My husband and I have successfully homeschooled while we both worked, but we were fortunate enough to be in situations where we had a great deal of flexibility in our hours, so we were able to arrange our schedules so that we had staggered shifts, minimizing the need for outside childcare.
With one-on-one instruction, we have found that we don't need 6 or 7 hours a day of actual instructional time. 3-4 hours a day to discuss prior work and introduce new concepts is really all that we found we needed, which was really good, because our son needed extensive OT and PT, which took up big chunks of his time in the early years. Finding ways to ensure continuous adult supervision during those times when we both had no choice but to work away from the house was way more of a challenge than the actual homeschooling itself. We do happen to live in an area with a number of large and active homeschooling support groups, so there are always opportunities to get together with other kids of varying ages and lots of activities and field trips that we can choose to take part in without having to go through all of the legwork of setting them all up ourselves.
It was really just way easier in our particular situation to do it ourselves than fight with the school system.
Last edited by aculady; 01/04/12 10:09 AM. Reason: typo
