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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Home Schooling

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Home schooling is an alternative way to educate our kids besides sending them to public school so that they can study at home. This kind of education has been chosen by many people around the world. Nowadays home schooling becomes popular around the society with a growth rate of 7 to 15 percent per year. The practice is legal in most countries but the extent to which it is practiced varies. However homeschooling has some advantages and disadvantages.

As we know there are many advantages of home schooling. The home is an ideal learning environment. It is provides silence condition so that the children will get more focus with the lesson. The teacher also can give them more attention and will teach them until they understand the lesson. The home also lacks the many distractions and disadvantages of schools: peer pressure, social stigma attached to achievement, bullying, show-offs and general rowdiness. Besides, home schooling allows parents and children to work out a schedule that will best work for the child. Other advantages are flexibility in time and curriculum so that parents can set the curriculum around vacation, illnesses, and other surprise event, and home schooling involves good community involvement and social interaction.

On the other hand, children who follow home schooling become spoiled, they always want what they need completed. Homeschooling needs a lot of time in preparation and delivery. It also takes a huge charge. The children are lack of socialization because they spend most of his time in home and do not interact with other friends. Besides, there is no competition. Child cannot compare his or her ability than other children because he or she studies only with the teacher without other friends.

So, we had better to think again to choose home schooling as our children’s education.  If we want to choose homeschooling make sure that we understand all of criteria involved in home education.