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My buddy home schools their 3 kids. Him and his wife are both solo practice consultants/contractors so they'll sign on for a project and work 80 hour weeks for 2-3 months, then take a few months off. They alternate their work load and teaching their kids. They also love to travel, so it works for them.
They're very mindful of the social interactions tho. They do all the "core" learning in 2 days a week. And spend 3 doing social/extra curricular things. Cooking classes, gymnastics, soccer, gardening, art, music, what ever.
They're very much not a sterotypical "home school" family. My kids play with their kids about once a week and (i know im biased) but youd never guess his kids were home schooled if you just interacted with them.
Ages 8, 6, and 5
I mean, don't get me wrong, I am all for non-traditional education, but I also know that each person learns different things at a different rate, and there's also a social component to attending school with people and seeing them on a regular basis that is incredibly difficult to recreate with homeschooling.
Like if I have my druthers, I will probably at the very least put my kids into a Montessori should I get to have any.
But it depends on their temperament.
I was a very motivated self learner. I read multiple encyclopedias, I would read our schoolbooks before the school year even started. So I never really had to put any effort in because I already knew all of the information and classes simply served as a refresher to help the information set in.
If my theoretical future child is similar, then a Montessori would be great for them because it would create an environment that would help them learn the information they are interested in learning while they're interested in learning it instead of forcing them to go at the pace of a public school.
But the only way I would homeschool would be if I, I don't know, won the lottery or something and had the time and inclination to ensure that my child had every single advantage affordable to them, afforded to them.
They acknowledge that. All their extra curricular activities are at the same place (a facility dedicated to non traditional schooling) so they see the same people and have those social interactions.
As for your "win the lottery comment," theyve both established themselves as reputable in their fields and have basically given people the "fuck you i dont want to do this" rate for their projects. And they get fucking paid. Each of them makes more in 3 months than most make in a year doing a project theyre not passionate about, hence the down time right after. They have also strategically included "% of sales" in their contracts, so they continue to get paid after their done working.