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Home schooling is an alternate system when a child can not attend a regular school due to some valid reason.
To me home schooling is good enough to avoid wastage of time when a learner is unable to attend a regular school. But it can not be considered as a substitute to the regular schooling. Home schooling deprives the child from many benefits of regular schooling. Some of these are:
- Company of fellow students.
- Experiencing to learn from a variety of teachers.
- Sports and other extra curricular activities.
- Confidence building in a competitive environment.
- And many others.
Your assertion is based only false presumptions. In fact, a homeschooled child has more opportunity to socialize with a wider population of people than their brick schooled counterparts. Their peers may indeed pressure them, but the effect of that pressure is diluted by the variety of exposure to more family, friends and neighbors. A homeschooled youth may not see his peers as only being people his age. There is no desperation to fit in to avoid bullying or exclusion. A homeschooled child grows in a loving atmosphere where their authentic self is encouraged and mature role models are not vastly outnumbered by immature role models. Usually such a child or youth has a stronger sense of self and is less interested in the likes and dislikes of others and in "fitting in". The factory like atmosphere that is intentionally present in our current public school system (based on the outdated Prussian system) is set up in such a way as to stamp out individuality. Kids are placed in rows, told when to eat, when to speak, when to void their bowels and what to think. It is a passive way to learn where the student's only task is to receive and accept the information taught to him. That is why I believe peer pressure gets so out of hand and so destructive in public school settings. It is not that the child spends more time socializing. It is that the system itself creates a fertile atmosphere for homogeny. Homeschooling does not train children to be passive receptors who are told what to think and how to dress. It is as versatile as the families that school at home.
I think it's very effective and useful for a lot of students and parents, schools and of course, especially if it is under the supervision of a good teacher in his work.
Good and suitable for many people
I think that school , even if it were weak,teaches kids indirectly some values that are difficult to learn anywhere due to participating with other peers.Just dealing with others is one of them.
