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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

BTW you're totally delusional if you seriously think kids in public school get more than 1-2 hours a day of good quality instruction anyway. Between incompetent teachers, teachers needing to deal with behavioral issues, class admin time, transitions between classes, kids mucking around, class breaks, etc, it's probably way less than that.[/quote]

I honestly don't know, I have my kids in a small private school. It's a 6.5 hour day with an hour for lunch/recess/snack break. 
The remaining 5.5 hours is pretty devoted to either academic lessons or art, music, computer, PE classes, which rotate on alternate days.

1-2 hour of active teaching really worries me.

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I promise you that your kids are not getting more than 1-2 hours of instruction per day that's tailored specifically to them (i.e. explaining exactly at what they need to learn the material in the exact form they need to best learn it) even at a private school.

For anyone interested, this homeschool mom (who has had a lot of experience including at least one child graduating already) explains it better than I can and I think said roughly the same thing as I said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEfZMlt8i8E (Note: she is very religious, but many homeschoolers including myself are not religious at all.)

Of course you need to consider your child, goals, etc. We have very high academic standards (both of us have grad degrees from well respected institutions) but we also have highly capable kids. Others may have lower academic standards and students who might struggle more. If you have high standards, are shooting for your kids to get excellent SAT scores and get into a great college but they aren't naturally talented at all of the material or aren't intrinsically motivated then obviously you'll need to put in more time.

I think you also need to consider your interests and abilities. My kids are still young, but I'm really looking forward to the older grades. Advanced math is the type of thing I consider fun, and I'm also looking forward to filling in some of the gaps I have when it comes to subjects I don't have as strong a background in like history etc, if that's where their interests lie. But some people enjoy and are better suited to the lower grades and they may 'outsource' some teaching of the older grades. So much of it is dependent your particular family.[/quote]

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