Concerns About Summer Home Schooling

For the summer, some parents may decide to teach or school their children rather than sending them to their regular school for the summer, or to a summer camp. While there are some reasonably good reasons for doing this, some issues of great concern do exist.

It is possibly that some parents believe home schooling this summer will improve their children's relations with other adults. But more significantly, it may help to drastically reduce or even avoid today's strong peer pressure culture on their kids. So for example, the peer culture of excessive premarital sex, drugs and alcohol can be avoided through home schooling during the summer when kids often have more freedom to do additional activities. This peer culture pressure is often the concern of religious parents who desire to protect their children from being abuse, so they will adhere to the religious dimensions of their faith.

More direct and personal teaching (and attention) is also possible. One important point is that bright or brilliant students can be adversely affected by slower students and the progress of teaching in the public school environment, for example. So a mother, father or guardian will tend to teach the child at home so as to enhance their true potential and development. The bright child, for example, will then be relieved from possible boredom or even hatred for school work out of frustration that may result form receiving school lessons at a slower pace or kept from accelerating base on his/her true potential.