It is important to protect your child from the following disadvantages of online education.
Absence of social skills
We will not know it but we probably have learnt all about social interaction at school. The lessons that we learnt when we first
spoke in public
made our first presentation
received our first public rebuke and
won our first competitive price
stay with us for the rest of our lives.
If you conclude that online learning is the only way to proceed, chances are high that your child will miss out on all these important lessons. Dealing with authority is very important. When your child works in a group with a single student as a leader, he or she will know what competitive teamwork is all about. No child ever submits to the authority of any other individual, an adult or another child.
In such a scenario, teaching your child how to fight and be political without damaging the crew is very important. Having not learnt these lessons in high school when you are part of your first debating society or drama society? Does online learning have any solution to this lacuna? Can it help people interact with each other and enjoy better interpersonal relations?
Another complication involving online education is the lack of credibility of information available online. Creating a classroom where instructions are passed on through the internet does not offer numerous advantages.
The only good thing coming out of such a move will be that your child will study from home instead of going to school. As has been proved about, that is not necessarily be a good thing. If your child is expected to do research on its own on the internet, chances are high that it will end up relying on useless bits of information stated in an authoritative manner.