Homeschooling Gaining Popularity in India

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Home work: Comfort of homeschooling

Fed up with the many failings of India's education system, a growing number of families are opting for the comfort of homeschooling. Taran N Khan reports

At age nine, Shelly Daruwala can quote Kipling and Khayyam fluently and conduct elaborate chemistry experiments in her kitchen. In the Mohamedy home, six-year-old Khadija rattles off complex spellings while her brothers, Suleman and Yusuf, repair a computer keyboard for their dad.

These children seem to know much more than kids their age? Their parents say it is because they don’t go to school. These are children who thrive in a world without syllabi, schedules, heavy school bags and vitriolic teachers.

Fed up with the failings of India’s education system and driven by the desire to give their children a unique experience, a small but growing band of Indian families is leaving behind the classroom for the radically alternative methods of homeschooling.

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