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Schooling
Home schooling is legal
in most countries, but extent to which it, is practiced and varies. In the
Netherlands for example, parents have a duty to send their children to a
school, and Germany also forbade home schooling.
The most important
thing is ensuring children receive the decent education which they have a right
to – something that, with its resources, experience and expertise, and some
people think that the state is the best placed to do. Interaction with other
pupils is a crucial element of a child’s development. Being atble to integrate
depends on exposure to other people- obviously there’s more diversity in a
class than in the home. Indeed, parents and children spending day after at home
are sometimes subject to a phenomenon sociologists call the ‘hothouse’
relationship – the closeness between them becomes exclusive, with relation to
outsiders almost aggressive by instinct. Such a relationship makes it more
difficult for the child to adapt to life in the wider community.
In other case, parents
are responsible for ensuring that their children’s education is carried out
well. If they feel their children would be best educated at home, by them or by
another that is their right. Parents know what is the best for their children –
parents care more, because it’ their children. Home schooling doesn’t just
offer a better education. Family bonding is a massively important element of a
child’s development, one that’s constantly undermined in modern society.
Positive parental role models are found less and less frequently. Home
schooling is not a removal of a child from society- just from the state’s
schools.
To discuss:
1.
Do you support home schooling?
2.
Do you believe that the state does not
know best for the children’s education?
