According to the survey conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics, "the most common reasons that parents give for home schooling their children are moral or religious reasons, a desire for high educational achievement, dissatisfaction with public schools' instructional program, and concerns about school environment, including safety, drugs, and peer pressure-(Bielick, Chandler & Broughman, 2001, 10). ... Home schooling deprives children of real-life situations that develop cooperation, problem-solving skills, and interdependence with their peers (Reich, 2002, 57). ... Whil...

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Games activity can provide the division of able and less able pupils to be in the appropriate environment with peers suited to their ability level. ... However, factors such as gender or body compositional issues act as constraints, whereby pupils are less willing to partake due to self-esteem issues or feeling inferior to other peers. ... In addition, peer tutoring (Lou et al., 1996) and mentoring to help balance sporting and academic commitments (Rogers, 2002) are further examples of G&T endorsements received. ... Furthermore, peer tutoring can promote isolation, in some cases provoking soc...

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In these circumstances, there is little pressure to overcome the obstacles of learning, for exists a lack of sense of friendship, testing of one's insights against those of their peers, a desire to listen to others and assist them if necessary, a sense of cooperative participation in a shared endeavor, and knowledge of people's names, backgrounds, and interests. ...

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