Independent schools of Geelong or Homeschooling? Know the points to make a better choice

Preparing your child for Schooling is both exciting and challenging. Some kids are not fussy and easily adapt in but some kids are difficult to habituate in new atmosphere.

There was a time when putting your child in best school was a proud thing but trends have changed now. Recently it is read on news that many celebrities are opting for home schooling options. Celebrities are no doubt the ideals of general public and create examples. People are following this home schooling option for their fussy children as a cool way to educate and habituate their children for academics.

But is that a good option? Wouldn't it be great to put your ward in some reputed school as Geelong College?

To clear these thoughts and answer those, lets weigh out the home schooling thing in scale of possible positive and negative aspects of it.

Basis of home schooling:

• Parent's perspective toward providing better education than local school is mostly the basis of this type of schooling. Moreover this is also a good option when child is sick for long time and is not able to go to school.

• For kids that have some mental disability or emotional disorder then home schooling is the best idea because at these instances child needs extra attention which he / she could get only through private tutoring at homely environment.

• When number of children in whole family is more than 3 then also this saves parents from admission formalities and selection of school.

• At time when nearby in the vicinity there is no good school home schooling seems to be the savior.

Positive aspects:

• Child gets more attention

• Child can spent more time with family

• No home work

• Child can master its confidence.

• Child can work on its own level.

• A lot of things can be eliminated while home schooling like breaks between classes, time for attendance, and disruption from other students. This time is utilized and child could have complete control over the schedule.

• More tools can be freely used for learning at home.

Negative aspects:

• The child lacks socialization. They may lack association and congregation with other kids.

• The lack of extracurricular activities as sports, cultural and competitions would hamper overall growth of child.

• Lack of abundant resources as books and texts that are possibly available in school library.

• Separate roles of parent and teacher are hard to perform by parents. This also cost the second source of income in the family.

Well so whether you decide to put your child in private schools of Victoria or prefer home schooling , you need to give utmost importance to the fact that child gets a better learning environment. This once you give, rest everything will be worked out automatically.