Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Q&A Mufti Abdur Rahman’s Opinion on Home Schooling

			What is your opinion on
homeschooling a child today you're
		

			seven, I think it's a great idea
if you have the stamina, the
		

			ability and above all the
patience. So there's a few things
		

			you need for homeschooling. And
you know, there's lots of
		

			resources online that will give
you much better information than I
		

			do. But
		

			the main thing about homeschooling
is you need to have the necessary
		

			knowledge to be able to impart
that kind of homeschooling number
		

			to lots of patients, certain times
children will probably not be able
		

			to be homeschooled, they just too
wild, right, it's just too active.
		

			And a secondary option to that is
to actually make a cooperative of
		

			like minded parents that want to
do homeschooling. So you've got
		

			five or 10 parents, and each of
them are teaching them different
		

			things and their kids are
gathering together, they're going
		

			out to the park, and so on. So if
you let me put it this way, if you
		

			can do it successfully, you have
the qualifications and the
		

			extended facilities, for them to
be given a rounded kind of, then I
		

			would definitely say it's a good
idea. But children do need some
		

			kind of collective time as well,
which if you can provide that as
		

			well, somehow, it's good, at least
it will help them to generally
		

			use their time better, because in
schools, they have to generally
		

			follow the national guidelines.
And a lot of these things. For
		

			more, a lot of parents and from a
purely educational perspective,
		

			are probably redundant for them.
They don't think that there's
		

			there's a lot of time wasted, away
from the core subjects. And you
		

			can get the other kinds of
experience depending on what you
		

			are. Some people are not gonna
learn experience, even if they've
		

			gone through school, and some
people will, it just depends. So I
		

			think it's a great idea if you can
do it. I you know, we've sent our
		

			children to school, what we've
done, we've decided to do it
		

			differently, where we've just been
in good contact with the
		

			children's teachers and the head
teacher, and just had a good
		

			relationship with them so that we
know exactly what's going on.
		

			Right. And you know, we've had
Alhamdulillah, even in America was
		

			the same. We've had situations
where they will know what our kids
		

			are allowed to eat in a party and
what they're not allowed to eat,
		

			et cetera, et cetera. They let us
know if there's something coming
		

			up that may go against what we
might like for our children and
		

			not for our children. So there's
both of these ways but I would
		

			definitely say yes, homeschooling
is a good idea as well.