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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^I’m not homeschooling my children because I believe in letting experts and professionals be, well, experts and professionals. Of course, I also live in Fairfax County, not Delaware.[/quote]

OP stated that they, and their spouse, are both professional educators. Im generally Not a fan of homeschooling (I feel kids suffer when parents who know nothing about educational technique, the topics they are teaching, etc decide to homeschool because “the system sucks”) but in this case, whats wrong with two trained education professionals homeschooling their kids? [/quote]

According to an educational consultant I know (neighbor), I learned that homeschooling is no longer just for uber-religious families.

For some well-off families, they choose home-schooling because their child is struggling in a particular school, or because their child is particularly bright.

In Potomac where we live (where houses are $800K and more), I do know some homeschooling families that do not seem super-religious.  And I suspect that they could afford private school.

See this article from the Wall Street Journal (Feb 18, 2016) "Haute Home Schools Designed to Give Kids a Bespoke Education: Some affluent parents are buying and building homes in which almost every room is a classroom—for everything from math to music."  (I did not include a link because I think that the moderator does not allow that for certain publications.)[/quote]

I know someone who has 7 kids and lives in San Francisco (a topic all by itself) and they homeschool.  They are not particularly religious.  They use an online program (K-12?) at home, and I understand it has accountability built in.  Mom says the reason they do it that time is at a premium for them, and regular school wastes too much time.  At home, the kids finish learning whatever was planned for a 7-hr day at school in two hours.  They then use the rest of the time for extracurriculars, museums, trips, playdates etc.  So it can work for people for reasons that have nothing to do with religion.

And I can totally see that. I work.  But if I didn't work, i fully believe that one on one, any first grader could cover the essence of one school day in like 90 minutes.  Imagine everything else you can do for that child's education during that day![/quote]

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