We are just officially starting home education of our children - my oldest would be starting school this year. But really it is just the extension of what we are already doing with them, and I hadn't returned to work yet either, so it wasn't as much of a change as 'going back' to home education would be.
We find that the children could easily be doing something for at least half the day everyday of the week if we wanted to. So seeing other children isn't the problem.
What sealed the deal for my DH (who wasn't very hard to convince really) was an article that broke down how much time children spent doing various things at school (waiting for their turn, packing away, taking the roll, listening to announcements, waiting while other students were chastised, etc,) But I just spent 15 minutes looking for to it I CAN'T find it. So my memory of it is as follows: it turns out only about 3 hours spread over
a week were actually spent learning, and there is of course no guarantee that any of that time is on your child's level or that that doesn't happen to be the three hours your children were sleepy or tuned out or what ever. So we figured it wouldn't be hard for us to beat that.
