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There are more and more people are beginning to look at homeschooling as an option nowadays. Some of them are famous, rich, and highly educated. Are there any benefits or advantages to homeschooling your child? You bet ya, there sure are.
Due to increasing unhealthy competition in the education area, most parents now-a-days find it unacceptable the way schools teach the kids in the good old ways, also from the fact of raising bullying in school and ragging Schools are no longer a safe place for learning, look at the rising number of student committing suicide just because they are not able to cope up with the pressure. Also in few occasion we come across kids are shooting other kid with guns. Due to this more and more parents are thinking that they are well-educated and are sometime better than the so-called school teacher and can teach their children very well at home and cut the risk of all the ill effects.
Look at the limited number of good schools and higher educational institute along with growing number of students, the competition for good carrier path is enormous, we often find cut off mark for admission to premier institutes are such that very few can get to them and this results in very huge pressure on the students, due to this pressure they are actually not learning but regularly fighting for existence is this going to end? I find homeschooling is one of the best alternative which allows the child to pursue what he is good at and do not expose him to the so-called competition for which there are only few winners with chance of success may be only 0.001% because that is only available opportunity for the chosen one who can mug up things faster and write very well in examinations and test. After all can you count very famous personalities who have any link with their educational background? I would name some personality and ask you can you tell me what their education is and which premier school they studied or how much score they got in their plus two? Can anyone tell me which school Kabiguru Rabindranath Tagore passed out from? What was Sachin Tendulkar’s percentage in Plus two? From which business school Mr. Anil Agarwal (Vedanta Group Chairman) graduated from? Was Albert Einstein a great scholar in school? Dhirubhai Ambani the founder of Reliance group managed to pass 10th somehow. What was Kapil Dev’s educational background? What was Sunil Gavaskar’s educational background? Can you tell what Tamil superstar Rajinikanth’s degree was? Do you know Amir Khan could go only up to 12th? I can go on asking and the list is endless.
Now let me ask one thing. Are we not just after the masses and doing the same mistake, putting undue pressure on our children? Then why follow the crowd why can’t we find an alternative, I think one of the alternative is homeschooling.
Advantages of Home schooling is many, as you can realize what is the real interest of your kid is and where is his natural talent and you can actually encourage him to work in that direction from childhood which your child will definitely excel better, in normal school your child is taught what others are also learning and in the process he or she may be getting bored and develop disinterest which is actually harmful to his carrier. In Home schooling you can actually develop your child’s interest into a passion and develop him into a better professional than a mediocre educated general citizen. You can also choose to train him on other skills like photography, music, art… and the list is endless. By homeschooling you can give your child with a free atmosphere for learning. Now-a-days information’s are available on fingertip in the internet and one need not depend on schools to guide us for the same.
Let us do something different, just because everybody is after the path it cannot be the only way there are always a better way.