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Article #397: Home Schooling As The Solution To School Violence

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






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