How does a typical homeschool operate?
There’s no such thing as a “typical homeschool”—except that it is often the mother of the family who is the primary teacher, even though many dads are taking up the teaching of one or more subjects. Because homeschooling is a lifestyle that seeks to provide a truly individualized education, each family customizes its homeschool to suit the learning styles of its students and the routines and needs of its members. One family may hold class five days a week, roughly following the public school calendar, while another may hold school year-round, with a week or two of vacation days interspersed here and there. One family may reproduce a traditional classroom at home, while another elects to use a video or satellite curriculum from a curriculum provider. Still another may operate under an umbrella program, or participate in a correspondence program. Still others opt for less conventional or structured methods and do their teaching via unit studies or “unschooling,” the philosophy espoused b
