HOME SCHOOL
VS
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
It has been a hot topic over the last few years, which is best? Public schools, or home schooling? As student teachers, we think both have positive and negative results. Although we would have to go with public schools. Children need to develop social skills. This is very hard when you are home schooling your child. We have seen kids in the past who were home schooled in grade 1 to grade 7. They then join a public school and just don't seem to adapt. They have few friends, if any. They do not know how to behave or react normal in class. They tend to be loners and seek for approval. They don't necessarily do bad in school work, but has a lack of social skills, which form a crucial part of children.
The other problem with home schooling, is a parent really qualified to teach grade 10 to 12 mathematics, biology and science?
The other problem with home schooling, is a parent really qualified to teach grade 10 to 12 mathematics, biology and science?
Linda said ...
ReplyDeleteIsolation v communication. I have recently met three sisters that are currently undergoing home schooling. I probably have to add that they are living abroad and cannot speak the country's native language and this is why they are being home schooled. Although they can interact with each other, they have never learned how to tolerate other people. I use the word "tolerate" rather than "social skills", because I believe it is a skill not to be taught. I know many students who have gone to public schools and still lack the ability to talk to other people and voice their own opinions. Something I cannot deny is the fact that the parents are not qualified to teach school subjects - as I observed from the three sisters. Although most parents are highly educated at some stage the student will surpass the parent and the child is left to his or her own devices.
Ardelle said ...
ReplyDeleteI totally agree that public schooling is better than home schooling. I think it is possible to home school your children up to grade 7, and you as a parent can give special attention to your own child, to build a stable ground floor for further studies, but thereafter you as a parent is just not specially educated to teach your children. Then again if your child is going to a secondary school you will have a problem with the socialising skills between the children. Therefore why not give your child the best of both worlds, let them attend a public school and then you as a parent be actively involve with your child’s homework.
Mariette said ...
ReplyDeleteThere are pros and cons to each option.
In a public school children learn more about how to work together in a group, and learn how to communicate and be competitive with people their own age and I think children that do home school, are "small grown up's". The teacher that are normally the child's mother, are not always educated to teach. But on the other hand children in public schools are pressured to wear the "right" clothes, be part of the "right" gang and need to do the "right" things. Normally there are about twenty or thirty children in a class room and the educated teacher can't give each child the right attention that they deserve.