When home-schooling, how do you exactly balance a career with teaching your kid?
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at
6:30 pm
I’m asking, because I’m thinking of home-schooling my kids if I ever have any.
But I’ll have a career, which would make me a busy man.
Would I hire a tutor? Could you have an array of tutors and that still count as home-schooling under the law?
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No. you cannot hire tutors to educate your child. It is not considered “home schooling” if this is done. As far as having a career, this would be difficult to juggle. You are your child’s first teacher, the primary educator of your child. You would want to devote full time attention to the education of your child. Especially if it is your first year home schooling. Further, more, you do not have children now. Seem like you have ample time to develop your career before having children .my point is children are serious business. In addition, educating them is serious business too.
The law depends on where you live. In some state you can hire tutors with very little if any restrictions, in some the tutors must be certified, and in others the parents must provide the majority of the “schooling” and can only hire a tutor for a set number of hrs.
Having a wife or significant other is the most reliable way of having the children. Perhaps you need to find a woman interested in homeschooling. That being said, there are people who work and homeschool. It’s tricky, but they manage.