| Home Schooling, also known as home education, is | | | | violence, endangering the safety of other children. |
| defined as the education of children at home, | | | | Home Schooling as the Solution Studies have |
| generally by parents or guardians instead of in a | | | | shown that children who are home schooled are |
| public or private school. It provides children with a | | | | more socially and emotionally adjusted compared |
| different learning environment rather than that in | | | | to children who go to private or public schools. |
| public schools or private schools. Violence in | | | | Children who are home schooled have stronger |
| schools has been dominating the headlines lately. | | | | ties with their family and feel more secure |
| More and more parents fear for the life, safety | | | | because they know that they have their family's |
| and health of their children. Home school seems to | | | | support. This gives home schooled children more |
| be a better alternative than sending children to | | | | confidence to think and act without subjecting |
| school where they may become the victim of | | | | themselves to peer pressure. Home schooled |
| school violence. Damaging Effects of Preschool In | | | | children learn from the people that they trust and |
| a study conducted by the University of California, | | | | with whom they have the closest ties to their |
| Berkeley, and Stanford University, proof was | | | | parents. This encourages them to open their |
| gathered on the fact that children who spent | | | | minds without the restrictions imposed on them in |
| more than six hours in preschool had difficulty | | | | a classroom setting. They not only learn what |
| with respect to cooperation, sharing and | | | | they are supposed to from their academic |
| participating in classroom activities, while children | | | | lessons, they also learn about real life because |
| who remained at home with their parents prior to | | | | they get to learn in a real setting and not in an |
| starting school showed no difficulty whatsoever. | | | | artificially controlled environment like that in |
| According to a Harvard Longitudinal Study, children | | | | classrooms. The end result is that these home |
| who went to daycare centers were shown to | | | | schooled children learn to resort to patience and |
| have inability to form psychological attachments | | | | reason rather than aggression. They are better |
| later in life. Another study showed that the time | | | | socialized since they interact with different people |
| spent by children in daycare was directly | | | | other than those in their own age group and they |
| proportional to the likelihood of their becoming | | | | are more emotionally secure compared to children |
| disobedient, defiant and aggressive by the time | | | | who learn in a classroom setting. It is not difficult |
| they reach kindergarten. The conclusion that can | | | | to see that home schooling may be one of the |
| be derived from these studies is disturbing. | | | | solutions to curbing violence in schools. Parents |
| Children who attend preschools or go to daycare | | | | who can afford to spend more time at home |
| centers instead of remaining at home with their | | | | with their children should consider home schooling |
| parents suffer serious problems with social and | | | | as an alternative method of instruction considering |
| emotional development. This leads to aggression, | | | | the fact that children who are home schooled |
| hostility, and eventually violent behavior as they | | | | grow into socially and emotionally mature people, |
| grow older. This may be one of the reasons of | | | | who in turn become assets to the community. |
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