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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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It’s been well researched. When you subtract lunch, recess, specials, movement between classes, and transitions within the classroom itself, it amounts to about 2.5 hours of time on task. I’ll look for the research later and try to post. And that’s for a class if 20 students. Reading time is often small groups so with s 45 minute time frame, your child might be working with the teacher for a third of that. Teaching a few Homeschoolers at a time is a very different structure. You might read to/with them and discuss books for a full hour. Phonics or spelling might take 15 minutes. Math might only take 30 minutes. Writing might take 15-45 min depending on age.[/quote]

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