How to transfer a child to home schooling

Before you decide to change the conditions of theirchildren, it is necessary to consider whether you are able not only to give them the opportunity to master the school program, but also to create conditions for active communication with their peers. If the decision is made, then the transfer to home schooling is simple, does not require a lot of documents and consists of the following steps.Homeschooling of a child is possible at the request of the parentsPhoto: Getty

• You must first check whether there is a provision for homeschooling in your school charter. If not, contact the administration directly or find another school.
• Come to school with your passport and childbirth certificate, write an application for transfer addressed to the director. Medical certificate is only necessary if the transition is associated with the disease. In the application, you must specify the items that the child will pass independently, and the number of hours to master each of them.
• Prepare a schedule of educational activities and reports, coordinate it with the school’s management.
• After completing all the documents, conclude an agreement with the school and determine mutual rights and obligations, as well as the deadlines for attestation of the disciplines studied.
• Get in the school magazine in which you will need to record the topics studied and affix grades.

Thus, the process of changing the learning modenot very complicated. Another question is how appropriate and in the interests of the child. The answer to this question largely depends on the reasons for the transition to home schooling.

Transferring a child to home schooling: advantages and disadvantages

Arguments about the benefits and negative pointsHomeschooling is conducted both among teachers and parents. It is difficult to take an unambiguous position here, since the consequences of such training largely depend on the specific conditions created by the parents and on the individual characteristics of the student. The benefits of learning at home:

• the ability to adjust the standard school curriculum;
• more flexible distribution of study time;
• the possibility of in-depth study of individual subjects, depending on the interests of the student;
• development of independence and initiative of the child.

Disadvantages:

• problems of socialization, since the child does not learn to work in a team, even if he communicates a lot with his peers;
• the student does not receive public speaking and discussion skills;
• without the experience of group training, the child may later have difficulties in the university:
• not all parents are able to organize the child’s home schooling so that it is sufficiently effective.

Studying school subjects at home, especially ifwe are talking about younger students, of course, attractive. After all, it is more gentle, more flexible and even more intellectual. But it is necessary to take into account the fact that by transferring a child to home schooling, we deprive him of not only the problems and difficulties, but also the multitude of joys associated with school, communication with classmates.

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