写作题4.Home schooling is the education of children at home. The practice wins the heart of some parents. Should home education really be advocated? The following are the supporters' and opponents' opinions. Read carefully the opinions from both sides and write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 words, in which you should first summarize briefly the opinions from both sides and give your view on the issue. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization, language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. YES Home schooling allows children to learn in an environment that has the needs of one or a very few number of students as the focus of the educative process. Parents are willing to invest in their children and can provide targeted provision that prioritises the learning needs of those individuals. Therefore, specific textbooks that are tailored to the child's mode of learning can be purchased. Classroom-based education must, by necessity, cater for the needs of the group as a whole which leaves those the very bright unchallenged and those with special needs falling behind and unsupported. The authorities often take years to recognise the needs of students and they lose years of education in the process. However, homeschooling can benefit such students by shaping the learning environment to cater for their needs by being flexible to adapt. NO Hundreds of experts and researchers ensure the quality of public schools. It is presumptuous for a parent to think they know how to teach a child better than that accumulated wisdom. Just because the child is a product of that individual does not mean that the education knowledge of the parent surpasses that of professionals in that field who have spent years training. Furthermore, even the best teachers can be improved by the insight of a third-party; such evaluations are not accessible to home-schooling parents. The danger is that "From the government's perspective, the world of home education is full of unknowns"; there are not sufficient measures of quality control in place to protect the child and their right to a comprehensive education.
【正确答案】 On Home Schooling A new education mode called home schooling has come into public views. The families in many countries have already put it into practice. These parents are ensured that the very specific need of the individual can be satisfied, as their kids will be the focus in the educative process and the courses as well as text books can be tailored for them. Contrarily, experts and researchers are in support of the public schools, because they believe that in most cases, parents are not as capable in teaching as accumulated wisdom in schools. In my view, the time for home schooling is not mature yet. Firstly, there is an uncertainty in home schooling. Since parents do not have a common education background, there is no shared evaluation standard to test the final result of teaching. The children would not be confident of the knowledge they have obtained at home. Secondly, as children of home schooling do not have access to competitions and group examinations, they would often lack a sense of competitive spirit. There will be much trouble for their future job-hunting. Thirdly, children educated at home are often isolated from their peers. They are lonely and tend to lack awareness of teamwork. It is not easy for them to be well adapted to the adult world. In a word, it is not the time to widely carry out home schooling.