When Fear Is A Part Of Life At School

Do you have fond memories of your school years? Do you have happy memories of teachers and school friends? If you do then you were lucky, because some children hate each minute of being in school and not because they are no good at it either. Frequently it is the bright children who are bullied for being swots and teachers' pets. They are safe and sound in the class, but the travelling to and from school and the school breaks can be nightmares.

However, it is not just bullying from other children that causes fear in school children. There are other reasons for fear in school as well. Occasionally, children think that a particular teacher does not like them and sometimes children are only frightened of failing or doing badly. Occasionally teachers are afraid of doing badly too. It can all lead to an atmosphere of fear at school. It makes you ask yourself how anyone could have enjoyed their school days, does it not?

This atmosphere of fear can get greater in state schools because the teachers are subject to success charts and the kids are more subject to bullying. Furthermore, all of the school shootings in the world have taken place in state run schools.

However, the most insidious kind of fear in school comes from teachers who are frightened of missing the targets set by the state, because that will cost them their posts. This fear is passed on to their students. The regime of fear is made worse by over-sized groups. Why?

Because teachers can hold the attention of only so many pupils - as we all can in regular discourse. Therefore, if the class is too large, the teacher will have to switch roles from being a teacher to a controller. When this occurs, education suffers for the sake of keeping order.

For all of these reasons and more, many crowd are turning to home schooling. Some of the reasons why parents are deciding to instruct their children themselves are: distrust of the state education system; fear of bullying or worse of their children; a desire to educate their children in a more conventional or religious fashion.

There are learning packages that parent-teachers can purchase to give them a course of action on what to teach. There is also a great deal of help available on the Internet. The problem facing any parents who wants to educate their own children is providing an all round education.

All people have a natural tendency to specialize in one topic or group of subjects like, say, astronomy or the sciences, which is why schools supply numerous teachers, so that every one can teach his or her favourite topic. However, if you are the only teacher you will have to teach all the subjects yourself.

This is why it is best to have a course or set of guidelines to follow. It is hard to teach maths if you have no talent for it, so look at your strengths but also your weaknesses before you take the momentous decision to remove your children from school and teach them themselves

Owen Jones, the writer of this article writes on many topics but is currently involved with Fear In School And Home Schooling. If you want to read more, please go over to our web site called Home Schooling.