TOEFL iBT Academic Discussion and Writing Summer 5-1 Homeschooling

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Question

Do you think it is a good idea for children to be homeschooled? Why or why not?

 

 

☆Let’s Think

Do research on the following questions and discuss them with others.

1.        What is Amy’s point? Provide a case in point.

2.        What is Mark’s point? Provide a case in point.

3.        Who do you agree with? Share your opinion.

 

 

☆Hints for Points

Advantages

1.        Flexible teaching according to individuality

2.        More chances for Free, critical thinking

3.        Free from bullying

 

Disadvantages

1.        Less professional help

2.        Less socialization

3.        Less memory of schooling

 

 

☆Responses for Ideas and Expressions

Homeschooling is a good idea:

I am more against schools than for homeschooling. Schools are for the government to raise a population obedient to those in power. From kindergarten to high school, and even to university, we are taught to keep the mouth shut. You can’t ask questions about school policy and never can you try to change the school rules. By spending our precious forming years in this environment, most of us have the wings of our mind torn off and spend the rest of our lives in a huge cage of our government while always frustrated by the feeling loss of a real life that could have flowered in a freer environment. Homeschooling helps children evade this domestication by the government. This benefit outweighs all its shortcomings because freedom provides the optimal environment for education.

(132 words)

 

Homeschooling is not a good idea:

Homeschooling might be good as a supplementary tool for teaching, but it absolutely lacks important environment that school can provide for children. School is a special place in which hundreds of children gather, supported and protected by some professional adults. Here, we make most of our best memories in our early years. School events from team projects to various yearly activities celebrate life of children as they give them learning and experiences to get ready to go into the real world. Homeschooled children miss the exposure to this enjoyable, nurturing environment. No one who were of school age during the lockdown in the pandemic of coronavirus disease would disagree. Except for those who have a special condition that makes it difficult for them to go to school, homeschooling is not a satisfactory choice especially for young children. (137 words)

 

 

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