Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of homeschooling.
Skyrocketing unemployment is also bearing down on families, making home schooling even more worrisome for many parents and students.
2020 April 5, Howard Blume, Sonali Kohli, Rosanna Xia, Paloma Esquivel, “School from home is the new coronavirus reality. What will the next three months look like?”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Apr 20202 more examples
My husband and I had weighed the options then and considered home schooling, but we also felt that she needed the social aspect of traditional school.
2019 October 10, Natashia Deón, “The Hardest Part of Home Schooling Was the Guilt”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Oct 2019The cliche of home schooling still leans on the idea of a fringe choice made by fanatical parents who produce a poorly socialised child – if you said of a child: “They’re home schooled”, you’d trigger a knowing look that implied: “Say no more.”
2025 October 9, Emma Brockes, “I never thought I’d say this, but I now understand the appeal of home schooling”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2025
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of home school
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