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.