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RE: Compulsory Schooling is Child Imprisonment, Part 2
We have homeschooled our 4 children. Which for us means less than 5 hours per day 5 days a week. Most of the time they have gone to 2 or 3 day a week homeschool tutoring, with lots of homework outside of it.
For 10th grade my oldest went to high school, and is now dual enrolled at the local community college, taking college classes and getting high school credit, paid for by the county.
The difference is, this has all been by our choice in consultation with what our children want. It also gives them time to do things outside of school, which they love.
In my own homeschooling endeavors, I have found that it generally takes a third or less of the amount of time per day that public school systems see as the minimum to educate children. For us, it is usually about 1-2 hours per day, 4 days a week. Then our daughter has theater classes and Appalachian music classes once a week, and spends one full day a week in the forest with a local homeschool group, hiking and swimming, learning how to identify plants, track animals, and build shelters.
My kid is also an autodidact, like me. I've frustrated myself to no end trying to teach her something when she wasn't yet ready, only to see her teach the thing to herself a year or two later with no help and in a fraction of the time I'd thought necessary.
There is so much wasted time in public education! All those hours of being bored to death. All those busy-work homework assignments to repeat a concept that could be explained in a few minutes. All those times the teacher is too tired or hung-over to teach, and just puts a movie on. And let's not forget all those "group projects," where one kid does a ton of bullshit work while the rest just dick around and the teacher sits at her desk completing administrative paperwork.