This is getting ridiculous....Homeschool. If both parents HAVE to work than start classes at 6 when you get home and go until 11 at night. Have classes all day Saturday and 1/2 day Sunday. There is going to have to be sacrifices and if money is not able to be the sacrifice than time is going to have to be what needs to be sacrificed. It can be done. Some will ask what to do with the children during the day.....well there are perfect christian families that babysit and perhaps you could find someone to do that and ensure that wholesome activities are done during the day.
I teach in W. Texas and there was an invocation in Jesus name led by a student to start the graduation last week.
As long as it is student-led, it is constitutional.
This ruling is ridiculous.
“This is getting ridiculous....Homeschool. If both parents HAVE to work than start classes at 6 when you get home and go until 11 at night. Have classes all day Saturday and 1/2 day Sunday. There is going to have to be sacrifices and if money is not able to be the sacrifice than time is going to have to be what needs to be sacrificed. It can be done. Some will ask what to do with the children during the day.....well there are perfect christian families that babysit and perhaps you could find someone to do that and ensure that wholesome activities are done during the day.”
Easy for you to say. Just kidding. It’s really all a question of priorities. If you love work so much, then junior is probably out of luck due to your long hours. If you want to live in that nice house, but with a 2 hour commute, then junior is again out of luck. But if you are willing to sacrifice for your kids (and no, living in nice house, but never being home is NOT a sacrifice, at least for the kid), then what you say is easily possible.
I managed to teach my kids to read by Age 4 and get them 6 years (plus) ahead in math simply by living close (and yes, that could mean a dreaded apartment) and spending my non-work hours with them (my wife is an immigrant and was not up to it). They even went to ‘school’ during the day, for daycare, of course. [ needless to say, I taught them real phonics and used Saxon Math ]
It is all doable...but not if you live for the Jones’.
No, you are wrong about the time. Think about it, kids are in school 6-7 hours. First remove recesses and lunch, now the time is 4-5 hours. Nest take that time and divide by the number of students, what you are left with is about 1-2 hours of actual instruction much of which is busy work. There is a reason homeschooler s do well, they are getting 1-2 hours of personal instruction one on one. The other stuff busy work and reading they can do independently. Many communities have 2-3 days a week where homeschooler’s get together for field trips, art classes, science labs.
A working parent can homeschool as well as a parent who does not have a job out side the home.