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