Posted to Monash Weekly (31/1/2014) on 2/2/2014 at 2:47 PM
Commenting on "Home-schooling on the rise across Victoria"
http://www.monashweekly.com.au/story/1795304/home-schooling-on-the-rise-across-victoria/
Traditional schools either spoon-feed the students or emphasize mainly on literacy an numeracy. There is not enough emphasis on two important disciplines for character building and prepare them to be successful in life. These areas of interest are respect and confidence, and these two must be impregnated in a child's mind at an early age.
Many parents blame schools for not teaching their children the right way, or for their misbehavior. Sometimes they confront the teachers and principals aggressively, and abusively - definite bad examples for their children to follow. Most unfortunately, many parents do not contribute constructively to the "running" of the school, because they are far too busy doing other things, and have no time for the wellbeing of their children's education.
As an educator, I understand that different students or "trainees" learn differently, at least in theory, but what I believe is that this is very expensive and the ends normally do not justify the means. The available budget for education is insufficient to provide teaching / coaching in small groups and better way must be found to achieve optimal throughput.
Home schooling is a the extreme case of small group teaching and training methodology. It is not cost effective, and may not achieve the desirable results. Are parents equipped to teach their children multiple subjects? Do they undertake continuous improvement program to update their skills and competencies? In future, do home schooling providers expect funding from government? As the number of home schooling cases increase, the administration costs for such funding program would be enormous.
Commenting on "Home-schooling on the rise across Victoria"
http://www.monashweekly.com.au/story/1795304/home-schooling-on-the-rise-across-victoria/
Traditional schools either spoon-feed the students or emphasize mainly on literacy an numeracy. There is not enough emphasis on two important disciplines for character building and prepare them to be successful in life. These areas of interest are respect and confidence, and these two must be impregnated in a child's mind at an early age.
Many parents blame schools for not teaching their children the right way, or for their misbehavior. Sometimes they confront the teachers and principals aggressively, and abusively - definite bad examples for their children to follow. Most unfortunately, many parents do not contribute constructively to the "running" of the school, because they are far too busy doing other things, and have no time for the wellbeing of their children's education.
As an educator, I understand that different students or "trainees" learn differently, at least in theory, but what I believe is that this is very expensive and the ends normally do not justify the means. The available budget for education is insufficient to provide teaching / coaching in small groups and better way must be found to achieve optimal throughput.
Home schooling is a the extreme case of small group teaching and training methodology. It is not cost effective, and may not achieve the desirable results. Are parents equipped to teach their children multiple subjects? Do they undertake continuous improvement program to update their skills and competencies? In future, do home schooling providers expect funding from government? As the number of home schooling cases increase, the administration costs for such funding program would be enormous.
