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:

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.