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home school, n. Educ.
Brit. |ˈhəʊm ˌskuːl|, U.S. |ˈhoʊm ˌskul|
[‹ home n.1 + school n.1]
1. A school located in a private home; the fact of educating children, esp. one's own, in the home.
1850E. E. Hale & L. P. Hale Margaret Percival in Amer. xxxiv. 240 Margaret saw that she had interrupted a sort of home school. She begged them to go on, saying that she was used to that duty herself, at home. 1879W. W. Fowler Woman on Amer. Frontier xxi. 506 There was no ‘cramming’ in that home-school; each item of knowledge was well absorbed and assimilated, for the mother's toils made the intervals long between the lessons. 1923Times 17 Jan. 13/5 The great system which she [sc. Charlotte Mason] evolved of ‘home schools’, with many hundreds of children and governesses widely separated in space..working through the same syllabuses. 1979Washington Post 30 Oct. c5 These parents are reluctant to talk about their home schools, because they don't want to tip the legal scales and force an investigation for even stricter school-attendance laws. 1991Sassy Aug. 82/3 Roxanna decided to quit school and attend ‘home school’—meaning that her father and his wives teach her. 2002Educ. Week 11 Dec. 33/3 We would all love to see what our students' test scores or other more important measures of achievement would be if we applied our knowledge of methods to classes of, say, one to three students, as is the case with many home schools.
2. A residential school intended to provide a domestic atmosphere. Now rare.
1853New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) 11 311 It is well understood that absence from home is, to a certain extent, desirable in a daughter's education. The school is, as far as possible, a home school, and surrounded by home influences. 1868Times 6 Apr. 3/5 A lady wishes to recommend a home school where her daughters are receiving their education. Every domestic comfort is offered, with superior education from resident foreign governesses and English masters. 1893Standard (Ogden, Utah) 18 June 3/2 The Ogden Military academy is emphatically a first class home school for boys. The significance of the word ‘home’ is impressed upon the casual visitor by the courteous and affable manners of the cadets. 1925Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 18 July 12/3, I have seen these children far, far happier in a home school than they had ever been in their own homes. 1946Times 19 Oct. 7/5 She found in the little school of those days the opportunity for the full development of the home-school she believed so valuable for girls' training. |