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▪ I. home-schooling, n. Educ.
Brit. |ˌhəʊmˈskuːlɪŋ|, U.S. |ˈhoʊmˌskulɪŋ|
[‹ home n.1 + schooling n.1, after home school n. Compare later home-school v.]
The action of teaching, or the state or fact of being taught, at home, esp. by one's parents; education of a child by his or her parents.
1899Fort Wayne (Indiana) News 4 Oct. 4/4 Judge Dawson's mother..prepared him in his youth to enter college. After his home schooling Judge Dawson entered Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg. 1910Iowa City Daily Press 30 June 4/3 There is no longer any cradle to rock or hardly a baby to care for, no home schooling necessary in the presence of the modern kindergarten, no sewing to do in this ready-made age. 1958W. M. Cruickshank & G. O. Johnson Educ. Exceptional Children & Youth 534 Children who will never attend school need a somewhat different program. Throughout their long specialized home schooling, the teacher should focus on realism as the over-all theme. 1984Daily Tel. 9 Feb. 17/5 Home-schooling demands commitment, organisation and flexibility. 2002Ottawa Citizen 11 Mar. b1 The Ottawa school board has been unusually open to home schooling.
▪ II. home-schooling, a. Educ.
Brit. |ˌhəʊmˈskuːlɪŋ|, U.S. |ˈhoʊmˌskulɪŋ|
[‹ home-schooling n.]
Providing, advocating, or engaging in home-schooling.
1963Monroe County (Iowa) News 24 June 4/5 It may even schedule audio-visual segments of home-schooling programs for the half day of school which children will spend in their own library. 1981N.Y. Times 26 Feb. c1/1 Dr. Raymond Moore, the author of ‘School Can Wait’, in which he advocates teaching children at home until the age of 8 or 10, calls the home schooling movement the ‘educational issue of the 1980's’. 1992D. Morgan Rising in West iii. xxi. 412 In 1986, the district attorney in Santa Barbara charged two home-schooling families with truancy, but a judge dismissed both cases. 2001Time 27 Aug. 47/1 [They] learned just how powerful the home-schooling movement has become. |