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Luo Zhigang
www.cnhubei.com
Because of dissatisfaction with the current education system, some parents are choosing to home school their children at all levels, be it kindergarten, primary, junior middle and even senior middle school.
However only wealthy families can afford to provide effective and comprehensive education to their children at home. The majority of China's residents are still farmers, and even ordinary working class urban residents cannot find the time to cope with the demands of home schooling.
Aligned with home schooling, private schooling is a profit-driven industry taking advantage of some rich people's desire to be unique. Some individuals and organizations have begun to start the so-called "modern sishu (private school in ancient China)." Education is critical to the country's future, and it's necessary to properly deal with the relevant institutions to ensure children's healthy growth.
Niu Xiaohua
www.cnr.cn
I don't understand why parents choose schooling at home. Is it because of their dissatisfaction with the current examination-oriented education system, or because they think what schools impart is simply wrong?
In schools, children not only pick up academic knowledge, but also the knowledge of how to communicate with others. Students need rich extracurricular activities and interaction with classmates, so that they can fit into society after school life. In addition, most children in China are the only children in their families and in need of peer companionship. The experience of going to school imparts far more than book knowledge.
Qingzuozheliao
bbs.longhoo.net
The biggest shortcoming of the current education system is the lack of respect for a student's personality. Parents who home school their children aim to nurture their children's personalities and this is a great leap forward. However, these parents have not fully understood how a child's personality develops and what the final aim of education is.
A person's personality will develop positively only in the process of interacting with others. Those who advocate home schooling are paying a lot of respect to their children's personalities, but nowadays what students need most is to learn to respect others, or we'll see a future society lacking in love and mutual respect.
To educate children at home is a blind and impulsive choice. There might be one or two successful examples, but for the majority of children and their parents, home schooling will not lead to a good outcome.
Even if there are really tens of thousands of children studying at home in other countries, which does not mean this education mode will also work for Chinese children.
Zheng Xiaoqi
Beijing Evening News
Whether they choose to go to university at home or abroad, children brought up at home schools will eventually have to face real school life, which will compel them to compete and cooperate with others.
After children reach a certain age, their peers become more important to them than their parents. Healthy psychological development requires them to interact with classmates. In home schools, children have no outlet to express their need to socialize. Thus, it cannot compete with normal school education. | 
