Or just get a good curriculum and follow it. You only have to be 1 day ahead on the lessons to teach. We're talking 6-12 year olds. You can read from the book, watch the videos with them, talk through your own experiences.
And its just an hour or two a day. Doesn't have to cramp your career at all. Or you can team up with others in your community, take a day a week and do what you know, leave the rest to the others. Now your child is in a group of 4 or 5, still manageable, still valuable to have the close attention of their teachers.
So essentially.......create your own school, use people in the community as teachers, and still call it "home schooling"? I am sorry,but I don't see it that way. And with most careers working as they are, if you spend 2 hours per day, you either have to give the lessons very early in the morning or very late in the day - both are horrible for children. And then you run into the same problems regular teachers do - when do you check homework? It will take you non-trivial amount of time which you don't have if you work full time.
School requires a structure, a time and place and schedule or its easy to get off track. So sure, create a school.
Very early in the morning is a great way to start the day. Young kids are never brighter than in the early morning.
If its not worth the effort to work full-time and add in home-schooling, then I'm sorry but it may not work for you. It sure does work easier if somebody in the household works part-time. I should say, works outside the home part-time, and works in the home part-time. Because the more you put into it, the more you get out.
It depends on the weight you give your kids in your life I guess. And the condition of your local schools. Maybe its not a problem where you are.
But if your schools are not the best, its a tragedy to consign your valuable child to a 6-year sentence in a rough environment. With a half-strength education and a poor start to life.
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Or just get a good curriculum and follow it. You only have to be 1 day ahead on the lessons to teach. We're talking 6-12 year olds. You can read from the book, watch the videos with them, talk through your own experiences.
And its just an hour or two a day. Doesn't have to cramp your career at all. Or you can team up with others in your community, take a day a week and do what you know, leave the rest to the others. Now your child is in a group of 4 or 5, still manageable, still valuable to have the close attention of their teachers.
So essentially.......create your own school, use people in the community as teachers, and still call it "home schooling"? I am sorry,but I don't see it that way. And with most careers working as they are, if you spend 2 hours per day, you either have to give the lessons very early in the morning or very late in the day - both are horrible for children. And then you run into the same problems regular teachers do - when do you check homework? It will take you non-trivial amount of time which you don't have if you work full time.
School requires a structure, a time and place and schedule or its easy to get off track. So sure, create a school.
Very early in the morning is a great way to start the day. Young kids are never brighter than in the early morning.
If its not worth the effort to work full-time and add in home-schooling, then I'm sorry but it may not work for you. It sure does work easier if somebody in the household works part-time. I should say, works outside the home part-time, and works in the home part-time. Because the more you put into it, the more you get out.
It depends on the weight you give your kids in your life I guess. And the condition of your local schools. Maybe its not a problem where you are.
But if your schools are not the best, its a tragedy to consign your valuable child to a 6-year sentence in a rough environment. With a half-strength education and a poor start to life.