Will you homeschool your children?

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American parents today are faced with a stark choice. The country's public schools are becoming more crowded, more violent and less effective in preparing children for employment or college. Private schools may be too expensive or unavailable. To ensure that their children receive an adequate education, an increasing number of parents are simply teaching their children at home. While homeschooling offers many benefits to both child and parent. Its three most important advantages are its flexibility of curriculum, its adaptability to different learning styles and speeds, and its more positive, supportive social environment. If, for instance, the child is interested in dinosaurs, that subject could be used to teach scientific concets in geology, biology, or even history. Moreover, in the home environment, there is plenty of room for spontaneous discussion, field trips and other learning experiences that classroom logistics make difficult, expensive or challenging. HOmeschooling puts the child's natural curiosity to use, limited only by the imaginations of the child and parent. Children can move through the material at a rate that challenges them positively. In the conventional classroom, most lessons are aimed at the average ability. Thus, some students are rushed along much faster than is optimal, or faster than necessary for satisfactory results, while others yawn or find distractions because the pace is too slow. Nor can a teacher pay much attention to any single student in a classroom of 30 or discover how individual students learn best. But parents know the child better than any teacher, can readily make adjustments to content, teaching strategy, or pace as the child requires. I personally feel that my pace was dragged a lot by the poorly-designed curriculums and our dear Chinese teaching system. Gee ! If I am to be a parent, I really need to reconsider this issue.