What is home schooling?

Question

I live in Ireland and we don't have anything like it here. How does it work?

Answer 1

Home schooling is as it names states, schooling from home.  You have the option for a hired tutor or your parents to teach you your subjects.  Some parents do this for protection from the outside world, and some for better learning.  It is easier and faster to learn with the one on one style of homeschooling.  You have more time to advance in subjects you like and to do scholarships, etc.

Answer 2

Actually, you do have homeschooling in Ireland. You can find out all about it here:

http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/regi...

It's essentiallly that parents instruct their children at home according to what the laws for their area say.

Answer 3

Actually they do have it there, at least in the UK to a degree

First, it's only for self-starters who can work independently on their own.

There are several methods.

School in a box, which is basically a pre-written course of studies offered by one of a dozen companies for a fee of $400-$2,000 a year depending on if it is AP (GSCE or A LEVEL) or regular, accredit (diploma) or unaccredited.

Unaccredited regular is cheapest

In American things like ABeka and Penn Foster are school in a box, mostly aimed are religious people.

There is virtual or on-line school.  This can be free for local residents of the state or paid if you are not a resident and it is courses on line with web sites.

These are often accredited and give a diploma.

If you want to sample one just to see what it's about go to

http://www.flvs.net/

This is the flordia state one and it's free to US Florida residents and costs outside Florida

They have sample courses

There is free form

This is mix and match

It can be text books from a book store like Amazon, Borders, etc.

Books borrowed from the library

Used books from thift stores.

The final method is unschooling which is eduational hobbies

Such as getting a telescope and spending hours looking t the night sky and keeping a log and taking pictures.  That counts as Earth Science

Setting up a metorology station and learning how to do charts, find humity, watch and log barameteric pressure, ID clouds from pictures.

Computer programming.  Geting BASIC or C++ and making programs.

This teaches math, graphics and computer skills

Creative writing, with the idea of submitting for publication and getting things like grammar books, Writer's Digets MArketplace and learning to write and craft a submission until you sell one to some magazine.

The ultimate idea is to do the required work for college entry at home using books and materials that equal the eduation you would get in school.

Or the required work to get you a HS equivelent diploma (GED) and work by learning practical skills.

Homeschooling is BASICALLY learning at home, often with a parent supervising, sometimes grading your papers, some times structuring the environment.

Homeschooling is done for religious reasons (parents want to have alternatives to Darwin shown, Darwin is still taught, but so are the creationist alternatives).  

For safety reasons (bullying, bad schools, drugs, s*x problems in schools, gangs, violence).

For distance reasons (very rural students)

For higher educational reasons (local schools suck the big one)

For parents who relocate a lot (Military parents who may get shipped off every six months).

For kids with learning disabilites (ADD, Dislexia)

For kids who excel (you can go year round and cover more ground)

For kids who are slow learners (you can take it at your own speed and go over it again next year)

Do understand there is an education problem in SOME (not all) US Schools

HS graduates here think Denmark is a City, can't do fractions or decimals very well and don't speak a 2nd language.

SOME are the exact opposite and speak 3 languages, can do calculus and know what the rivers in Lithuania are, but these are rare ones!

And, no offense intended,  do YOU really look like Pippy Longstocking! It's cute, but it's not American!

And finally most Americans don't know what Celtic is, except for Enya fans!

Answer 4

You can practically do it anywhere I think.

Lets see, its schooling AT home.

Answer 5

Traditional homeschooling here in the U.S. is where the parents take direct responsibility for the education of their child(ren).  The parents select the curriculum and means of conducting the courses / learning and a very large number of approaches are available - including online, cooperative education, computer based, parent teaching, independent learning, community college in the later grades, etc.

We do more or less traditional homeschooling with what is commonly called an "eclectic" approach - meaning we pick and choose what we think will work best from the wide variety of methods for each and every course.

This is sometimes confused with pure online schooling from home which can be through public or private schools.

It is also sometimes confused with "homebound" school which is where, for a variety of reasons such as illness or pregnancy, a public school forces a student to remain at home rather than attend school.  In this case, the student and an assigned teacher tries to keep the student current with their in-school peers.

Answer 6

Learning at home. (not at a traditional school) And I think it is legal in Ireland

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Home schooling is almost the same thing as going to school except for the fact that it's at home.  They still need to turn in their grades into some sort of group so the state knows they are doing work.  It's like when you come home from school and do you homework ... they don't have home work because it's their school work.  they open up their math book read the lesson then do that chapter.

Answer 9

We do have home schooling in Ireland.  You have to register your child with the National Education Welfare Board, and they check that the child is being educated properly.  There's a home education network that parents can register with to get support.

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/catego...

http://www.henireland.org/

Answer 10

it is wen a parent dose not want thier child 2 go 2 school and everyday except 4 sundai saturdai.the child that is homeschooled is teached bi thier parent or parents!that's wat it is.

Answer 11

Parents get a lesson plan and educational requirements from the school board and teach their children at home. There are often requirements for socializing with other children and testing by the school board to gage progress.

But, in the United States, such things are handled at the state and local level, so there can be significant differences in the laws and requirements depending on where one lives.

Answer 12

I have a few articles on my website about what it is. I don't have that many now, but I'm adding more on a regular basis.