homeschooling
Catalina Villarroel: In favour of homeschooling.
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, dear opposing team, teachers and judges. We are the debate team from Geronimo Rendic School. My classmates are Fernanda Castillo, José Plaza, Paloma Muñoz and I, Catalina Villarroel. Our team will defend the position that Homeschooling is the best form of Education. However, first we need to know the definition of homeschooling. According to Oxford Dictionaries, Homeschooling is “to educate (one’s child) at home instead of sending them to a school.”
To begin with, Education has been one of the most debated topics in every country in the last three decades. Nowadays, the way we see education has changed. Several forms of education have grown since. It seems that the traditional system of education has left aside several students with great potential because of several factors like overcrowded classes which has drifted the focus from academics to discipline. Violence, bullying among others have caused a great drop out of students from this traditional form. A new trend of Education has been gaining adepts since its creation in 1969 in the US. We are talking about Homeschooling. A way of educating your children at home, under a flexible curriculum tailored to the students’ needs and pace. It’s been called one of the greatest educational movements of our time. In our case, the scenario is not very different. According to OFE (organization familiar escolar) institution, “December. 2002, taken from Latinoamerica Fomenta Homeschooling”, in Chile around 60 families in Chile practice homeschooling. The Think academy is a virtual school who provides paid curriculum to those families who want to give an alternative education to their children.
Our motion will provide you, two arguments to support that Homeschooling is the best form of Education. First, this alternative way of education can provide a more personalized learning process which guarantees a meaningful learning and
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, dear opposing team, teachers and judges. We are the debate team from Geronimo Rendic School. My classmates are Fernanda Castillo, José Plaza, Paloma Muñoz and I, Catalina Villarroel. Our team will defend the position that Homeschooling is the best form of Education. However, first we need to know the definition of homeschooling. According to Oxford Dictionaries, Homeschooling is “to educate (one’s child) at home instead of sending them to a school.”
To begin with, Education has been one of the most debated topics in every country in the last three decades. Nowadays, the way we see education has changed. Several forms of education have grown since. It seems that the traditional system of education has left aside several students with great potential because of several factors like overcrowded classes which has drifted the focus from academics to discipline. Violence, bullying among others have caused a great drop out of students from this traditional form. A new trend of Education has been gaining adepts since its creation in 1969 in the US. We are talking about Homeschooling. A way of educating your children at home, under a flexible curriculum tailored to the students’ needs and pace. It’s been called one of the greatest educational movements of our time. In our case, the scenario is not very different. According to OFE (organization familiar escolar) institution, “December. 2002, taken from Latinoamerica Fomenta Homeschooling”, in Chile around 60 families in Chile practice homeschooling. The Think academy is a virtual school who provides paid curriculum to those families who want to give an alternative education to their children.
Our motion will provide you, two arguments to support that Homeschooling is the best form of Education. First, this alternative way of education can provide a more personalized learning process which guarantees a meaningful learning and