An Opinion On High School Students' Freedom To Choose Home Schooling

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12 March 2019
An Opinion On High School Students' Freedom To Choose Home Schooling
As the second decade of the 20th century nears, the advent of the existence of advanced technological innovations and tools has been evidently present. As such, educational systems all over the world have also been mostly technology dependent in the past ten years or so. Thus, technology-based home schooling, in particular, has become dominantly popular among high school students. Home schooling provides convenience to high school students. These students get to learn in their own pace, without being pressured at all as they pursue their education. Despite the widespread accessibility of home schooling programs to high school students, though, many secondary students have still not been able to have the freedom to opt to be home schooled, if they choose home schooling over traditional classroom based education. Many parents still have the final say in the mode of education their teen children should be allowed to pursue. Because of this, many high school students have been feeling that despite being of age, they have still been crippled in making their own choices when it comes to pursuing the type of education they want. This leaves these students feeling frustrated with the circumstances that they have been facing. Down the road, teenagers may harbor resentment towards their parents for stopping them in freely choosing the way they want to learn in school. Ill feelings between teenagers and their parents, thus, eventually ensue. These negative feelings damage the good relationship parents have with their teenage children.
I do not agree with the fact that legally, parents have the final say as to whether or not they would allow their teen children to be home schooled in high school or not. Just because high school students are minors, this does not mean they should not be given the liberty to decide as to whether or not they would want to pursue home schooling or not, legally speaking. Even though they are still legally considered as minors, high school students are not little kids, anymore. They are in the stages in their lives in which they are already fully aware as to the decisions they have to make in their lives so they can be completely happy and satisfied. If parents deprive their teen children in being able to freely decide on their own in pursuing home schooling secondary education, these high school students may harbor bitterness long after they have graduated from high school, all the way to their adult years.
The belief that home schooling during high school years is very difficult for parents to handle is actually just a myth (Harper 1). If high school students opt for home schooling, then, more likely than not, they do like to learn independently. The traditional classroom-based public and private high school education does not provide plenty of opportunities for students to learn in ways that they want to. There are teachers who always have the final say as to the ways students should learn in traditional classroom-based high school education system. Additionally, students usually do not get to have the options as to which legally credited subject matters and co...