Home schooling and its impact

on the financial, education and

social development of students

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 Home Schooling And Its History
What is homeschooling?
● Home schooling is an educational system/method taught by either parents or other shared service (Moreau k, 2012).

History
● Based on research articles, Home schooling developed in the mid-century as general education (Moreau k.2012)
● Over 1 million children are being homeschooled all over the world.
● Estimation of 1.73 to 2.35 million children (in grades K to 12) home educated during the spring of 2010 in the
United States (Ray, 2011).
● 2.2 million home-educated students in the United States and home school population is still growing by an
estimated rate of 2% to 8% per annum over the past few years (Brian D. Ray, 2015).
● There is approximately one homeschooled child for every five children enrolled in private school.

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 Educational Impact

● Better performance in standardized tests

● Better GPA performance in ACT tests (Gustafson,2015)

● Most mothers are college educated with degrees (Dewar,2011)

● Better education at home than in schools

Social Impacts and Development

Pros Cons
• more time spent with family • unable to participate in group projects

• comfortable • decreased social tolerance and

cohesion
• more than just reading textbooks
(more space for exploration) • higher symptoms of depression and
loneliness
• freedom of thought and spirit
• less or no exposure to extracurricular
• increased self-discipline activities

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 Financial Impacts
Many expats that pursue to homeschool their child choose supplies
that are age appropriate through their personal research.

However some parents prefer a more structured, safer and stable

way.

An example, Ms Gautier pays Laurel Springs School in California

Dh9,180 (US$2,500) per year per child. (Hill, 2017)

This expense covers:

• Certified books

• Curriculum

• Shipping

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 Purchasing supplies, curriculum, books is costly if
doing it independently.

● Many expat families residing in UAE usually

have two stable incomes to sustain a good
quality of life.

● In order for homeschooling to be as effective

as possible, one parent must stay at home as
a teacher, where he/she may have to sacrifice
their job which would obviously cut the family
income. (Brown, Mary, 2016)

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Homeschooling in the UAE: is it common?

• Many parents in the UAE are choosing • Ministry of education (MoE) have
homeschool over private schools regulations for locals if they choose to
homeschool their child, which is to use
• Reasons: save money on school fees,
the UAE curriculum. (Government.ae,
provide their child with a better chance at
2017) However, the MoE do not have
learning or to protect them from bullying.
protocols or laws for expats.
(Hill, Jessica, 2017)
• “They ask us to follow the education laws
• Main issue: increasing school fees and
of our home countries.” – American
decrease in employees benefits enable
mother, Seema Khan, who runs the Home
homeschooling to be more feasible
education network in Abu Dhabi.
compared to private schools.
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Thank you!
 Reference
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● Brian D. Ray (2015) Research facts on homeschooling. Available at: http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED556234.pdf
(Accessed: January 6, 2015).
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