At home, parents can plan shorter instructional periods to match shorter attention spans. Home-school families' opinions of the public education system represent both ends of a continuum. Some believe that schools push students into formal learning at too young an age. Other parents don't believe their children have benefited from the trend toward whole language and developmentally appropriate strategies. Parents usually find that they can teach in fewer hours than the students would be enrolled in school each day.
Some families teach in the evenings and weekends to accommodate their work schedules.
Some teach four days a week, but work into the summer months. We do not recommend that parents home-school as a way to solve problems. For the majority of families, in fact, home schooling is not a workable situation. It requires major lifestyle changes that many families are not able or willing to make. Nevertheless, school administrators in our district have learned that our Home Instruction Program can accommodate many problems in a way that assures that the students' educational needs are being met.