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News / Jan. 30, 1986
Weathersfield Weekly

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Home Schooling - Another Option

In our society more children come from broken homes or places where both parents work. When a child arrives at the door to find their father is an alcoholic who enjoys physical abuse. Or, when a medical condition has produced a lengthy and hard strain on the child's body. All of these endanger the child to physical, mental, and emotional abuse. It is here that home schooling is an option to alleviate the conditions that produced the starvation and the feelings of being alone.

Home schooling is an attempt to restore the basic nature of being a child. Each child needs love, a home, security, and a feeling of family. The loneliness of the "drop-out" must be corrected and society must take on this responsibility.

These are three(3) reasons why parents choose an alternative form of schooling:

Parents choose home education because of a perception that the school is not meeting the child's needs. Public schools today do not adjust to the unique learning styles of each child and there is much to be said for the individualization of instructional programs.
In choosing to home school we're providing academic insulation and a failure to experience childhood and adolescent growth
The socialization process of a child may be impaired under home schooling and both positive and negative sanctions by institutional and peer pressure will be missing. These pressures a child will have to adjust to in the long run if he/she is to become an effective member of society.

Thomas Jefferson, the advocate for public education in America, envisioned public schools as the place where children could learn to read, do math, and keep up with worldly events. His concept of a universally mandated public education system is more relevant today than ever before and is more endangered by public apathy, technological achievements, and parental neglect.

(Jan. 30, 1986, Weathersfield Weekly)