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