Do you homeschool and work full time?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know a couple families which have the parents split up the subjects or ages of children based on their strengths. The parents work full time, but they have set schedules that dovetail so that the kids are supervised and/or taught by the parent who is not working at that time.

I also know a couple families who homeschool 6-7 days per week. One parent homeschools 2 extra full days on the days they don't work, plus they do short mornings and short evenings before and after they work. One works a typical 9-5 m-f, but the rest have more unusual schedules.

I also know two families who own small businesses. The year round business allows the older kids to get hands on work in it all year, and the parents carve out time to teach other things as they feel the need. The other family's business is seasonal, so they don't homeschool during their busy time, and they just have the kids with them/work with them as age-appropriate.

wow that is not great

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Young kids don't need much formal schooling - if you have a bright kid, schools are largely day care.. Older kids can do online classes. It's not impossible, but requires commitment and $$ (though much less than private school).

Man whatever homeschool people brag about doing the bare minimum I just think there needs to be more oversight to make sure people are actually giving their children an adequate education

Your sentence structure makes me wonder whether you had an adequate education.

Yes you should always argue semantics when you don't have a better counterargument

Something something glass houses something something stones.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Young kids don't need much formal schooling - if you have a bright kid, schools are largely day care.. Older kids can do online classes. It's not impossible, but requires commitment and $$ (though much less than private school).

Man whatever homeschool people brag about doing the bare minimum I just think there needs to be more oversight to make sure people are actually giving their children an adequate education

Your sentence structure makes me wonder whether you had an adequate education.

Yes you should always argue semantics when you don't have a better counterargument

Something something glass houses something something stones.

Shouldn't you be busier educating your children? Too busy getting mad at internet strangers to actually teach your children.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Young kids don't need much formal schooling - if you have a bright kid, schools are largely day care.. Older kids can do online classes. It's not impossible, but requires commitment and $$ (though much less than private school).

Man whatever homeschool people brag about doing the bare minimum I just think there needs to be more oversight to make sure people are actually giving their children an adequate education

For kindergarten through first, maybe second grade, I'm fine with 12 to 25 hours per week, depending on the child and their needs... which doesn't count the plethora of music, physical activity, cooking and baking, art and other activities.

For older elementary and middle school, I'm all for setting an amount of work to be done monthly, weekly and daily. Working ahead is fine. Falling behind is not okay, not unless we dealt with issues (car, house, illness, injury, etc).

[Anonymous]

I know someone who did it. As a professor he had a lot of flexibility in his schedule. He taught them in his abundant spare time, kept them with him during his office hours, and had his kids audit his classes. Kids were HS age. They passed a lot of AP tests and got into great colleges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know someone who did it. As a professor he had a lot of flexibility in his schedule. He taught them in his abundant spare time, kept them with him during his office hours, and had his kids audit his classes. Kids were HS age. They passed a lot of AP tests and got into great colleges.

+1 I know a graduate school professor who homeschools one child. There are quite a lot of professors who homeschool. It is totally do-able, but a person must have a flexible job. My friend the professor works mostly 4-11 (or later, based on emails I get) pm and on weekends because grad students take classes at nights and weekends. My friend seems to schedule daytime meetings on the days her child attends homeschool co-op or theatre rehearsal. Her child is uber-advanced and incredibly social and active, so it seems to work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know someone who did it. As a professor he had a lot of flexibility in his schedule. He taught them in his abundant spare time, kept them with him during his office hours, and had his kids audit his classes. Kids were HS age. They passed a lot of AP tests and got into great colleges.

Why was the school OK with the professor keeping his kids with him in office hours?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know someone who did it. As a professor he had a lot of flexibility in his schedule. He taught them in his abundant spare time, kept them with him during his office hours, and had his kids audit his classes. Kids were HS age. They passed a lot of AP tests and got into great colleges.

+1 I know a graduate school professor who homeschools one child. There are quite a lot of professors who homeschool. It is totally do-able, but a person must have a flexible job. My friend the professor works mostly 4-11 (or later, based on emails I get) pm and on weekends because grad students take classes at nights and weekends. My friend seems to schedule daytime meetings on the days her child attends homeschool co-op or theatre rehearsal. Her child is uber-advanced and incredibly social and active, so it seems to work.

The academics I know work 60+ hours a week not just on teaching but also on research, advising, mentoring PhD students, serving on committees, reviewing other research articles (i.e. peer review), etc. How did she manage all that on 35 hours a week?

[Anonymous]

It's possible with older kids or parents who can alternate childcare.

My friends do. Their child goes to a performing arts conservatory during the day, has online academic classes midday over there, and some in the afternoon as well, and they help their kid with homework in the evening and weekends.

For some kids it works, for others it doesn't - depends on the reason why the kid was homeschooled and whether those reasons were actually addressed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know someone who did it. As a professor he had a lot of flexibility in his schedule. He taught them in his abundant spare time, kept them with him during his office hours, and had his kids audit his classes. Kids were HS age. They passed a lot of AP tests and got into great colleges.

Why was the school OK with the professor keeping his kids with him in office hours?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know someone who did it. As a professor he had a lot of flexibility in his schedule. He taught them in his abundant spare time, kept them with him during his office hours, and had his kids audit his classes. Kids were HS age. They passed a lot of AP tests and got into great colleges.

+1 I know a graduate school professor who homeschools one child. There are quite a lot of professors who homeschool. It is totally do-able, but a person must have a flexible job. My friend the professor works mostly 4-11 (or later, based on emails I get) pm and on weekends because grad students take classes at nights and weekends. My friend seems to schedule daytime meetings on the days her child attends homeschool co-op or theatre rehearsal. Her child is uber-advanced and incredibly social and active, so it seems to work.

The academics I know work 60+ hours a week not just on teaching but also on research, advising, mentoring PhD students, serving on committees, reviewing other research articles (i.e. peer review), etc. How did she manage all that on 35 hours a week?

Must be part-time profs. My academic advisor (professor and principal investigator with a research lab) worked 80 hours a week, mostly spent on writing grants for his lab. He didn't have a life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know someone who did it. As a professor he had a lot of flexibility in his schedule. He taught them in his abundant spare time, kept them with him during his office hours, and had his kids audit his classes. Kids were HS age. They passed a lot of AP tests and got into great colleges.

Why was the school OK with the professor keeping his kids with him in office hours?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know someone who did it. As a professor he had a lot of flexibility in his schedule. He taught them in his abundant spare time, kept them with him during his office hours, and had his kids audit his classes. Kids were HS age. They passed a lot of AP tests and got into great colleges.

+1 I know a graduate school professor who homeschools one child. There are quite a lot of professors who homeschool. It is totally do-able, but a person must have a flexible job. My friend the professor works mostly 4-11 (or later, based on emails I get) pm and on weekends because grad students take classes at nights and weekends. My friend seems to schedule daytime meetings on the days her child attends homeschool co-op or theatre rehearsal. Her child is uber-advanced and incredibly social and active, so it seems to work.

The academics I know work 60+ hours a week not just on teaching but also on research, advising, mentoring PhD students, serving on committees, reviewing other research articles (i.e. peer review), etc. How did she manage all that on 35 hours a week?

Must be part-time profs. My academic advisor (professor and principal investigator with a research lab) worked 80 hours a week, mostly spent on writing grants for his lab. He didn't have a life.

I don't understand how one can be "part time" professor unless you're tenured and semi-retired or an adjunct or have resigned yourself to never getting tenured

[Anonymous]

In any case, this thread is about full time employment, not part time employment