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 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
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