Homeschooling, Pro's and Con's
By amyaeric
@amyaeric (80)
United States
April 14, 2012 3:07pm CST
I have a little brother that is 9 yrs. old and he is a smart kid. He has no short term memory though so school for him is hard because he has to have something repeated numerous times before he remembers it clearly. This year the school did a screening on him and he is a little behind where he should be but is maing big strides in getting caught up. What I'm wondering is, would it be better to maybe teach him at home so that we could teach him on his level and to meet his needs? He participates in Ken Po after school so the concern isn't so much not enough interaction with other kids at this point, the concern is if we home school will he still get the education needed to go forward once he is caught up?
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5 responses
@dandan07 (1906)
• China
15 Apr 12
If a child get his education at home, I think his parents can find many interesting knowledge for him to learn. He will not be limited to learn thing on book which is quite boring. But as many parents are not experts in education, the child may not learn very good from his homeschooling. And I think the most important con's for homeschooling is let the child lose the chance to learn with other children and lack of chance to make friends with children in his own age.
@amyaeric (80)
• United States
16 Apr 12
I agree that learning at home can effect what a child learns versus a child in public school. Luckily we are in a position that if his studies were to start getting to the point where we were struggling to teach him we would be able to bring in a tutor full or part time. Right now our main goal is to get him caught up on the basics of elementary skills. He is making improvement and moving forward but his teachers feel that he is still lacking a great deal of skills compared to other students in the class, and being a public school they won't or can't slow down on the lessons just for one student...sad but it's the way it is, or at least here that is the way it is.
Thanks for your response good points to consider here as well:)
@thuglove1722 (343)
• United States
15 Apr 12
of course he can get the education still in home school it can be better for him to get his specific needs
@peavey (16936)
• United States
14 Apr 12
I homeschooled my last two kids and wished I'd homeschooled the first one. Public schools are such a "one size fits all" institution that even when they don't have to, they push kids into defining groups that stick with them. You don't want your brother to think that he's slow or "challenged" as they call it now. Once that tag is put on him, it will follow him through the entire school system.
It depends on what and how you teach him, but there's no reason for him to not be able to continue with higher education once he's caught up in a homeschool situation.
@amyaeric (80)
• United States
14 Apr 12
I agree public schools have a way of labeling a child and it sticks with them for life. And where we are they have that no child left behind and for kids like my brother all it really does is hold him back from the attention and help he really needs to be getting. Thanks for your reply peavey:)
@sinnedsejatnom (1311)
• Philippines
14 Apr 12
I am also considering homeschooling for my child now how is about to go to school. The things that I can consider why I choose homeschooling is that it gives us quality and bonding time to my son. Secondly, we can monitor his performance and be able to teach him without pressure from other competitors. Third, we would be able to eliminate the tendency of having bad friends. Lastly, it's expense free. We just need to check/consider school's topics/subjects so that we can align on what to teach.
@amyaeric (80)
• United States
14 Apr 12
Hi sinnedsejatnom thank you for your response to this;) Those are all good reasons to home school! I really think that this summer we will start to look into what it's going to take to home school my brother, I just think he will do much better if he can learn at his pace and not the pre set pace of other students. It will be a challenge at times I'm sure but it's well worth the challenge for my brother to learn the necessary skills to make it and to have the same opportunities as other students:)
Thanks again:)
@Shazooo (296)
• Malaysia
10 Jul 12
Well, Im personally homeschooling myself. In your brothers case, I would definitely recommend homeschool because it always allows you to study at your own pace. Another thing good about being homeschooled is you get the one-to-one attention from your tutor if you ate hiring on. However being homeschool means missing out on a lot of things like sports days, school performances, school parties, club activities and so on..and your brother would have to be very disciplined.
