I think the homeschooling is opposite to Canadian protecting rights of children. Isn't it?

Question

Children are under pressure of parents. No freedom.

Answer 1

Children have far more freedom when homeschooling than when in school.  They don't have to stick to a timetable, they don't even have to get up early.  They can study whatever subjects they wish, and do far more outside activities than someone who has to go to school all day.

It's possible that some parents try to be controlling and not allow children freedom, but that's not homeschooling - that's coercive and possibly abusive parenting.  That would indeed be against the rights of children for most countries.  But in general, children and parents agree together to learn at home, they decide together what to study and how, and they're very flexible.   Unschooling (or autonomous education) is becoming more and more popular

Answer 2

I do not know what the laws in Canada are, but as long as parents are responsible for, and provide their children with all the necessities in life, the children do not have a job, nor are they self sufficient who else do you think should have the right to direct their upbringing, and their education?

Are you for real?

Parents are the last people who would want to see their children fail, or do anything to prevent them from having the freedom they need to learn; that is why many of us home school to give them the choices not afforded them when they have to conform to a system that has no clue of who, or what they represent as an individual.

Freedom is not free, and  has to be earned by being a responsible, capable, and active citizen.

If you take the millions of great parents who are trying to raise young adults who are educated, civic minded, active volunteers, and can provide for themselves out of the picture, you will greatly increase the social problems we are all ready dealing with today; no thank you.

You want freedom, earn it by learning to be a responsible young person that has a contribution to make to his/her community.

Answer 3

It sounds like you must have some issues with your own parents. That, or you think homeschooling parents only do it to make their kids get really, really, really good grades. Which is not true.

Children who go to school can be under pressure from their parents. Children who homeschool can have no academic pressure from their parents. What pressure parents put on their children has nothing to do with where they are schooled. Do you know that kids in the IB program are more likely to commit suicide than the general student population? Do you think the IB program is "opposite to protecting rights of children"?

Furthermore, which rights of children aren't being protected? Education is one of the rights children have. Homeschooling can provide them an education. Safety is another right they have--again, this can be provided by homeschooling. Access to medical care. There is no such thing as the right to freedom from parental pressure!

Not to mention the fact that you think that homeschooling means a lack of freedom. In the vast majority of cases, this is not true. My kids have more freedom homeschooling than they would ever have in school. They aren't held to a tight schedule and told what to be learning every minute, they don't have to ask for permission to go to the bathroom or get a drink of water, they aren't held for detention if they don't get their homework done or speak out in class, they have the freedom to speak when they wish and need to, they don't need to spend more than a few hours on school work and are free to do as they wish the rest of the day, when we're at homeschool get-togethers, they are free to play with whom they wish--and get to do so for hours rather than in 15-30-minute blocks like in school.

Homeschooling does NOT mean staying home all day and being told what to do by your parents every second.

Answer 4

That isn't true of homeschooling at all. In fact, homeschoolers often have MORE academic, social, and developmental freedom than their pubic school counterparts. Try doing some research, or have a look at my other answers. This gets tiresome.

Answer 5

Huh?NO!

Answer 6

LOL! No.

I'm Australian (not Canadian) but I'm still willing to hazard a guess that, regardless of where one lives, homeschooling is not contrary to protecting children's rights (a child's right to *what*?).

In my experience, it is parents who send their kids to school who then pressurise their kids by obsessing about the kids' grades; marks; how well they do in tests, exams; what teachers write on their kids' report cards; whether or not they've done their homework; why they failed to get into the school's first XI in sports; why they failed to be picked to play the lead in the school play etc etc etc.

If anything, homeschooling parents are the relaxed ones; they're generally the ones who understand that a good education is about far more than how many 'A's their kid gets on their report card and whether or not their kid's TER places them in the top 99.9% of the state.