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Show Home schooling, a help or a hindr By LYNNE JOLLEY AUTHOR'S NOTE: The parents' and school teachers' names have been changed in this article to protect the identity of the students. stu-dents. Home Schooling. For some people these words bring negative connotations conno-tations on how to educate children. For others, home schoolingcan be a savior to their childrens' education, educa-tion, especially if they are suffering in their social relations or academic performance in public school. Often parents and school teachers teach-ers meet to discuss a particular child's problems in these areas. If they are severe enough, home schooling school-ing may be the decision reached in order for the child to continue his education without failing in his academics or completely withdrawing withdraw-ing from his peers. Once a child is in home school, however, his social skills and academic aca-demic performance can either increase in-crease or decrease his social standing stand-ing with other students. Recently several parents of home schoolers and public education shared their views on the social aspects that can affect these children chil-dren - aspects such as, how a child's self-esteem can be affected if he is ridiculed in public school by his peers, and how it can be affected by them once he is in home school. Other topics discussed were how these children responded to their parents as teacher, and how this can affect their interaction with the public school teacher after the home schooling experience. Mr. and Mrs. Abe Danforth of Utah County chose to educate their two junior high school boys at home due to the harassment they received re-ceived from other young men, who Danforth referred.UM n, macho boys" as Ur "These fellows Co,.U aggressive and soJ ""KlT le"t. Our SOns dXW, mold They receal for it," she added tofriicu Not far from the nnf , ' fence was another coU 7 teen-aged daughter & W problems. Devon and SSlmi' ick opted for home schtima their daughter became: name calling, and was th abrf' rumors spread by fellow 7 High -choJ Seville has seen several 1 ? taken out of the public 'J 1 believe manvnfn, ' think, We caThelp oi l6 whether people wX 5 1 The school years are a rZ. teforchildren.andleaS they will react to peoSTff srathatpubiicschM' child how not to feel bad wW , teased, but public school , j are exposed to this, and they fi how to deal with it," said Mr J Public educators also are J ally aware ofthe affects of adv l peer reaction to certain child J Some of them havebeenencou3 ing towards parents efforts toed! cate their children at home, J ever, the school teachers interview! still had questions as to home sclJ ing being the best alternative t wards the student social issue. All of the parents interview, agreed that in home schooling socializing agents for these ch dren are their parents, whereas! public school other children aretk socializing agents. |