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Some mention another reason: children are calmer in their environment, can sleep more, and eat healthier. Psychologists and some teachers believe that some parents overestimate their talents and it is imperative that children interact with many peers.
The September mood is already in the family of Kristijonas and Agnė from Vilnius. They are raising three children: eleven-year-old Naglis, eight-year-old Džiugas, and three-year-old Onutė. The elders already know what it means to go to school, but this school year they will be staying at home at a table with computers and books, and the teachers will be replaced by their parents.
Parents are not educators, but they say that during a pandemic they are convinced that they lack the ability to teach children.
“Last year I still had to be home, it’s a lot of fun being home with them, because they are great guys,” says Kristijonas Storpirštis from Vilnius.
The family emphasizes that the pandemic is not the only reason they decided to raise the offspring at home.
“It is important to me that they sleep well, because in winter it is sometimes unfortunate to raise them on the seventh morning, when it is dark, and push them out the door into a cold field,” says Agnė Šileikytė from Vilnius.
“Learning is better when you are relaxed, when you feel safe, when you are at rest, you do not experience stress, then the brain works, it records information”, says K. Storpirštis.
At home, it is possible to feed healthier children, take more breaks and study at home, even in a house by the sea. Also, parents say they will save money because they previously allowed their children to go to private school. And now, if necessary, you will hire a tutor. Naglis and Džiugas say they liked school, but they prefer to be at home.
“You can only go out once and at home, as much as you want and with breaks,” says 11-year-old Naglis.
“You can sleep more, have breakfast later, enjoy it, drink tea and then start school quietly,” says eight-year-old Džiugas.
Classmates, they say, won’t miss much either. In addition, many circles attend.
“Sometimes I meet my friends anyway,” says Naglis.
“My wife and I shared that I would spend the first half of the day organizing my own learning. As we still signed a contract with the school, they provide textbooks, ”explains K. Storpirštis.
The number of people who want to teach children at home is growing
Family education was officially approved by the ministry a year ago. And, if last year 64 children were left without teachers, according to the Family Learning Association, there will be almost three times more than in September this year, at least 200. The Šiauliai Santarvė Gymnasium is also feeling the changes.
“This school year, six children will study with us as a family, two of whom continue their education, because they already started last year, and four will start studying like this this year”, reveals Ingrida Kuolienė, director of Santarvė. Gym.
Exactly how many such students there will be in Lithuania, the ministry is in no rush to calculate that will become clear as September accelerates.
“Some may have liked it and the tendencies may be greater that students want to study according to the” Education in the Family “program, says the representative of the ministry Alvydas Puodžiukas.
However, experts emphasize that family education and distance education, which has already become commonplace, are not the same. To completely abandon the services of teachers, parents take full responsibility for the education of their children. They must obtain a certificate from the Adoption and Children’s Rights Service, have no stains from conflicts in the family, and the child must have at least four square meters of study space at home. Reports on the child’s development must be completed on a regular basis, and every six months the child must check his knowledge and complete the tasks prepared by the school.
“If at least one of the subjects is not at a satisfactory level, the children are advised to immediately return to the educational process together with the class,” explains I. Kuolienė.
“I still believe sacredly in our teachers who are better prepared to teach children than their parents,” educated Mindaugas Nephi.
Some teachers and psychologists are not so excited after all. Children simply need to be among other people, not just in the comfort of their own space.
“If you really decided to teach at home, it would be groups, kindergarten friends. That socialization and all development is very important with peers. Will it be provided for the child?”, Considers child psychologist Milda Karklytė-Palevičienė.
“The school has a huge social context, several hundred children, there is communication with the teachers, with other adults. It is he who is improving. And now we bring him into a narrow social circle. (…) How will this affect the child’s social development? ”Nephi adds.
The psychologist Milda Karklytė-Palevičienė emphasizes that before making that decision, parents should evaluate whether it will really be better for the offspring and not just more comfortable for them.
“Do we have the skills to do that? Because knowing mathematics and teaching mathematics or knowing Lithuanian and teaching Lithuanian are very different things, ”says M. Karklytė-Palevičienė.
As family education has only been developed for one year, the ministry does not want to draw conclusions about its success or its shortcomings.
“We have to wait for another school year, then we can summarize more, but I think the alternative is adequate,” says A. Puodžiukas.
It is true that not all educational institutions want such an alternative. For example, out of more than a hundred schools in Vilnius, only nine have contracts with parents for family education.
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