ABSTRACT
Independent school, better known as homeschooling, is now more becoming an option for parents in Surabaya. This option might be caused by the discourse that conventional educational institutions fail to fulfill children’s needs and see their big potential. This research uses a qualitative approach by interviewing three mothers in Surabaya who prefer to homeschool their children. The purpose of this study is to find out the important considerations of parents who choose homeschooling as an education system for their children and describe the success of this education system as well as comparing the outcomes of this education system with the formal education system in Surabaya. The results show that homeschooling is chosen by families since children have access to their respective course content that supports their family’s vision. Other than that, homeschooling is also designed to develop children’s uniqueness which parents can directly observe. Homeschooling, in addition, gives best practices for children’s character formation and knowledge preference. The emergence of the homeschooling phenomenon in Surabaya, which has also emerged in other large cities, could be an interesting study of the theory of Subculture. Where to be a lifestyle choice, and also can be a benchmark of a particular social class.
