Summer’s approaching, and if you’re like most American parents, your children have spent the last few months getting their education in the home, either by distance learning or by materials and assignments provided by their school. You’ve helped guide them through reading and math lessons, you’ve spent some time editing their compositions, you’ve encouraged them when they can’t get online for their scheduled hour of video lessons in biology.
Some of those students, and perhaps you, can hardly wait until schools reopen. Others—some polls say 40 percent of quarantined families—are considering homeschooling full-time beginning in the fall.