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?