[christianhomeschoolmommaof3]

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.

[christianhomeschoolmommaof3]

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[SoftballMominVA]

I've read numerous posts where homeschooling talk about finishing the formal school work in 2-3 hours and the rest of the day is left over for play.

That, to me, would be a big advantage of homeschooling over a formal school in terms of structuring the family day.

And I think that if there 100 different homeschooling families, there are 100 different ways of conducting school studies. The poster may just be seeing what goes on outside the hosue and not what is going on inside.