A LOOK AT HOMESCHOOLONG AND THE GOOD IT HAS TO OFFER

It’s been great having you spend valuable time to read this essential piece, by which my opinion on homeschooling is shared. Unfortunately, the so called modern era has witnessed a lot of unhealthy competition in the educational realm. Could you believe a student committing suicide in the name of the pressure that is encountered at school? This is no news, because, I definitely know you are aware of the increasing rate of suicide. When is this going to end? There are a whole lot of bullies here and there; rioters are scattered all over our educational campuses; and worse of all, you come across incidents where students are bold enough to pull out guns and shoot fellow students. In fact, some parents are disappointed in the formal schooling system, and due to all the numerous ill effects associated with formal education, they have begun thinking of themselves as better than the so-called school teacher. They are of the view that they can teach their children very well at home, thereby, cutting the risks of all the ill effects. Casting our eyes around, we find limited number of good schools, coupled with increasing number of students seeking admission. The competition for good carrier path even becomes intense at the tertiary level, where cut off grades are introduced during admission. An effective alternative I find for formal education is homeschooling. My point stems from the fact that homeschooling allows the child to pursue what he/she is good at, and does not expose him to the so-called competition for which there are only few winners. There are a whole lot of respectable personalities who have made it without formal education. I am definitely going to mention some prominent names to you, and I require you to tell whether the bearers of those names were ever recognized as great academicians at school. To start with, I will ask you to tell me the degree Tamil Superstar Rajinikanth holds. From which business school did Mr. Anil Agarwal graduate? Which school did Kabiguru Rabindranath Tagore pass out from? What about Bill Gates and Albert Einstein? Were they great scholars at school? It’s high time we stopped putting our children under pressure. Let’s adopt homeschooling, a means by which the child’s interest can be known and hence, nurtured. With this approach, your child’s talent will be recognised, and all you have to do will be to encourage the child in that direction from childhood. This will definitely make your child excel better. With homeschooling, you can help develop your child’s interest into a passion and develop him/her into a better professional than a mediocre educated general citizen.