Home education in Poland has been becoming increasingly popular for respective years. In the 2019/2020 school year there were 12,000 children studying outside the school. There are presently 31.5 1000 of them. Why so tall? In fresh years we have been dealing with a lockdown that has influenced not only life and quality in adults, but besides the education system.
Children and youth experienced alleged distant learning and online lessons. For any it was salvation, for others it was distress. In the case of my household and our daughter, this proved to be an excellent reason for moving to home education. We found alleged distant learning erstwhile our branch was in the mediate of the 3rd grade of primary school and luckily missed online lessons. Her tutor chose the way to train her parents with their children. You wrote an email this morning, which tasks to do during the day and in the afternoon you had to send pictures of the exercises taken. We had a large experience. It was warm, we had a cottage with a garden outside the city, so we could do these outdoor lessons on a blanket with birds singing and purring our cat. I almost didn't work at the time, just a small bit remotely, so I could spend quite a few time with my daughter. another parents may not have been happy.
After all, outside of their work, they had to explain fresh issues to their children, do homework with them. To spend quite a few time they didn't have before. What did this experience give us? We found that lessons do not request to be done in a building, a soulful area with 30 students erstwhile the sun is shining outside. It turned out that my daughter is not the "leg" of mathematics, as presented by her strict teacher. I found out that even though I never wanted to be a teacher, I someway did, and I learn to be patient with my child. And you don't gotta have a degree in math to teach her your own child. And although this object is not and has never been my strong suit, I manage at this level. I started studying the subject of home education. The word was acquainted to me. That's the form my husband utilized to talk to me about, who had no good memories of school. I didn't want to take the trouble. I had 2 chief arguments — no meetings with my peers, and that I couldn't cope due to the fact that I didn't finish my pedagogy, I never wanted to be a teacher, and in addition, at later stages of education, all subject is dealt with by another person. How am I gonna do, how are we gonna do, how's my daughter gonna do? There were quite a few doubts and fears.
At the latest since delivery
A large breakthrough was taking part in a vebinar about home education. I heard a conviction there from the lead girl, which I think will be in my memory forever. erstwhile asked by 1 of the participants: erstwhile is the best time to start home education with your child? She said, "At the latest, from the minute of delivery." I think I fell a small out of my sight then. I realized that we and our kid have been studying throughout our lives and that no facility is needed for this. We learn from others, from books, from magazines, from observation, from the Internet. Not just from you in school! We've been told to learn something, we gotta give our children to the facility to socialize, teach something. Is that impossible outside school? The threshings were yet created so Moms could go to work in factories. It's not due to the fact that it's specified a large invention for children. Apart from the alternatively apparent fact that there is simply quite a few illness in nursery care and from the earliest months and years they are exposed to quite a few infection, up to the age of 3, we request our baby first of all mom. Her closeness, presence, care and food.
Working as a nanny with a year old girl, I saw how indifferent the children were to her on the playground. She didn't interact with them. It was more crucial for her to go on hand with me or to aid her climb somewhere — contact and one-on-one relationship. It was the same with my almost 10-year-old daughter's math science. She needed focus and direct contact with the another person. The school conditions wouldn't let her. She was incapable to learn in the loud with a demanding educator. In these 3 years as a practice of home education, with full awareness I can compose that this is 1 of the best things for my daughter and our family. She has quite a few free time, she can make her interests and passions.
She didn't have time to go to school. After many hours, she came in tired, and here they waited for her and us, our parents, to do homework. I was frequently tired, nights were never good for me erstwhile it came to my intellectual work. Looking for a household that besides has children in home education and has more than one, I found Monica. They raised 4 children. 1 is already adult and is studying at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. The premise of my conversation was to talk about how to teach children at different stages of education. Our ten-minute conversation turned on different tracks.
Monika talked about what kind of footholds the institutions have put up for all these years of home education. We talked about the fact that there is no place in the strategy for children with higher than average IQs — an example of her adult son. There were besides general reflections on the harmonious improvement of the kid and the adult. And finally, the fact that a female who is mainly engaged in educating her children, moving a home, can be happy, fulfilled, and leading an intense social life. Monika is glad that she learns things with her children that she did not have time for earlier – playing violin or calligraphy. We touched on the subject of harmonious development. For a child, it is crucial to decision and to have fun. Not just typing letters and numbers. I think the school is forgetting that. My favourite word is to “cry” children in schools. Maria Montessori powerfully opposed it, but that is simply a separate theme.
There is besides a question of children's diversity in this “philosophy” and that each requires a different method of learning. This is Monica's statement, which I agree with, and what can't happen in school, even if teachers effort hard. Kids are just besides much for 1 teacher. This frequently poses a number of problems especially in children with judgments that require peculiar learning conditions, and this is not respected. I've seen many of these stories from my parents.
The school is for mediate schools
Monica's son's example is not the only one. The kids are highly intelligent, or the ones that do much worse than the remainder of the class, they lose. Everything is “aligned” to the majority level. The disciple above average will be bored, and the “less capable” will stress that he is inferior to others. My daughter was wasting her time at school. She was curious in subjects that were in school. At the time, she had artistic, musical, and gymnastic talent.
These things in school were for a cure, and after school she did not have the strength to yet quit her passions and talents. And finally, everyone has one. They are not always in line with what the education strategy in Poland teaches. I remember my schools well, but if my parents knew about ED and they wanted to spend their time teaching me, I'm certain I'd be a plus. The facility will never know me and my needs as well as my own family. We're told it's for the good of us and our children. Schools, given the years of our civilization, are a comparatively fresh construct. erstwhile children were educated at home. If parents didn't want to do it alone, they hired teachers. It's akin today. Although I am a supporter of teaching my children, do not entrust others and do not make alleged cooperatives. Then a fewer families teach their children alternately.
For me, this is now certain that until the regulations change, my daughter and possible future children will be homeschooled. On the another hand, I am aware of how this can be incomprehensible to others. Most of the time, mom spends her time, her career studying her child, her children. Why? If they can be returned to the facility 1 or the other. Just give it back. We donate for half a day, sometimes longer, our children into abroad hands. People we don't usually know. All we know about them is they graduated. But what else? We don't know anything about them. What are their views, what will they teach our children how to treat them? Nothing. Is it liable for us – our parents?
Anna Kluszyńska
Think Poland, No. 19-20 (7-14.05.20123)
