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Re:Homeschooling Hits Record Numbers by JKCalhoun on Friday November 21, 2025 @02:38PM (#46008092)
Interesting point. I know of one home-schooling family—and the wife quit her career to homeschool.

Is this family well off financially? Of course they are. I suspect the data on homeschoolers is going to reflect a generally affluent slant.

Re:Homeschooling Hits Record Numbers by gred on Friday November 21, 2025 @02:49PM (#46008184)
Anecdotally, I know of one child who was homeschooled recently. The mother is a single mother, of modest middle-class means. There was a homeschooling group nearby with a few volunteer mothers handling most of the logistics and teaching. This particular mother did not have to give up her job. It does stretch the definition of "homeschooling" a bit when it's a neighbor teaching in a neighbor's home, but they made it work.
Re:Homeschooling Hits Record Numbers by ryandrake on Friday November 21, 2025 @05:36PM (#46009852)
Yea, that does stretch it. At some point, it becomes less "homeschooling" and more "an unlicensed private school." Uber for Schools?