▶ Your Answer : As a myriad of educational theories are exist and many children have different educational background, we should choose teaching methods for our children very carefully. Recently, there are some parents who try to become a teacher for themselves because they have strong belief that parents are the best teachers for children. Even though, the homeschooling has some advantages, I disagree about the opinion. I will explain two particular reasons in the following essay.
First, I think it is almost impossible for ordinary parents to cover all the newest education trend. As our society has advanced rapidly, a lot of newly released information have been updated to textbooks. In addition, requirements of entrance examination is becoming more diverse. To be specific, high school students in South Korea should learn over 20 subjects for each semester. In general, common parents are not well educated to teach all subjects completely and they do not have qualified abilities to instruct special subjects including music, art, science and so on. On the other hand, in public education system, each teachers deals with only one subject which is relevant to their university major. All of them are experts and they have a lot of chance to take part in official education training system periodically. It means that public education system is one of the efficient ways to provide both up-to-date scholarly information and professional teaching.
Second, providing that parents teach their children only by their own way, many students will lose chance to be assessed objectively. To be specific, in general, many parents have positive prejudice to their children. This will lead to significant misleading that their educational achievement seems to remarkable, though it does not. In addition, the students are easy to suffer from lacking of competition with same age group. My friend whose mother tried to teach him by herself is a compelling example of this. When I was a middle school student, the friend had very positive personality and he was a person who always try everything enthusiastically. Although, his mother also had very good intention and educational strong belief, a trouble appeared when he took the high school entrance exam. Because they thought that he had studied appropriately, he had never been evaluated by public examination system. The result of the entrance exam gave rise to severe disappointment to their family, in addition, he failed to enter any high schools near by. I believe that they should not only rely on the mother's education.
I think homeschooling by parents has some subsidiary advantages, but I believe only relying on the homeschooling can bring about a great matter of concern to students. Thus, I firmly suggest that students need to take official education career by public education system because of the reasons as I told above. This will assure that many students to feel sense of achievement more stably.
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