I knew a family who let the child 'home school' because he was being bullied at school. I don't know the specifics of that and if pulling the kid was appropriate, but his Mom signed up for a home school program online and the kid's responsibility was for 90 minutes of online time (done while laying down on the couch) and the rest of the time (literally all the other hours of the day he wasn't asleep or in the bathroom), he was gaming online. And then he failed at keeping even those 90 minutes sessions up and current and was kicked out of that homeschool program.
Homeschooling is only going to be as good as the discipline of the 'caregiver' over the student. You can't expect kids (tweens, particularly) to 'have' the discipline innately to succeed at these kinds of things. This is something developed through parenting.
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I knew a family who let the child 'home school' because he was being bullied at school. I don't know the specifics of that and if pulling the kid was appropriate, but his Mom signed up for a home school program online and the kid's responsibility was for 90 minutes of online time (done while laying down on the couch) and the rest of the time (literally all the other hours of the day he wasn't asleep or in the bathroom), he was gaming online. And then he failed at keeping even those 90 minutes sessions up and current and was kicked out of that homeschool program.
Homeschooling is only going to be as good as the discipline of the 'caregiver' over the student. You can't expect kids (tweens, particularly) to 'have' the discipline innately to succeed at these kinds of things. This is something developed through parenting.