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[quote=Anonymous]It's estimated that something like 30% of your child's day is spent in time off task. So if your school runs 6 hours of which 4 hours of that is spent in reading/writing/and math and almost a third of that is spent in time off task, that gives an individual kid in a room with 25 other kids somewhere around 2.75 hours of on task learning for reading and language arts.

Many homeschooling families do the more academic reading, writing, and math activities during those two hours in the morning and use classes, field trips, etc, for science, social studies, art, pe, and music classes that they are not counting into the two hours of schoolwork.

As for whether or not parents are qualified to teach their own child. There are obviously data points on both ends- some parents shouldn't be homeschooling their children for a variety of reasons, but there are also some teachers that shouldn't be teaching anyone either. There really isn't a ton of specialized knowledge that elementary teachers magically get by going to college and studying education that a parent who knows how to access information isn't capable of doing him or herself.

As for the original questions, I can see a parent wanting to homeschool their young boys for the first couple of grades for a variety of reasons - many kindergartens are not developmentally appropriate learning environments, parent may value more exposure to content knowledge at an early age, there may be religious reasons, they may have very slight special needs that aren't being addressed by the schools, there may have been bullied even if their neighborhood schools are considered good.

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