Definitely enough if you use your time wisely. Many, if not most, homeschooling families that have kids younger than high school age are done by noon, in three or four hours, even the ones that do online school/accredited. An hour Literacy, an hour Math, another hour for Science, Social Studies and the like. Sometimes Literacy and Social Studies or Math and Science can be combined as well. It would be four with foreign language but knowing Neysa, I doubt they'd learn one.itsyagirl wrote:Also, 3 hours of school work a day????? That's absolutely not enough, especially since she's not even there to help them out. This is such a sad family channel....
However, you have to be there, you have to actually TEACH them and make sure that they are doing the work rather than goofing off. A child on homebound gets six hours a week and is expected to return to school and keep up.
In schools, more time than we think is spend on switching classrooms, crowd control, discipline, announcements, listening to other children's answers/responses, listening to other children read, recess, lunch, snack, coming and going, getting settled etc. When you homeschool, you can eliminate all of the fluff. You don't have to give worksheets to 10 children so you can do small group lessons with 5 others. Subjects like PE, which are counted in school, wouldn't be when homeschooling unless you live in a state that requires it. You don't have to line up your kids and walk them to the lunch room, where it takes a while to even GET food and settle down. You don't have to do constant standardized testing and test prep, which is probably the bigger time-guzzler in classrooms.
Three hours is enough if you aren't Neysa.