Homeschooling - solution to our school problem?

[scriptologist]

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Thats works there mainly kay everything else is also there like libraries with updated shelves and proper guidelines on how or what to do in homeschooling.

Di na ma dala diri. Nya ang mu todla na parent di sad kibaw gi tabla na...

This is not true. Most homeschoolers will go to a public library if they don't have the book available.

[scriptologist]

IMHO, this is not a solution. maybe for some but the reality is, we need more schools & better teachers. Lahi ang US og Pinas. what works there, doesn't really mean nga mo work na sa ato. Lahi ang ilang culture kaysa ato. the Shortage in schools is only in Public schools & dili sa private. yes, daghan ang naglisod & di na kaafford para private schools. but mao na ang trabaho sa govt. to provide free education for all. Corruption ang rason nganong kuwang ta og schools. naa funds, mismanaged lang.

Well, they are just people like us, and we became republic before them, so why can't we do it? This can work for both, public or private. For instance, I and my wife have a work which is on the minimum wage salary, We really like to send our kid to a private school but hardly can, so my option is the public school, which I know has lesser standard than that of the private ones. What if my wife or I can teach our kid at home with the same standard with that of the private school but with less fee? If we don't act on this and depend on our government and politicians to stop this corruption, well, the less educated, less informed, the next generations are, our economic future is uncertain.

[febekeith]

methinks homeschooling is a very good avenue for saving money and quality education. I think, the modules that are sent out to parents have directions in it. It's like a free lesson plan waiting to be implemented. In an original sense, it's the parents task to educate and mold the kids in the early years. But with time, this task is delegated to others who've made it into a profession - teachers.

Anyways, you can never tell if your child is getting enough education with 40-50 students competing to hear it only from one source. And you could just imagine the diverse influences both bad and good that greets the child as soon as it enters school.

Education has always been free for all. It's only up to people how to get it. Even higher educations have resorted to online learning - which is a form of homeschooling... So, why not? The only thing is that as a parent you've got to have discipline and dedication to pursue this kind of training (of which a lot of us don't have, and maybe the reason why a lot of kids are put in schools because parents simply can't do it themselves).

[febekeith]

IMHO, this is not a solution. maybe for some but the reality is, we need more schools & better teachers. Lahi ang US og Pinas. what works there, doesn't really mean nga mo work na sa ato. Lahi ang ilang culture kaysa ato. the Shortage in schools is only in Public schools & dili sa private. yes, daghan ang naglisod & di na kaafford para private schools. but mao na ang trabaho sa govt. to provide free education for all. Corruption ang rason nganong kuwang ta og schools. naa funds, mismanaged lang.

I think culture has little bearing to universal need. In this case, education. Education is everybody's business..

Thats works there mainly kay everything else is also there like libraries with updated shelves and proper guidelines on how or what to do in homeschooling.

Di na ma dala diri. Nya ang mu todla na parent di sad kibaw gi tabla na...

We have everything now, at the tip of our fingers. If we can afford daily load for our cellphone, surely we can afford a couple minutes for the net (at P10/hr). I basically learned my elemental statistics more on youtube instructions than on my teacher. It's even clearer there with no one but me to hear the lesson firsthand. Hence, if there's a will, there's a way.

[beyee]

IMO, homeschooling takes away the fun in interacting with other students.
Learning doesn't equate as to the books or modules that you read nor worksheets
that you answer as application to what you have learned. It also entails getting inputs
from your peers to validate what you have gotten from these literature.

Learning is still a human experience for everyone to enjoy and not to the confines
in your own home. I don't think the person who is homeschooled will be equipped to
the real world out there for the lack of interaction with other fellow students.

To alleviate such education probs that we now have, mismanagement of government
funds in our education program should be dealt with. However this is such a hard feat
since our nation is crippled with graft and corruption resulting to funds being usurped by
our ever beloved officials to their own whims at our own expense especially the future of
of our children who are supposed to help in building our nation.

So, for me home schooling is not the solution... it should start with our government to
start fixing our education program... we have a lot of unemployed teachers to begin with.

Tsk.

[istoryamember]

kung mag homeschooling ka, labas nimo ana work at home

[febekeith]

Human interaction can be found everywhere. I think homeschooling does the job of curbing and controlling influences that may affect your child's attitudes and habits. With school, you may never know what kind of peers the child goes with. Thus, a parent may save herself from future heartaches from difficult attitudes due to the kid's association with the wrong kind of people.

I agree that learning doesn't come only in books. But I think your notion of homeschooling is like that of regular schooling - confining children in a four-cornered room. Well, if you search through the montessori way of teaching, you can see that lessons are better adapted by kids when presented in a practical way and at their level. So, it is at the discretion of the teacher (say, mother if homeschooled) how to present it. It may be through play or gardening and or even shopping! Either way, the child is sure to have interactions with a lot of different people from different stages and walks of life. It's like bringing books to life as they are able to see and apply it in real time. Besides, whoever said that homeschooling should be done with a single kid? Cousins may join in or neighbors. Wouldn't they be "peer" enough for one child? Furthermore, the best thing is that you actually see what they do and can easily correct mistakes as soon as it buds out.

As for the government, it's a given fact....We can't cry for rotten eggs all our lives and wait for the higher people to work at it. Filipinos have been known for wailing for lacks without actually doing something about it. So, let's accept what needs accepting, forgive what has already been, and change those that we are capable of changing...And of course, we need to know the difference.

Just to clear out,.homeschooling may only be effective and applicable to those who can actually do it. For the early years (preschool and some elementary), this may seem plausible. But as lessons get harder, parents must evaluate themselves if they can actually deliver or if their child is capable of doing it on their own (subjects like chemistry, physics, and the like)...Homeschooling is an option among many others...It's really up to parents and students to search for what fits them best in terms of resources and capability.

[febekeith]

kung mag homeschooling ka, labas nimo ana work at home

mmm...I wouldn't really say that ky ang katong nagschool ug masteral via online are now teaching in colleges and universities...

[hitch22]

My opinion on this is that this is a valid option for some people but not necessarily for everybody. I think if the parents can provide the environment and the discipline to carry out a homeschooling program...and if the parents can expose their child to sufficient amount of networking with good peers (as opposed to networking of the bad kind, which can be a lot worse...and schools don't necessarily prevent such exposures)...this can turn out to be a very good option for the child. For myself as a parent, I'm probably too busy to follow such a program.

It's not as though this has never been done or isn't going on today. People like Margaret Atwood (Canadian award-winning novelist, essayist), Dr. Francis Collins (American geneticist, director of the human genome project), Condoleeza Rice (66th American Secretary of State) and Sho Timothy Yano (Asian-American child prodigy with an IQ of 200) are all successful products of homeschooling.

It's not that suddenly we should all abandon the traditional schooling system. But this has to be looked at as a valid option for parents who can make the necessary commitments. If in a school environment your child is exposed to bullies and unfair treatment from teachers...responsible parents should pull their child out of those situations or run the risk of permanently scarring their child's psyches and end up worse off. There are considerations and situations where homeschooling can be the best thing for certain children.

With the growing mismatch between growth of student population and the growth of the number classrooms and teachers, it would be very unwise not to entertain such an option. The government, however, has to create legislations/programs that will allow homeschooled students to get mainstream recognition. At least in the states, universities allow homeschooled applicants as long as they meet certain requirements.

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[febekeith]

very well said hitch22...especially the last part where homeschooling must get recognition...I think that's what's lacking here in the Philippines...