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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can discount the findings however you want, but in the introduction, the author references several other studies that point to off-task behavior being around 25-30%.

When figuring out how much of the day was instructional, I took out time for lunch, recess, and specials, plus transitions, because like I said, most parents do this outside of the 2-3 hours of academic work.

Are you really arguing that 2-3 hours of one on one (or even one to three) instruction is really less than 4-5 hours of instruction with 25 kids, esp. When kids are coming and going to ESOL, Special Education, instrumental music practice, etc?

I've taught in the classroom, homeschooled, and had my child in public and for us it's definitely more efficient homeschooling.

Plus I can teach with a glass of wine.[/quote]

Im not discounting the findings.  Im quoting from her findings that 70% of the kids were on task.  Why would you take out time for specials as being non instructive?   Thats ridiculous. I'm saying that:

1.  You are far underestimating instructional time in school.

2.  There are almost always gaps in a home schooled kids learning.
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I don't think you are closely reading what I wrote. I took out specials because most homeschooling parents when saying they get their academics done in two hours are not including things like outside music classes, piano practice, gym or playground time, or outside art classes. I took it out for both so we'd be comparing the same items.

There are [b]always[/b] gaps in any education. It doesn't matter what kind. I went to a great public high school with a really good science and math program, but I certainly had gaps about world history esp. in regards to non-Western civilizations and the foreign language instruction was a joke.

What a lot of homeschooling parents are trying to teach is ownership for your own education and inquisitiveness about the world.

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