Nowadays, few parents choose the home schooling for their children because they believe that they can only focus on their children and choose the right instruction for individuals. From the functionalist perspectives, the home schooling does not perform enough manifest function. Through the manifest functions of education, the students learn how to be socialized, cultures, social control, social placement, and change and innovation. However, since home schooling is not open, it does not fulfill the manifest function well. Instead of the manifest function, the home schooling can perform strong latent function. The home school students could find their talent or potentiality earlier and keep trying on it because the system or instruction is for specific individual, not for everyone.
From the conflict perspectives, the home schooling is one of the good education methods because it may reduce inequity. The people who are home schooled does not have much time to interact with people other than family, so it may be easy to think that everyone has to be equal, if they are taught that way. In public school, the students often look each other with different views based on their race, gender, or class, and even teachers may treat the students differently by race, gender, or class.
The home schooling is gaining popularity across the Unites States now. However, the current home schooling has to be fixed for improving the manifest function. If the manifest function is not performed properly, the people who are home schooled would have difficulty with people who are socialized, and they would not succeed in real world.
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Home school can have a positive and negative part on a child socially. Home schooling can help kids focus on the things that they need to learn especially from parents. They don't get expose to all those extra crazy things that goes on in the public schools nowadays. Home schooling can leave a child bored because they do not get to make friends with other kids and sociallize like ordinary kids would. It is interesting and every parents has the potential to decide on who or how their kids should be schooled.
ReplyDeleteFunny....i was thinking about writing a blog on types of schools but my focus was going to be the advantages and disadvantages of private verses public schools. I was home schooled by my parents before i was accepted to primary school (elementary school in US system). My parents did a great job. The advantage i had was that my mother was a school teacher/principal and this made it better because she knew what to focus on.
ReplyDeleteI had the opportunity to go to a private school and before i got accepted in, i had to pass an entrance exam. I was 5-1/2 years old and i was able to writ my ABC's, read and do simple arithmetic.
As Jeff mentions in his comment, it may have a bad and good impact on a child. For me, at the time i felt that it was taxing to allocate a couple of hours each day to learn instead of play. When i look back, i appreciate the skills i was able to achieve before actually going to school. I felt i could tackle problems easier and learning was made easier due to the fact that i learnt the material at home before the school semester. (though it made me slack once in school because of the assumption that i already knew the material). All in all, i thank my parents fro the exposure taht built my mind into wanting to learn not only what we are taught at school, but also material outside the scope of schoolwork..
I think homeschooling is a good choice for people who want to spend more time with the children and to have good socialization interact with their children; however, it could have positive and negative impact depends on the parents. For example as Anne side, that her mother used to be a school teacher/principal and this made it better because she knew what to focus on, on the other hand there are many parents try to home school for their children which they may not even know the materials, and they just use this methods to isolated their children from others and from the negative environments.
ReplyDeleteI believe home schooling is probably the best since it allows the child to go at their own pace. I do agree, however, socialization is very important. That is easily solved though. Enroll the home student in sports teams, or art and music classes. Send them to youth group. There are many public groups and clubs for children that are not just for public schooling. Of course, the parent has to know what they are doing for this to work. But, if the parent knows what they are teaching, and properly enrolls their children in social groups, then I see no problem.
ReplyDeleteI really think it depends on the child. If a child needs more attention when it comes to education then maybe they should be home schooled so they can get the extra attention. However, I do think it is really important for children at an early age to be socialized and to learn what it is like to work with people your own age.
ReplyDeleteI think homeschooling isn't the greatest option. Most of the kids I know that were homeschooled are socially akward because of it and have a really hard time fitting in. People often flat out ostracize them for it and choose to stick with what they know. Obviously homeschooling has some great aspects to it, but I feel like being accepted by society is more important to most people than the positives homeschooling gives.
ReplyDeleteHome schooling can be bittersweet. I feel that you should go to school and be with other peers for the experience. However, i think that homeschooling could benefit kids who are constantly being picked on, or beat up and so on. If a kid is being harassed at school by other kids this can really disrupt the child from actually learning. Learning is supposed to be the main purpose of going to school.
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