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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have nothing against homeschooling. However, I am not sure I could handle teaching my kids for 5-6 hours a day. [/quote]

If you're even vaguely competent, you don't do formal "teaching" for anywhere near 5-6 hours a day. Not unless they have learning disorders and/or special needs anyway (and probably not even then). In the beginning grades it's much lower, more like 1 or maybe 2 hours a day.

It's not until the upper grades that it starts becoming 5-6 hours a day of "academic work" but by then, most of it is done independently by the student so it's not really "teaching" for that long either. Maybe still an hour a day of actual teaching from you plus a bit more of grading and admin.[/quote]

This can't be true!
1-2 hours of teaching a day??! 
I don't believe you.
Homeschoolers are trying to fight the stigma, and this, well, sums up society's fears about it. Lol[/quote]

If it makes you feel better, my oldest is a couple of years ahead. (We work from the standard textbooks.) Youngest is also ahead but too young to really say by how far.[/quote]

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