Tampilkan postingan dengan label different learning styles. Tampilkan semua postingan
Tampilkan postingan dengan label different learning styles. Tampilkan semua postingan

Is Home Schooling For You? Reasons Why Parents Home School

Think back to a time when you experienced emotional pain or unresolved anger while at school as a youngster. As you look back do you wonder if your parents should have home schooled you? There are many reasons parents home school their children. This article will discuss some of the reasons children are home schooled.

Parents who teach their children at home tend to fall into two main categories:

1. Those who prefer to home school their children.
2. Those who want an alternative to the existing school system.

Those who prefer to home school their children.

o Some parents prefer to home school their kids to provide their children with a
different style of education.
o Other parents after having been involved with their children's education at preschool find they have the confidence to continue with the educating of their children at home.
o Some parents' alternative values believe their child's learning and development would be better supported through home schooling.

Those who want an alternative to the existing school system.

Parents in this category will educate their children at home for a number of reasons.

o Children may have health issues or special needs.
o Bullying of their children , a serious problem in our schools, will drive some parents to home school their kids.
o There are children with different learning styles who parents feel would gain more from being taught at home.
o Parents with children possessing special talents or gifted abilities will see homeschooling as the better of two options.
o Unfortunately in our existing system of education some students have for one of more reasons not been able to fit in or conform to the way of life offered in a school setting. In many cases some of these students have been suspended or expelled from the school. The parents have seen no other option but to begin home schooling.

Home School Your Children?

More and more parents are choosing to home school their children. They do so for a variety of reasons. Some feel they can give their children a better education at home, that the uniform teaching methods required for classes of 30 or 40 students do not sufficiently account for each student’s different learning styles and aptitudes.

Others home school for religious reasons, preferring to include religious information in the curriculum, which is not found in public schools. Still others prefer to inform their children about various education topics from their own point of view, rather than what they would receive in public schools. Some parents may be choosing home schooling because they fear for their children’s safety. We do hear many reports of violence in our schools.

Obviously, home schooling is not new. Public schools are really the new kid on the block. According to Patrick Farenga, in his article “A Brief History of Homeschooling,” compulsory education, as we know it, is less than 200 years old. He points out that education used to be handled by parents, the church and the occasional tutor for special subjects. He also mentions that education was intentionally left up to parents by our founding fathers. There is no mention of it in the Declaration, Bill of Rights or the Constitution of the United States.

Farenga dates the current trend toward home schooling from the 1970’s, particularly from a book called “Deschooling Society,” written by Ivan Illich that year. You can find his article at www.hsc.org [http://www.hsc.org/professionals/briefhistory.php], which features many, such articles and resources for home schooling. There is also a page of home schooling jokes. Some of them are hilarious.

If you are considering home schooling your own children, you can find many more resources on the web. There are articles, curriculums, stories from other parents, textbook recommendations, school projects, and more. Home schooling families usually interact with other home schooling families so that children do get social time with other children. They may get together to put on a play, practice music or learn a sport.

It seems like there is a good chance that home schooling is a trend that will only increase over the coming years. Check hslda.org for information on home schooling laws in your home st