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Making an
educational decision is difficult when your child has no difficulties
in the typical public school classroom. When your child has learning
issues, the decision is weighty.
There
are several factors to consider. Do you know enough about your
child's disability to know how they learn best? Do you like being
around your child? Do you feel like your child would do better
being taught at home?
Considerations:
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Pros
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Cons
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| home schooling |
Child can learn at own pace.
Social peers are often not aware of learning
difficulties because the children are not educated together,
thus there's no social stigma with a Learning Disability.
Child can ask as many questions as he wants
so he gains more understanding.
Child gets more opportunities for practice
when there are fewer children.
"School Day" ends without additional
need for homework, tutoring, therapies, etc. as they become
part of the school day. This gives the child a chance to
play and be a child! |
Requires parental dedication and diligence
to line up an appropriate program.
Parental patience may be stressed when
child struggles and parent must be able to calmly deal with
learning difficulties.
No "off" time for teaching parent
during the day. |
| Tutoring |
Concentrated learning from an experienced
provider.
Can gain excellent progress and improvement. |
Lengthens the child's school day.
The child may be too tired to learn effectively.
Cost. |
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| Private
School |
If serving child's specific disability,
can gain excellent progress and improvement.
Child does not feel "different"
from school peers. |
Homework can be significant.
Cost.
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| Public
School |
Free.
Time off for parent.
Child will be with children from a variety
of backgrounds making them more "worldly" wise.
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Programs often fall short of child's capability
level. May be "adequate", but not designed to
maximize child's progress.
Social stigma of "special education"
often damages self-esteem.
Child will often become victim of the "Matthew
Effect", getting further behind in standard curriculum
while spending time working on remedial subjects.
May never get "Regular" diploma,
limiting future options.
Stress of dealing with "Special Education"
requirements, such as IEP meetings, can be significant.
You may find this IEP
Training of benefit. |
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