Why Homeschooling Is More Cost-Effective Than Regular School

What if the government had more money, like a lot of extra money, and they could use it to develop anything other than schools? After all, online education would bring in more money for the government and council. Even though the money you would save on gas would be little and £6,000 is a significant sum of money, relative to American prices, it would be more money for you personally if you lived in the UK. The amount you would save in America would be enormous since the typical college education there costs over $20,000, which is the equivalent of some people’s complete salaries. Private institutions cost slightly more than twice at roughly $47,000, which is an insane sum for anybody, wealthy or poor. When students are in class, the temperature should be set around 18 degrees because if it’s too cold, their metabolism will strive to keep them warm, which makes the students weary and hungry. Heating and lighting costs the most money. Lighting is a huge energy and financial waster. A US school district spends $6,000,000,000 (yeah, that’s a lot of zeros) on energy, which could easily be reduced by using sunlight instead of lights during the day. Considering that it would only be dark at night when you were in school during the winter, lights shouldn’t be used very frequently. However, if you were receiving your education at home, you would have the freedom to decide how much money you wanted to spend when turning on lights. Not having to drive or take a bus to school would also save a lot of money for the people who own the car and the government, as some I would assume most people who get a free bus to school obviously don’t pay for it, but the government and schools do paying for gasoline or diesel for millions of busses all over the world. If this money was put into something else like buying computers for all the students who can’t afford one, that would be much more beneficial.

Since fewer kids would be using buses or cars to school, online education would also reduce the amount of vehicle pollution. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that this would have amazing effects on the environment. A significant hole in the ozone layer has finally been closed, and many factories were shut down, which also had a remarkable impact on pollution. However, cars were one of the biggest polluters and have been completely stopped for about 3 months. One of the biggest reasons I support making online education permanent is the great environment that would result from having just half the automobiles on the road. The air would be much cleaner, and there would be an endless amount of positive consequences on the globe. There have been some significant changes made to the air since lockdown began. Imagine if this was normal and online education didn’t give us the full effect of this because people would still be able to travel and there wouldn’t be a lockdown because the air pollution in Wuhan has dropped by 44%. This is incredible, and it isn’t just happening in Wuhan; in New Delhi the air pollution has dropped by 60%. This implies that driving anywhere you like is OK. It also means that industries would be open and air pollution would return to its previous level. However, online education would still have a good impact on pollution.

Another advantage of online learning is that it may be more current since, unlike physical school textbooks, which cannot be modified, a word document or message can quickly be changed and have material added to it. Additionally, because textbooks are not exactly inexpensive—in fact, they are very expensive—lessons won’t need them any longer, saving some money. The average cost of a textbook in Essex is around £230 per student in 2013, which is a staggering amount of money to spend on something that could be given for free through email, which has reduced to £153. Yes, it’s less expensive than it was, but it’s still a lot of money, particularly if there are around 1000 students, for whom online education would eliminate the need for that and result in enormous financial savings. Online lessons may be more flexible for instructors and students since they simply need an internet connection. This gives students more freedom over their work and enables professors to stay in contact with them to check how they are progressing. Online classes improve communication because students can privately message instructors with questions they wouldn’t normally ask in class. This gives instructors a better understanding of where their students are in their work and improves learning opportunities because students won’t feel awkward asking questions via email or private message. If a student asks questions but still doesn’t understand the question or whatever they are stuck on, they don’t have to force it into their heads; instead, they can take the time to research alternative ways to answer the question online and through other channels. They can be as creative as they like in order to figure out how to get unstuck and continue their education.