How many people home school in addition to send their children to public school?

Question

How many people home school in addition to send their children to public school?

Answer 1

My kids went back and forth. When they got behind I took them out of public school and did home school with them. When they got so they were missing the social aspect of school they went back. Later, they struggled in high school so I brought them home for home school again. My daughter graduated! and my son only has 3 more credits to go!

Answer 2

  We have 5 school age kids.  3 are homeschoolers..2 are public.

This arrangement works out very well for us.

People tend to take "sides" on this issue...Homeschool is good--Public is bad ( or vice -versa).

I look at it like this-- The point is to get each child the best education possible-  through what ever  system that works best for each child.

Answer 3

Well I think probably a big percent of parents are forced to "homeschool" their children alongside to sending them to school. Why? There simply is not enough time in school to teach them everything so the Teacher sends home a lot of homework that parents are forced into helping. If they don't those are the students that tend to do poorly unless they are very bright students that are great at learning on their own.  

Answer 4

We did that when our son was in public school.  He spent from 7:30 to 4:00 in school and afterschool daycare.   His stepdad and I worked.  We came home at night to spend the remaining time for dinner, chores, errands,  and homework.    Along with those daily activities were church and sports.   Our son was not learning.  We helped him at night.   It was tiring and frustrating for the family.  

Yes. I think homeschooling is necessary for public school students to succeed and even with the extra help, it is not always successful.  It was not successful in our situation.   Eliminating public school gave our family time to enjoy life and gave our son a more efficient method of getting an education.

Answer 5

Do you mean they homeschool their children who are also public school students?

I have heard of "afterschooling", which I guess is what you are referring to-supplementing to challenge them, fill the gaps, or catch them up.

I do not do that-my children are homeschooled full time.  While I suppose it is better for those children than not getting that supplementing, imagine how burnt out they must become.  They have 7 or so hours of school per day, come home to get their "afterschooling" and they still have homework and studying to do for school as well.  

Homeschooling does not take a full day-those students could probably complete a full days worth of lessons in the time spent afterschooling and completing homework, and not have the 7 or so hours on top of that.