In my experience there are six main reasons for failure in home education. The first one is when the husbands and the wives don\u2019t agree on home education. That\u2019s a sure recipe for disaster because there is division in the home itself. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen things work in this kind of situation.<\/p>\n
The second one is when parents have brought the school home. That\u2019s also a formula for disaster. If the structured environment of the classroom didn\u2019t work at school, it\u2019s not going to work at home either. Here\u2019s a good analogy: if your van breaks down five miles from home and you drag it home, it\u2019s still broken.<\/p>\n
Third is when children are in control of the home. I don\u2019t see this very often, but when it happens it\u2019s always a mess. This isn\u2019t really a home education problem as such, it is a family problem. Parents who don\u2019t have control of their children are not going to be able to provide a proper home education.<\/p>\n
Fourth is when the mother lacks support and encouragement from others. As facilitators, that\u2019s the one thing that all of the ladies we visit are so thankful for. They are thankful for the encouragement, the help and the opportunity to sit down with somebody who\u2019s on their team. But for the mother who is all alone and lacking support, home education is a hard endeavor to maintain.<\/p>\n
Fifth is when the mother listens to people who see themselves as experts but who have little real knowledge and experience. This is something that we find a lot. The people who are doing this are well-meaning, but everybody wants to be an \u201cexpert.\u201d If you\u2019ve got a six year old, and the other people have an eight year old, they think that they have more experience than you have. Do they really? No. And the reality is that they can\u2019t apply what worked for them to you because your family is different and your children are different.<\/p>\n
If they offer advice, accept it graciously. But don\u2019t necessarily start questioning what you\u2019re doing as a consequence of what somebody else is doing. Just ask yourself, “Is what I\u2019m doing working?” And if it is, keep doing it. If it ain\u2019t broke, don\u2019t fix it.<\/p>\n
And the last one is when educational decisions are based on anything other than the educational welfare of the child. I used to say \u201cdecisions based on money\u201d because that\u2019s the main reason that displaces the child\u2019s best interests. This is the situation when parents start basing their decisions on money, or basing their decisions on anything other than the educational health and welfare of the child. Parents who do that have missed the point of keeping their children at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In my experience there are six main reasons for failure in home education. The first one is when the husbands and the wives don\u2019t agree on home education. That\u2019s a sure recipe for disaster because there is division in the home itself. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen things work in this kind of situation. … Continue reading The Six Main Reasons For Home Education Failure by L\u00e9o Gaumont<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}