What Are The Cons Of Home Schooling?

By Danielle Russell


For those parents who are eager to start home schooling their children, they have thought long and hard about the benefits home schooling will bring. Home schooling disadvantages is what they often fail to consider and it is unfortunate because it also plays a big part in their children's academic and social development.

The idea of allowing their kids to learn at their own pace without being pressured to keep up or labeled "dummies" if they need to spend more time than most of their classmates in mastering a subject is what parents may love but one of the home schooling disadvantages which they may not be factoring into their home schooling decision is whether or not their skills as teachers are good enough to help their kids learn difficult material.

When it comes to home schooling, one of the biggest disadvantages is that a parent will be completely responsible for designing their child's curriculum, schedule, as well as the moral and social values to be instilled in them as a part of their education. This is the sort of responsibility that will extend past the hours and both the parent and the child will be actively engaged in home school.

Discover the Time Involved in Home Schooling

A home schooling parent will have to spend time before and after class researching and organizing a curriculum which meets the home schooling standards in their school district, and also plan the class time activities which will make the material interesting for the kids. If parents have kids in different grades, then they would have to come up with a unique curriculum and activities for all of them.

Unless the parents are hiring a tutor to home school their kids, then another possible home schooling disadvantage is when the home schooling is done by a parent, a family which had been used to having two incomes will now have to get by on a single one. Having a tutor involved would mean that the concern of the parents would be about how well the kids are progressing in their absence.

Home schooling disadvantages also extend into the social area. A school classroom is not merely a place where children advance academically; it is their introduction to learning social interaction skills. Learning to interact with children other than their brothers and sisters is important for every child, because almost the entire world is unrelated to them.

Being exposed as well as learning to accept those whose viewpoints may conflict with your own is considered a big part of becoming truly educated. For a home schooled child, they may not get the chance to develop that kind of tolerance.




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