I’ll tell you, a LOT of time is wasted in public schools because teachers are trying to teach a classroom of 30+ kids with wildly different ability levels and learning styles and levels of motivation…
I regularly have lessons that take me the whole class period to go through with some students, while others will finish the work independently in 15 minutes.
When you homeschool, you know your kids. You know their interests, what comes easy to them and what’s a challenge, and most of all you aren’t bound by a school bell schedule.
Your kids can spend more time on what they struggle with and breeze through the things that come easy, and easily do the amount of work in 2 hours that a public school student does in a whole day.
In fact, taking the four core subjects (math, reading/writing, science, and history), and assuming that a kid working at their own pace might finish a public school’s 50-minute lesson in 20 minutes, that’s 1 hour and 20 minutes of work time. Add in breaks and allow for a little more time on a challenging topic, and yeah, you’re at about 2 hours.
This post implies that art, music, and other similar activities are not part of the 2 hours (he says art is part of “the rest of the time.”)
At my campus (middle school, so grades 6-8/ages 11-14) students have 7 classes in a day. 4 of those are the 4 core subjects I mentioned earlier. The other 3 are electives, such as art, choir, band, orchestra, etc., as well as elective advanced classes and remedial level intervention classes. Add in lunch and passing periods, and more of the day is spent on things other than those 4 core subjects.
So yes, you’re going to cover more ground academically in less time if you homeschool, leaving time for all the things mentioned in the tweet - especially opportunities for kids to pursue their actual areas of interest, rather than the “electives” the school allows. You have time for piano lessons or sports or art or whatever else they want to pursue.
This is why I, as a public school teacher, urge parents to homeschool their kids.
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