Nope have never home schooled my child and never will.
I'm a home educator. My 10 year old has never been to school. However for the lock down she has been taking a long break. She has refused to work mainly as at the start of the lock down, I was ill, then the Easter hols and we were meant to restart this week but she seems to be working on union rules and is working to rule. Yes she reads about these things.
She is sick of the management (aka mum)
Our normal day is 2 or 3 hours of education spread out or nothing all day and something done in the evening, sometimes she opens a book at 10pm.
So yes we are those home edders who maintain an education, on a few hours per day basis. Usually we do days out etc so work would be done another time for that. Its very unstructured.
But school thrives on structure and standardisation because they have so many children to teach. I have 2 children but one just does online courses that interest her, as has finished education and then been left as has autism but nothing in this area to let her do anything. Not able to get a job due to her autism but is bright and engaged yet lacking comprehension, impulsive, lacking common sense and easily overwhelmed by sensory overload, prone to melt downs etc. She also has add.
So only 1 child to help to learn. I say help to learn as I don't do much active teaching except for maths. We have mostly covered English rules. So now it's all about comprehension and developing analytical skills in English. Maths is our most actively taught lesson. Humanities and science are more discussion based. Science is alot of reading and observation. She is past the type of experiments easily done at home. I have been looking for a science club for some time, to no avail.
I do do some teaching but more and more I facilitate, as she is getting older. But it was great teaching her to read and write. Watching how she rapidly got it, reading age of 13, at age 6. Maths well she maintains she hates maths but we do it more often than English this year, as she is so ahead in English. We have done so many topics and for one more year will do a broad range of subjects/topics and from age 13 we will start to look at gcse and btec topics. Will also look at vocational skills, some colleges take children from year 10.
She is bilingual. Unfortunately now divorced as my husband contribution to home ed was to teach her to read and write a second language. I will get her a language tutor as she is still quite fluent but she has forgotten many of the written language rules and I cannot teach her them.
But for now I'm slacking off more than usual, if she does an hour or 30 mins per day then so be it.