That’s pretty interesting. Did you have any issues...adapting, I guess, to homework?
I was HS’d, too, but we did full days and I had homework (usually studying for tests), but I’m not afraid of rethinking how I did things for my own kids. Different HS experiences are fascinating to me.
No problems at all. By the later years - 6th grade or so on - we had pretty much gone to something closer to a tutoring setup than a traditional "class" style. My mom homeschooled up to 6 kids at a time, all different ages, so she's plan out what we'd do for a week or a month, depending on our age. Then every day she'd keep us on track, check our work, help with things we needed help with, but we used a lot of very self-directed curriculum. Like Saxon Math - a bite sized lesson every day that we'd learn alone or with help from Mom, then 30 practice problems. Some people would call that "homework"; I don't believe there was a distinction. The real key was not having class time and then separate work time. What a waste that would have been!
I started calculus classes at the local community college when I was 15, had no trouble adjusting, nor have any of my younger siblings thus far. And since #6 just got his full ride for nursing school lined up, well, that's not a bad record.
My husband's homeschool experiences are different than mine and we like brainstorming what we'll do with our little girl. Probably end up with some things like he did, some like I did, and some out of left field. But I'm a firm believer in the short school days for the younger years. I want my daughter to have the hours to read, or play legos, or learn to bake, that I had.
All of my homeschoolers finished all college general requirements by the age of 15, and two finished B.S. degrees in mathematics by the age of 18. The oldest was equally successful by attend college part-time, working, traveling, and participating in a sport. He recently earned a masters in accounting at an age typical of the general population.