certificates.
Lack of social interaction: If parents are unable to manage the social relationships of their home-educated child, he may face great difficulties at the level of friendships and social stability.
Most schools refuse to join a child who is not students to public activities such as trips or sporting activities, etc.
In
this case, parents must join self-education societies that give the child a
community parallel to the school community in terms of recreational activities
apart from the educational process.
Loss of
experiences: Certain skills such as sharing, cooperation and collaboration, and
the proper way to interact in a group can only be learned through a group
learning setup.
There are
some experiences only school life can offer such as bonding between a child and
a teacher, making friends, maintaining a friendship, reading marathons in
libraries, the field trips with the friend, being a part of school sports, and
much more.
Lack
of Energy and Motivation: Despite the role of self-education in stimulating
responsibility for children, it sometimes lacks the motivation that students
get in school due to the lack of group competition.
Limited Education: Homeschooling may lead to adverse
consequences if its goal is to mold the child. Parents who want to teach their
children a purely religious education may oppress the child by depriving him of
other sciences and discouraging his talents, so the goal of homeschooling is to
develop a curriculum that is adapted to the student and not the other way
around.
It is
common for the homeschooling stage to end upon entering the university, and
students may find it difficult to adapt to university education, especially in
universities that still follow the traditional educational systems based on
memorization and indoctrination.
Conclusion
The idea
of homeschooling still seems strange to our Indian society, but in America, the
demand for homeschooling is increasing by about 15% annually.
Nevertheless,
we will find supporters of self-education saying "homeschooling is not for
everyone," because the responsibility that homeschooling places on
children and parents is greater than the likelihood of many.
Homeschooling
requires a level of knowledge, culture, balance, and a level of material
well-being as well.
Some also believe that it is possible to achieve the benefits of homeschooling in parallel with schooling, so share your views on self-education at home.