With as few as two families, you can alternate days to teach. With five, you can have a very efficient system (though the number of kids might be approaching difficulty).
You have a group BBQ / get-together every sat, which is your 'teachers meeting' to discuss the upcoming weak. You organize who has is better with which subjects, so the workload is easier on each parent. A whole week to prepare one day's lesson plan. You can all discuss and identify problem areas for each individual child, and work together for a solution as easily as a dinner discussion.
At this point, each parent only needs one single day of the week off to do the schooling. Both parents can work if they choose, and both can even try to get that day off, if you have close to ten kids or something.
It's an incredibly efficient system, with a great return ratio on time spent for the parents, along with great social opportunities for the kids and the parents. It brings total schooling costs to the floor as well, each family can focus on school supplies for their assigned subjects, or you can divide all costs fairly.
Up till now, there just has not been a critical mass of homeschooling parents high enough for this system to work in more than a few specific areas. With enough people homeschooling it absolutely could become the norm.
With as few as two families, you can alternate days to teach. With five, you can have a very efficient system (though the number of kids might be approaching difficulty).
You have a group BBQ / get-together every sat, which is your 'teachers meeting' to discuss the upcoming weak. You organize who has is better with which subjects, so the workload is easier on each parent. A whole week to prepare one day's lesson plan. You can all discuss and identify problem areas for each individual child, and work together for a solution as easily as a dinner discussion.
At this point, each parent only needs one single day of the week off to do the schooling. Both parents can work if they choose, and both can even try to get that day off, if you have close to ten kids or something.
It's an incredibly efficient system, with a great return ratio on time spent for the parents, along with great social opportunities for the kids and the parents. It brings total schooling costs to the floor as well, each family can focus on school supplies for their assigned subjects, or you can divide all costs fairly.
Up till now, there just has not been a critical mass of homeschooling parents high enough for this system to work in more than a few specific areas. With enough people homeschooling it absolutely could become the norm.