B1 – Intermediate
What enters your mind when someone mentions the term “Home School”?
Read the article below to know more about what home schooling is and how some parents consider this education option. Be ready to do the speaking activities in this article with your teacher.
More and more families are choosing to teach their children at home. Although some families disagree or dislike with what is taught in schools, the reason for the new trend is different. Instead, home schooling better fits their lifestyles than public schools.
For example, Lisa Mazzoni and her family live in California and Florida. Lisa sometimes does her algebra or history homework by the pool or on her condo’s rooftop. Lisa’s mother says, “For someone who travels a lot and wants to keep the family together, it’s an excellent choice.” The Mazzonis own a speedboat company, and so they must travel frequently.
Private teachers cost about $70 to $110 an hour, though. Supporters see in-home teaching as the chance to give children the best schooling with flexible schedules. However, some believe that children don’t have the chance to build friendships and social skills. Group lessons, such as ballet or sports, may help, but the results aren’t clear.
There are many companies that supply teachers and materials, which makes it easier for families to choose home schooling. Tiffany Wheeler, another home schooler, explains it best. “It’s fun,” she says as she sits relaxed at her bedroom desk.
Source: headsupenglish.com
Discussion Questions:
1. What are some reasons that you would want to home school your child?
2. What are some reasons that you wouldn’t want to home school your child?
3. Do you think home schooling via the Internet will be common in the future?
4. What would you say if your son/daughter wanted to quit school and study at home?
5. If you moved to an English speaking country for one year, would you home school?
2 replies on “Home Schoolers On the Rise”
Maybe if me and my family would worl a lot, I think it would be a good reason to home school my child.
For example the work, if all the family have to go to work, you can’t leave the child alone in home, maybe if the theacher that will come stay all day with the child it could be a good option, but I think that it cost so much money. Other reason it would be the frienship that the childs made on the school, if they stay at home all day, maybe on the future have more problems with the relation with other people.
Yes, I think home schooling will be the future, but I think too that it would can be a problem, because at the moment, a lot of families the father and the mother are working, and if the childs have to stay at home, and any of the parents can work at home it would be a problem.
I would talk about the frienship that you made at school, the differents activites that you can do there and you can do at home, for example sports.
I think at the beggining is important the contact with other people, because you know new people and made new friends with who practice the language.
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it would bethe frienship thatthechilds made ontheschool,if they stay at home all day, maybe on the future have more problems with the relation with other people.> Another reason is the friendship that children make at school. If they stay at home all day, maybe in the future, they would have a lot of problems forming relationships with other people.
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