The results of the latest Pisa report, especially in Catalonia, have generated a great debate about the situation of the public education system in our country and the threat of school failure with problems especially in mathematics and reading comprehension, two subjects that are very pending for many students. .
Faced with this situation, more and more families are considering whether going to traditional educational centers is the best option or whether they should educate their children themselves by preparing the content, with maximum personalization of the classes and at home: it is homeschooling.
The principle of homeschooling is to educate children outside the educational system, which is still a very minority phenomenon: in Spain there are between 2,000 and 4,000 families who educate their children at home, according to the European Network of Home Education.
Many of the parents who use this system especially value being able to educate their children in an individualized way that is adapted to their shortcomings, needs and concerns, something that they miss in public education.
However, in Spain education is mandatory between the ages of 6 and 16 and the responsibility for schooling minors falls on the parents or legal guardians, so homeschooling would not be contemplated as a legal act even in constitutional law. .
Social services and the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office can act forcefully if they consider that children are not receiving adequate education by not going to school, and this is precisely where parents who practice homeschooling defend that in their case there is an educational project. deliberate.
For all these reasons, homeschooling is a controversial method that is equally well valued. On the one hand, the lack of socialization with other children is pointed out, while on the other hand, it is justified that in this way problems such as bullying are avoided.
In any case, homeschooling continues to be an existing alternative in our country and defended for having the ability to adapt much more effectively to the minor in question, although this entails the risk of an incomplete education.
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