HOMESCHOOLING

Nowadays, homeschooling is growing very fast and more interested by people. Mass media likes newspaper, tabloid, etc even electrical media always announce about homeschooling. Some public figure and artists are choosing homeschooling as the way for their children for education. Many publication and news about homeschooling. Many question and curiosity about homeschooling which sometimes called home education or home - based learning. In Indonesian language, homeschooling called "sekolah rumah" . This is an official name that use by Department of National Education ( Depdiknas ) to called homeschooling. Beside "sekolah rumah", homeschooling sometimes called as "sekolah mandiri".

One of general explanations for homeschooling are educational model for children which family can choose and be responsible with their choice, also parents can educate their children at home for the basic of education. In homeschooling, parents must be active in their children education process. In means parents must active from determining direction, the aim of education, values that need to be growing, intelligence, and skill that going to be reach, curriculum, material for study, until method of learning also daily practicing for children. In family homeschooling, half of the process of learning - teaching usually lead by the parents. Especially for early steps (such as preschool and elementary school). In this step, material for learning is more simple and it can get from their parents. At the highest step, usually children from homeschooling can stand alone. They will find the solve to get the answer according to their needs and wishes. In this step, as a parent, usually more function as a mentor or facilitator.

To do education and enrichment, family of homeschooling also using all infrastructure and medium that have on society. The material that used can be free or paid. To learn, family of homeschooling can use facility that exist in real world likes facility for education (library, museum, research department), public facility (park, orphanage house, hospital), social facility (mall, exhibition, restaurant, fabric, rice field, plantation). Beside that family of homeschooling can use private teacher, tutor, course, etc. Internet and audio visual technologies is one of the media that usually used in family of homeschooling.

Homeschooling and School have differences, such as :

• At school, responsible for education will delegate from parent to the teacher and school. At homeschooling, responsible for education is fully in their parent's hand.
• At school, parents role and family is less contribution because education is going on by the school system and teachers. At homeschooling, parents role and children are important and determine education are going to success.
  
• Model of learning at school, system are establish but in homeschooling, needs commitment and creativity of parents to bring about homeschooling.
• System at school are standardized to fulfill children need as general meanwhile, system at homeschooling must be suits with the children need and family condition.
• Management at school are centered such as curriculum that design the same for all students. Management in homeschooling are decentralization depends on family of homeschooling.
• At school, schedule for studying have been decide and same for all students but at homeschooling, schedule for studying is flexible depends on agreement between parents and their children.

The strong at homeschooling :

• Customized, suits with children and family condition
• Giving more opportunity to stand alone and individual creativity which can't get in general school
• Can make children more potential without following the standard of time which mention at school
• Ready to face the real world because learning process depends on daily activity around the children
• Conformity between children's values and family
• Ability to make a relation with the parents and vertical socialization

• Fee for education can be adapt with the family financial

Weakness of Homeschooling :

• Needs commitment and high involvement from parents
• Have higher complexity
• Horizontal socialization is lowest
• There is a risk at ability in team work, organization, and leadership
• Protecting from parents can give side effect with inability to finish social situation and more complex problem that unpredictable

Reason why parents choose homeschooling for their children according to National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in 1999 are :

1. Parents want to increase the quality of education for the children
2. Religious reason
3. Surroundings when children studying at school
4. Parents often moving or make a journey
5. Parents feel that safety and relationship at school is not good for children development
6. Parents want to be close with their children
7. Parents feel if the fee for good school is more expensive and not reach again
8. Children have special needs that can't be fulfill in general school
9. Parents have believe that the system that already exist can not support family values that hold
10. Parents feel to be called to educate their children