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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are they in Virginia? In Virginia, there are no requirements for homeschooling. It could involve zero schooling.

Have you introduced yourself, brought over cookies? Are the children fed, safe? It might be worth contacting CPS if th children seem neglected.[/quote]

This is not actually true. Virginia has higher requirements than the other states with which I am very familiar, including a standardized test that shows "evidence of progress every year." The truth is, the level expected from the standardized test and the detail expected from the curriculum plan at the beginning of the year are very minimal. But expectations of children's performance are not much higher in public school. I am teacher and I am homeschooling my kids this year. They are 1 to 2 years ahead in absolutely every area, except those that are harder to measure (like history, for example) where, because they happen to be very interested and motivated, they are far far ahead. These are my own judgments. When my kids take the standardized tests, the results put my third grader at "above 12th grade" in math. That is meaningless, of course--like I said, they are 1-2 years ahead in math but my point is that the standards across the nation are extremely low.

I think everyone homeschools a little differently, but I choose to have a longer school day than most but with significant break and movement time. So my kids are outside and playing actively a lot. The littlest ones definitely get done in 1-2 hours, but as of third grade, I would say that my kids put in at least 3-4 hours of real work per day, most of it reading. I am always surprised when I hear about middle or upper elementary kids who only work 1-2 hours a day. I don't see how it could all get done? I assume people are referring to first grade. [/quote]

Virginia has two types of homeschooling.  If a family claims a religious exemption, then there is no oversight, testing, etc.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/students-home-schooling-highlights-debate-over-va-religious-exemption-law/2013/07/28/ee2dbb1a-efbc-11e2-bed3-b9b6fe264871_story.html[/quote]

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