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Ask home-schoolers - teaching kids is a time-consuming task.
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Ask away! I'm a home school teacher, this is our second year. Not as much time as you think. We start at 8:30 and are done teaching at noon. 3-4 times a week we do phys-ed which is a 25-30 km bike ride or two hours of swimming, downhill skiing in the winter.
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My wife and I read to them, help w/ math and spelling/conjugation drills, the occasional question on science, and push them to read books. We probably spend 1/2 to 1 hour/night on average
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You are a home school teacher too, you just don't realize it.
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school spends 7 hours/day
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US schools must have longer hours than ours. 9:00 till 3:30 is is 6-1/2 hours. Minus an hour for lunch and breaks that 5-1/2... assemblies, art, games, social studies, etc. leaves not a whole lot of time for the three "R's"
I have a niece and her husband are both teachers, when I said to him that I read that in school it's lucky if they had a child's attention for 45 minutes/day, he told that reality was about half that time.
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Even if a kid has zero parent help and is himself neither bright nor motivated, I think they should at least emerge from school with a basic level of reading, writing, math, general knowledge, etc.
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What do you consider basic? grade 6? That may have worked in the past when we had lots of good factory jobs, but most of those are gone. Many kids today do not know how to do basic math equations without a calculator. Ask a cashier at McDonald's or Walmart to make change without a calculator. I was at Home Debit and bought 10pcs of 14' baseboard, the pretty high school age girl on cash had to use a calculator to figure out the linear feet.