Does Home-Schooling Really Make Better Sense for A Child on The Autism Spectrum?
The COVID-19 pandemic made home-schooling a reality. Children began to study online from the comforts of their homes. Two years later, I see parents more than willing to send their kids back to school. Six months ago, when there were talks of schools re-opening, I had seen parents opposing the idea as their children were not vaccinated. Even today, children below 15 years are yet to be vaccinated. But parents are more than willing to take the risk and send their children to school. I guess they are fed up with online schooling and so are the kids. Online schooling can obviously never substitute classroom learning. Not only has learning got impacted in the past couple of years, the children have been unable to socialise with their peer group and that has impacted their emotional well-being in many respects. However, what came to me as a surprise was parents of children with special needs telling me that they would prefer home-schooling as opposed to sending their children to a p...