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Does anyone have experience with partial homeschooling? I'm considering asking the school if they would allow this for our DS6, and wanted to hear of others' experiences. I was thinking of hiring a private tutor for 1.5 to 2 hours in the morning who would instruct my son at school, OR keep him home with me for instruction until lunch time when he would rejoin his class. I'm doing research right now on the district's policy on homeschooling and I'm not finding anything that would automatically preclude us from doing it.

I would love to hear if other families have set up some kind of partial homeschool arrangement and how it worked.
Thank you,
Eleanor05

We are partial homeschoolers. DS8 attends school for Science, math and LA, then comes home for history, finance and chinese. I had originally asked that he be allowed to attend for two classes. His math and science skills had pretty much left me behind. The school told me that he had to take 3 classes in order for them to get credit (to get paid). It has worked out extremely well for us. He loves his classes, but also enjoys the flexibility this schedule allows him. His afternoons are free to explore whatever his current interests are.

There's a lot of variation state-to-state and country-to-country as to whether or not partial enrollment is allowed, or what it means if it is.

Sadly, we do NOT have this option at all in our state... it's all or nothing here.

It is comforting to know this is working for someone! I'm not entirely positive it's an option for us, but we are exploring an arrangement like this for next year. BWBShari, does your DS attend school on a regular daily schedule in the morning or afternoon, or does it change from day to day? Thanks!

Last year my son did 1/2 day at home and then 1/2 day at school...after Christmas he switched to full day school. He had been homeschooled for the three years before that.

It was okay and our school was very welcoming...but things would come up like assigning a social studies report and it counting for both a grade in LA and in Social Studies and being given time in both classes for it (but he was only there for one of the two classes and would miss out on time working on the report) and then some group projects she would find time when work was done in the morning to squeeze in time for the group to meet and he wasn't there to work with his group. Not that these obstacles couldn't be overcome, just you have to realize that for elementary school kids sometimes the classes aren't "discreet".

He attends class period 1, 2 & 3 every day Monday through Thursday for core subjects. On Friday, the school offers electives and he takes karate and chess.

He gets out of class at 11:45.

My friend does partial HSing. If you need someone else's experience, I can ask her if I can share her email addy. She is not a poster here.