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