Wednesday, 3 December 2014

Home Education - Why Teach children at home?




Home Education is a chance for parents to teach their children in the privacy of their chosen location and teach their children themselves or hired professionals instead of allowing their children to be taught in schools.

According to Wales.gov.uk, 'It is not home tuition provided by a local education authority or where a local education authority provides education'.This showcases the meaning of Home Schooling. It’s not as popular as it used to be many years ago, but nonetheless, it's obviously still popular.

According to Oxbridgeessays (2011) the statistics of home schooling, currently lie between 50,000 and somewhere into the 80,000 figure. These are big statistics, which show that it’s still happening, a lot more than you’d think. The same website, tells us that the 'UK law actually makes it remarkably easier to choose home school children than in many other countries across the world’. It’s a well-known fact that in some countries, it’s actually not possible for children to be home schooled, this makes us lucky to have such an opportunity.
Home schooling has a lot of different disadvantages some include:

1) Parents have the big responsibility of making time for everything that their lives would normally involve and have to add in the stresses of organising and planning the learning schedule.

2) They have to pay for the exams that their children require in order to complete their learning.

3) There are a lot of worries when it comes to the question of ‘Am I teaching my children the correct things and am I doing a good job?’

4) There is no guarantee that the quality of teaching will be higher than a school’s teaching ways.

5) It is a controversial context of learning that not everyone will agree with or see advantages of.

6) Children don't necessarily have that easy experience of a social life, they have to arrange to meet with their friends which can be daunting for the child. (Netmums, 2014)

7) Home Education can dramatically reduce the child's access to specialist teaching that they would receive in school (sheknows, 2011)

It's clear to see from these that the advantages are far greater:
  • Choose the ways in which their children learn.
  • No continual tests if they are not wanted.
  • More time to get through crucial subjects.
  • Don’t have to stick to the National Curriculum.
  • Does not have to be a lonely experience (as it is thought to be) and regularly take trips out to educational places and be with other home schooled children.
  • Cultural, educational, social and financial matters are avoided.
  • Children are away from the competitiveness that education is becoming more and more of, by each academic year.
  • Children learn life skills such as; motivational, life skills, independent learning, problem solving and others.
  • Online aids can help with the day to day teaching.
(Netmums, 2014)

I think Home education is a great thing for some people, but I will always think that mainstream schools will always be the right path for children. 


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