According to Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, Homeschooling
is the teaching of children at home, usually by parents. Ella Yulaelawati (Depdiknas) states that
homeschooling is an educational system is focused and organized to the children
by parents or family and the condition and situation is more conducive . Actually attendance at
homeschooling in Indonesia had been organized by government in Article 7 of the Indonesian education law (Undang-Undang
No. 20/2003) gives parents the right to select how to educate their
child. There are some definitions about homeschooling nevertheless no one
specific definition of homeschooling as it
ends up being the decision of the person or organization using the word on how
to use it.
Homeschooling is a legal option for parents in many
countries including to Indonesia. A psychologist, Seto Mulyadi states that
there are many problems why parents choose
homeschooling to their children such as psychology problem, economic
problem, and geographic problem. Moreover some parents who are not satisfied by the teaching methods in public schools, no
religion instruction in public school. Therefore parents think that
homeschooling is better than a public school, especially for children’s
development. However there are some negative
effects of homeschooling.
The first negative effect of homeschooling is lack of socialization.
Daniel goleman states that human basic characteristic is doing socialization.
In homeschooling, the children will do
socialization such as going to the supermarket, mall, park, and visiting
neighbor. However it is not enough for them.
All children need relationship with their peers accordingly less
socialized will effect children’s development. Moreover the other negative
effect of homeschooling is the children can’t afford to do teamwork,
organization, and leading. Based on the
research from Dr. Brian Ray, one of the famous researcher about homeschooling,
he said that homeschooling had been trend in many countries in the world.
Increasing of amount homeschooling students is caused education system is
failure in US which can’t fulfill industry and business necessity. As the result
many students of informal school cannot be ready to work in the firm. The
negative effect that the children face is motivation. Homeschooling can’t make
the children to encourage for competition whereas they should compete to be the
best with their friends. While public schools is the place which can train the
children for competition.
The next negative effect is the cost. Public schools are cheaper
than homeschooling. In homeschooling parents purchase newest curriculum and
teaching tools, it can be very expensive. Parents may choose to use a paid homeschooling
program, such programs may have added benefits. Parents also provide the
equipment like project materials, stationary, many books, computer software and
field trips. Not only that, if parents cannot teach their children well, they
should pay tutors to teach their children. consequently it will spend money a
lot. In addition, there is one more the negative effect of homeschooling is
lack of facilities. It is impossible if equipment’s homeschooling as complete
as public schools. For classes that require experiments like physics and
chemistry, it can be hard to get all the necessary chemicals, materials,
apparatus, and so on. The home must be also lack of sport facilities such as
field, swimming pool, and gyms.
In conclusion, there are some
negative effects of homeschooling. It is important to remember and know about
negative of homeschooling for parents because the education of children is one of the key responsibilities of a
parent, and they must think very carefully before removing their children from public
school into homeschooling. Therefore parents should know what their children need in
their education.
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