Thanks a lot arjay for sharing your thoughts on this…
HOME Scholing may sound great but we must remember the famous phrase EASIER SAID…THEN DONE ! for it takes a huge concentration and giving up many things a mother would like to do when her children are at school and husband at work…like coffee parties…vsisiting friends, shopping around…etc etc.
I think I have already changed my lifestyle for children for not having long telephone conversation with friends, for not having a tv etc and I’m working on not spending more than half an hour on net.
I’ll be teaching them through Kinza Academy’s homeschooling programme inshaAllah which is based in USA and members of the Advisory Board are people like Jhon Taylor Gatto and Sh Hamza Yusuf Hanson.
The Kinza program is a complete homeschooling service that includes the curriculum, daily lesson plans, and an online advisor to assist you and your student throughout the school year.
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KINZA ACADEMY is a scholastic organization committed to the revival of traditional education for children. Our goal is to introduce parents to the perils of modern education and to offer alternatives for their children in the form of homeschooling and community-based, traditional schools.
At present we offer a predominantly Western curriculum based on a traditional, “classical” education, as defined by Dorothy Sayers in her must-read article The Lost Tools of Learning. The curriculum is presently directed at primary school-age children, but as our organization continues to grow we will expand the curriculum to encompass the traditional secondary education as well.
We intend to provide an in-house tutorial program, which would be a community-based service for homeschooling families, that would provide a tutor to teach their children in the privacy of their home. For parents who cannot assume the responsibilities of homeschooling but nonetheless wish to have their children educated in an alternative setting, Kinza Academy is presently researching ways in which it can assist communities in establishing traditional schoolhouses that offer a classical liberal education.
Why Should We Homeschool Our Children?
“For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.” Dorothy Sayers
There are numerous reasons to homeshool our children, which is why so many people are choosing this educational option for their families. The most common reason is the obvious failure of the modern educational system to train and educate young people. The 1993 National Adult Literacy Survey found that one in every five adults was illiterate.
Departments of education in such states as Alaska, Tennessee and Washington have conducted studies that found the typical homeschooled student comes out ahead on every significant measurement. Achievement tests have found that homeschoolers average as much as 30 percent higher than both public and private school students. Many elite universities, such as Harvard and Yale, are beginning to recognize the excellence of a homeschooled student’s education, and are actively recruiting students at homeschooling conferences and fairs.
For many parents there is also a concern about the child’s character development. With the tendency on school playgrounds towards peer pressure, bullying, and cliques, it is difficult to encourage the finer qualities in a growing child such as kindness, justice, and compassion, Another natural quality in a child is self-motivation. In the modern school system where the love of learning is cut off at the root, children lose the ability for self-motivation and become dependent on outside factors to stimulate them. In adulthood this translates into the subsequent need for entertainment, amusement, and diversion from what should be a life spent in the pursuit of knowledge and excellence.
On both public and private campuses there is the increasing problem of children being sexually abused, and being exposed to violence, drugs, and sexual activity at very early ages. Many parents do not want to gamble on whether or not their child will become the victim of a violent crime, a drug user, or have a teen-age pregnancy as a result of going through America’s public school system.
Another important aspect of homeschooling that often gets overlooked is the bonding that takes place between the child, the parent, and its siblings. A homeschooled child spends much more time with their parents and siblings, time that forms deeper bonds and more meaningful relationships with their family members, A healthy family relationship sets the stage for the child’s abiltity to form lasting relationships outside of the home which is essential if one is to succeed in the world.
There is the amusing concern about socialization and homeschooled children, and the irony is that homeschooled children are in fact, better able to engage socially with all age groups than public or private schooled children, which usually only feel comfortable with their own age group. That homeschooled children are unsocial has turned out to be a myth.
Some perks also come with homeschooling. Homeschooled families choose their own curricula, not the state, homeschooled families choose their school days and hours, not the state, homeschooled families choose their days off and vacations, not the state, and homeschooled children though better educated, actually have more time in the day to learn a musical instrument, excel at a sport, become involved in community activities, and form meaningful relationships.
The benefits to homeschooling are innumerable. If we are to have healthy relationships with our children, raise independently thinking, just and compassionate people, homeschooling, as an educational option must be seriously considered by every parent who is able to teach their child at home.
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sorry to say but I don’t think many people are talking from their experience nor they have done any research on homeschooling.
I’d suggest do read John Taylor Gatto’s books or articles and also the overall results of the homeschooled children.