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Home Schooling As The Solution To School Violence

Home Schooling, also known as homedifficulty controlling his or her
education, is defined as the educationaggression or hostility, which may lead
of children at home, generally byhim or her to act out and resort to
parents or guardians instead of in aviolence, endangering the safety of
public or private school. It providesother children.
children with a different learningHome Schooling as the Solution
environment rather than that in publicStudies have shown that children who are
schools or private schools.home schooled are more socially and
Violence in schools has been dominatingemotionally adjusted compared to
the headlines lately. More and morechildren who go to private or public
parents fear for the life, safety andschools. Children who are home schooled
health of their children. Home schoolhave stronger ties with their family and
seems to be a better alternative thanfeel more secure because they know that
sending children to school where theythey have their family's support. This
may become the victim of schoolgives home schooled children more
violence.confidence to think and act without
Damaging Effects of Preschoolsubjecting themselves to peer pressure.
In a study conducted by the UniversityHome schooled children learn from the
of California, Berkeley, and Stanfordpeople that they trust and with whom
University, proof was gathered on thethey have the closest ties to their
fact that children who spent more thanparents. This encourages them to open
six hours in preschool had difficultytheir minds without the restrictions
with respect to cooperation, sharing andimposed on them in a classroom setting.
participating in classroom activities,They not only learn what they are
while children who remained at home withsupposed to from their academic lessons,
their parents prior to starting schoolthey also learn about real life because
showed no difficulty whatsoever.they get to learn in a real setting and
According to a Harvard Longitudinalnot in an artificially controlled
Study, children who went to daycareenvironment like that in classrooms. The
centers were shown to have inability toend result is that these home schooled
form psychological attachments later inchildren learn to resort to patience and
life. Another study showed that the timereason rather than aggression. They are
spent by children in daycare wasbetter socialized since they interact
directly proportional to the likelihoodwith different people other than those
of their becoming disobedient, defiantin their own age group and they are more
and aggressive by the time they reachemotionally secure compared to children
kindergarten.who learn in a classroom setting.
The conclusion that can be derived fromIt is not difficult to see that home
these studies is disturbing. Childrenschooling may be one of the solutions to
who attend preschools or go to daycarecurbing violence in schools. Parents who
centers instead of remaining at homecan afford to spend more time at home
with their parents suffer seriouswith their children should consider home
problems with social and emotionalschooling as an alternative method of
development. This leads to aggression,instruction considering the fact that
hostility, and eventually violentchildren who are home schooled grow into
behavior as they grow older. This may besocially and emotionally mature people,
one of the reasons of violence inwho in turn become assets to the
schools. A child who is socially andcommunity.
emotionally underdeveloped may have



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