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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 combination of private and home-school enrollment is over 4% higher than it was at the beginning of the pandemic.”

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

Declining enrollment levels, driven by a lower birthrate, rising home prices and pandemic flight to home-school and private school options, have complicated the class size picture in recent years.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2023

My voice drifts off pathetically, so I say, “I’ve been thinking that I should do some sort of home-school program.”

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen