home schooln.

1770 Public Advertiser 26 Jan. Mr. Arlington's Dancing School, late at Plasterers Hall,..is now carried on at his Home School in Beaufort Buildings.

1831 Constit. & By-laws School Assoc. Rensselaer County, N.Y. 21 The money-savings, and other benefits of good home schools, where parents can watch their own children with a parent's eye.

1850 E. 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.

1879 W. 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.

1923 Times 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.

1979 Washington 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.

1991 Sassy Aug. 82/3 Roxanna decided to quit school and attend ‘home school’—meaning that her father and his wives teach her.

2002 Educ. Week 11 Dec. 33/3 Classes of..one to three students, as is the case with many home schools.

1853 New 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.

1868 Times 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.

1893 Standard (Ogden, Utah Territory) 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.

1925 Daily 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.

1946 Times 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.