Home schooling in CA

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Originally Posted by Alex

I'm going to call bull**** on that one unless teacher is used only in the broadest sense of the word.

Of course I mean it in a broad sense.

I completely understand the whole higher math and science aspect. Not many home are set up for a chemistry lab. The home schooling families I know have a pseudo-consortium in which someone who is skilled in math teaches a group of 10 HS students higher math and another might teach chemistry, set up more like a college course (meaning two-three extended classes each week). I suppose that isn't home schooling in the truest sense of the word.

I do believe home schooling works best only up through the end of elementary, and perhaps through 7th and 8th grade, but that's about it. However, I know many in the arrangements set up as above, including a choir and one mom who sets up field trips, etc, and that seems to work out fine.