home-school
Britishverb
adjective
Example Sentences
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“I don’t want to make it sound like, ‘Oh, just home-school your kids and get a traveling nanny, and then you can have the whole cake,’” she says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
“The public school enrollment losses also reflect an enduring increase in private and home-school enrollment,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2025
One home-school movement has developed a package for families to build “a 200-year plan for family dominion.”
From Salon • Oct. 20, 2024
Its enrollment declines were exacerbated by prolonged pandemic closures which spurred some families to home-school or send their children to private school.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 1, 2023
Most people were cool about it, but more than a couple were not, and I begged my father to let me home-school for the rest of the year and then the year after.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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