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Would you home school your children? From the mid 19^th century until the 1960s, education was accepted as being the best way for children to learn. Then, in 1964, John Caldwell Holt published a book called How Children Fail

8.1. _He fołlowed this up in 1967 with How Children Learn.

At the samo time, a different study showed that school was harmful to children aged between 8 and 12. It claiined that they were harmed academically, socially and mcntally. The theory was that, by going to school, the bonds between children and parents were cut and could never be restored properly. The conclusion was that, for most children, education at home with a parent was better than one at school with even the most gifted of teachers.

8.2. _As a result, homeschooling started to become morę and morę

popular.

However, not cveryone agrees that homeschooling is beneficial.

8.3. _The main one is the lack of socialisation. Homeschooled

children not only miss out on friendships but also on an understanding of how to compromise and get on with those who they aren’t so friendly with.

In addition, there are doubts about the parents’ motivation for teaching at home. Often, it is believed, the reasons are the parents’ beliefs. Therefore, their children grow up with different values and ideas to the rest of society.

8.4. _In it, he said that parents give children a one-sided point of

view even if they don’t mean to.

So what about the level of education? Checking clifferences in progress by testing is difficult. In studics, homeschooled children have been found to achieve higher grades than traditionally educated pupils. However, parents of homeschooled children are generally well-cducated themselves and highly

motivated for their children. 8.5._Other studies have shown that,

although grades achieved in English and reading were generally higher amongst homeschoolers, grades in morę specialist subjects such as Mathematics and Science were morę mixed. This suggests that, for certain subjects, a ąualified teacher is morę important than for others.

These conflicting arguments about the merits of homeschooling are rcflected in differing attitudes towards it in different countries. Some, notably Brazil and Germany, have outlawed it completely. In contrast, in the USA, there are now estimated to be over two million children being educated at home with parents being given a great deal of freedom when choosing a syllabus and methods of education.

A.    Other books and studies in the 1970s agreed with these findings.

B.    However, such findings were not accepted as fact by everyone.

C.    It could, therefore, be argued that these children would have out

performed their peers however they were educated.

D.    Opponents give several reasons for their opinions.

E.    In it, he criticised schools and their effect on children attending them.

F.    This problem was highlighted in The Civic Perils of Homeschooling

by Rob Reich.

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