Actually, many homeschoolers brag about only taking 2-3 hours to do what the schools take 7 to do. So the observation that the kids don’t seen to work very long at schooling may very well be more typical than not.
I wasn’t referring to only taking 2-3 hours to finish your schoolwork. I was referring to the fact that the other poster didn’t believe that homeschooler did 2-3 hours of schoolwork a day. He believes they get no schooling.
Upthread I said that we are typically done with formal studies by noon. The kids then practice piano, read, play outside, build, do crafts. Formal education with 3 students does take significantly less time than a class of 20 or more. We don’t have to divide our attention, change classes, take roll, deal with bad behavior (most days) etc etc.
In our home we school year round so we don’t have to review at the beginning of each year. We take short breaks and keep plugging along.