school plus home ed?

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My DD has started secondary this year, and the school is not challenging her much. There is no setting, at any stage, and she is one of the brighter ones. There is almost no homework.
She can't move schools, so I am starting to home-ed her a bit, in the evenings. We're doing French, using a CD course plus Duolingo. And we're learning history by watching documentaries, reading non-fiction and fiction, watching films, and listening to lectures online. Today DD watched a maths lesson online. I'd also like to do art and music appreciation, and maybe a second language.
I've only just discovered online lectures. We watched a couple of short lectures by a historian at a US university today, Very very good.
I'm finding this pretty exciting. Finally getting an education on 20th century history!
How do others teach their secondary school age children?
Are there other people out there who are teaching / learning with children who are also at school? How does it work out?

I've known people who tried to do what you're doing, and found it somewhat frustrating. In fact, I tried to educate myself in this way when I was a teenager. The trouble is, school is inefficient and takes so much time out of a child's day that by the end of it she may be exhausted or just fed up with anything resembling learning. I don't know whether your dd is being given much homework at school yet, but it is quite annoying to have to spend time doing homework which doesn't really hit the spot when you'd rather be doing proper learning!

In the end, I managed to leave school early to go to university, which was quite exhilarating. That was one of the best decisions I've ever made.

Have you considered taking your daughter out of school altogether for full-time home education? She must have a huge thirst for learning to accomplish so much after a full day at school. Think how much better it could be for her if she didn't have to waste six hours a day before getting down to the good stuff!

I can't take her out of school, because I need to work during the day. Also, she wants to be at school, for the social side, etc. It's not a bad school, but insists on not teaching in ability groups on, I think, ideological grounds.
She is not at all tired after school. She has school clubs (sport and music) almost every day after school, and after that is still not tired, but keen to stay up till 10 doing other things. However, if left to her own devices would happily spend the time watching tv. She is finding the history interesting, though, especially now we've found out about online lectures. Is keen on the documentaries too. She gets almost no homework from school, whcih of course may change in the future. But we can be flexible with what we are doing, to fit around her other interests and her schoolwork.

Great! I'm glad the combination is working well for her and hope you both continue to enjoy it.