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home-school

British  

verb

  1. to teach one's child at home instead of sending him or her to school

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

    1. being educated at home rather than in school

      home-school kids

    2. relating to the education of children in their own homes instead of in school

      home-school parents

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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