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