An open operating model for accredited homeschooling
One family, one accredited programme, documented in the open — the method, the measured hours, and the grades as they come. Plus a free tool to check your own week.
The number most people have never seen
US public school teachers of grades 1–4 report these weekly instructional hours to the federal Schools and Staffing Survey:
| Core instruction | 21.8 hrs/week |
|---|---|
| Length of the student school week | 32.1 hrs/week |
| Not core instruction | 10.3 hrs/week — about a third |
Transitions, attendance, lining up, assemblies, and the overhead of moving twenty-five children through a building. It is why a homeschool day that looks short can cover the same ground — and why “we only did four hours” is not the admission it feels like.
What this site is
A working record of one accredited homeschool programme, published as it runs. The student is a single parent’s daughter in upper elementary, enrolled in an accredited video curriculum that grades her work independently. She is never named here.
What gets published
- The method — every document, rule and generator, free to copy
- The hours — logged daily, not estimated
- The grades — subject averages each grading period, marked by the accrediting body rather than by the parent
- The failures — including the ones that look bad
Measures were fixed in advance, so there is nothing to select after the fact.
What this does not claim
Not that homeschooling produces better results than school. One student, no control group. The research does not establish that in either direction — and that includes the leading pro-homeschooling research body, which states plainly that the study designs used to date do not show homeschooling causes the outcomes they report.
Anyone selling you certainty on that question is selling you something. The honest question is not whether homeschooling is better. It is whether you can run the operation — and that one is answerable, which is what this site is for.
Read the method
- Operating model — roles, and the line between house rules and the curriculum's rules
- Daily packet architecture — what gets printed each day and why
- Metrics that are tracked but never graded
- Time and coverage — the measured hours, in full
- Claims and limits — what is claimed, and what gets reported
- Privacy rules — why the student is never identified