Posted: 06/Nov/2009 at 6:45am | IP Logged

At our local school, they consider driving time part of the 4.5 hours.  For example, if the child is in a skiing class and a bus full of students drive to the mountain, they consider that hour of driving part of class time. 

Schools and classes waste a lot of time that homeschoolers don't.  They consider that part of wasted time class time. 

My child's learning does not last only 4.5 hours a day.  Learning is a life long process.  My children learned all the time. 

Perhaps this is wrong, but my goal was to have about 150 hours a year of structured learning.  That would be equivalent to one carnagie unit in my eyes.  But when my children were younger, I did not even consider the hours.  Junior high and high school is when I started to keep track of hours.  Only in high school was everthing document.  Don't know if that was even necessary.