OPINION - Society
Why Homeschooling in Hong Kong is so Undeveloped For a myriad of reasons, Hong Kong’s education system is being criticized from all angles. A lot of parents consider that the system, with an examinationdriven curriculum, leads to an overwhelming workload. Whether these accusations are accurate or not, the result is that students are either pressured to work till late at night from a very young age, or, as they are in senior secondary school, have to attend extra-curricular tutorial sessions to catch up on their preparation for the menacing DSE public exam. Looking at this, some parents consider giving their children an alternative. Right now, a substantial number of students are studying abroad or in international schools.
So, it should be surprising that for the homeschooled students. homeschooling in Hong Kong State-provided data sets showed is such a small community. higher than average academic Homeschooling is currently a achievement test scores for the rising trend in the Western world. home educated. Whilst in the UK Right now 2 million students 48,000 pupils were homeschooling are homeschooled in the US. It between 2016-17, the figure also turns out that “Homeschooling in Hong homeschooled kids tend to do better Kong might be seeds academically than sowed in bad fields” school kids. In the peer-reviewed Journal of School Choice published is growing exponentially. By at the end of 2017, 14 peercomparison Hong Kong’s reviewed quantitative studies education bureau revealed that for inclusion for the topic of in 2014 there were only 25 cases academic achievement was of families ‘likely to be able to conducted. In 11 of the 14 peerprovide children with all-round reviewed studies on academic education’, and thus legally achievement, there was a definite homeschooling. The number has positive effect on achievement risen recently, according to the SCMP. In 2018 it ranged between 150200. Still, this was a tiny figure compared to the 56,000 DSE exam attendants in 2019, or to some 17,500 international school pupils. One reason homeschooling is so underdeveloped in Hong Kong might be due to the lack of support. In one sense, homeschooling in Hong Kong might be seeds sowed in bad 35
